A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Funnybones by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. KS1 Fiction. National-Curriculum-aligned grammar, WT/ARE/GD differentiation, and ready to teach.
What’s insideThis complete English unit gives you everything for three weeks of high-quality teaching, designed to match the standard of leading primary schemes (Literacy Tree, Write Stuff, Power of Reading).
- 15 lesson PowerPoints — illustrated cover slides, success criteria, vocabulary previews, modelled writing, “big questions” (Bloom’s-laddered), differentiation tiers, plenary, and reflection.
- 15 differentiated resource sheets — Working Towards, Age-Related Expectations, and Greater Depth, with sentence frames, word banks, and writing frames.
- Complete teacher unit plan — unit overview, key themes, model texts, full session-by-session plans, key questions, assessment focus, and vocabulary focus.
- Child-friendly mark scheme — “I can…” success criteria for the final writing piece, ready for self- and peer-assessment.
- 3 weekly exit tickets — 5 multiple-choice questions per week, with teacher answer keys.
A repetitive narrative based on the ‘In a dark, dark…’ opening structure of Funnybones. Children invent their own dark, dark setting, hide a new skeleton character inside it and use repeating phrases for effect together with adjectives to describe the dark, dark world.
Grammar features (Year 1 NC-aligned)- Using adjectives to describe nouns (a dark, dark night; a tall, thin skeleton).
- Using repeating words and phrases for effect (dark, dark / down, down / and they laughed and they laughed).
Humour and silliness, nighttime and the dark, skeletons and friendship.
Key vocabularyDark, skeleton, rattle, creep, cellar, spooky, giggle, moonlight.
Format & compatibility- Editable PowerPoint (.pptx) and Word (.docx) files.
- UK English spelling.
- One printer-friendly A4 page per resource sheet.
- Compatible with Literacy Tree, Write Stuff, and Power of Reading planning approaches.
- Year 1 (KS1).
- 15 sessions over 3 weeks (≈45–60 minutes per lesson).
KS1, Year 1, English, fiction, Janet and Allan Ahlberg, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, funnybones
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