Ish | Year 2 English Unit | 15 Complete Lessons + Resources + Mark Scheme

A 3-week, fully resourced Year 2 English unit based on Ish by Peter H. Reynolds. KS1 fiction with National Curriculum-aligned grammar, WT/ARE/GD differentiation, and everything ready to teach.

WHAT’S INSIDE
This 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 with illustrated cover slides, success criteria, vocabulary previews, modelled writing, Bloom’s-laddered big questions, differentiation tiers, plenary and reflection.
• 15 differentiated resource sheets (Working Towards, Age-Related Expectations, Greater Depth) with sentence frames, word banks and writing frames.
• Complete teacher unit plan: overview, key themes, model texts, session-by-session plans, key questions, assessment focus and vocabulary focus.
• Child-friendly mark scheme with ‘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.

FINAL WRITING OUTCOME
A three-part narrative about Ramon: his joy in drawing, his loss of confidence after a cruel comment, and his rediscovery of the freedom of drawing ‘ish’ thanks to his sister Marisol.

GRAMMAR FEATURES (Year 2 NC-aligned)
• Expanded noun phrases for description (e.g. ‘a crumpled, colourful drawing’).
• Subordination using ‘because’ and ‘when’.

THEMES EXPLORED
The courage to be imperfect, the encouragement of a sibling, art and self-doubt, the freedom of ‘ish’.

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 approaches.

Year 2 (KS1). 15 sessions over 3 weeks (approximately 45-60 minutes per lesson).