Lob | Year 3 English Unit | 15 Complete Lessons + Resources + Mark Scheme

A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Lob by Linda Newbery. KS2 Fiction. National-Curriculum-aligned grammar, WT/ARE/GD differentiation, and 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 — 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.

Final writing outcome

A myth-style narrative of the Green Man — pupils tell the old story of how Lob, the spirit of growing things, came to walk in English gardens. The final piece weaves together description, dialogue (with inverted commas used for Grandpa’s retellings of Lob’s old stories) and adverbs that describe how nature stirs, creeps and uncurls.

Grammar features (Year 3 NC-aligned)

• Using adverbs to describe how things happen, especially how nature grows and moves (Year 3 NC: expressing time, place and cause using adverbs).
• Using inverted commas to punctuate direct speech, especially for Grandpa’s stories about Lob (Year 3 NC: introduction to inverted commas to punctuate direct speech).

Themes explored

Nature and the seasons, loss and remembering, hope and renewal.

Key vocabulary

Spirit, unfurl, tendril, shimmer, ancient, rustle, wilderness, remember.

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 groups & key stage

• Year 3 (KS2).
• 15 sessions over 3 weeks (≈45–60 minutes per lesson).

Tags

KS2, Year 3, English, fiction, Linda Newbery, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, lob