Millions | Year 5 English Unit | 15 Complete Lessons + Resources + Mark Scheme

A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Millions by Frank Cottrell-Boyce. KS2 Fiction. National-Curriculum-aligned grammar, WT/ARE/GD differentiation, and ready to teach.

What’s inside (35 files)

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 (WT/ARE/GD), 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 two-part extended piece: a narrative scene in which a child character faces an ethical dilemma about unexpected money, followed by a formal discussion text arguing what society should do with unexpected wealth, using modal verbs, passive voice and parenthesis.

Grammar features (Year 5 NC-aligned)

• Parenthesis using brackets to embed a character’s asides, thoughts or additional information within a sentence (Y5-6 NC: brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis).
• Modal verbs (should, must, might, could, ought to) to express characters’ conflicting moral positions and degrees of certainty or obligation (Y5-6 NC: modal verbs).

Themes explored

Grief and loss, Money and its corrupting power, Faith, practicality and what really matters.

Key vocabulary

Ethical, dilemma, corrupting, parenthesis, modal, obligation, rhetorical, conscience.

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

Tags

KS2, Year 5, English, fiction, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, millions