The Dot | Year 1 English Unit | 15 Complete Lessons + Resources + Marking Scheme

A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. KS1 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, reflection
15 differentiated resource sheets — Working Towards / Age-Related Expectations / Greater Depth, with sentence frames, word banks, writing frames
Complete teacher unit plan — unit overview, key themes, model texts (WT/ARE/GD), full session-by-session plans, key questions, assessment focus, vocabulary focus
Child-friendly marking rubric — “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 personal narrative about a time when trying something new led to something unexpected and positive, written in the past tense with adjectives to describe feelings and the conjunction ‘because’ to give reasons

Grammar features (Year 1 NC-aligned)

• Past tense regular verbs (adding -ed)
• Adjectives to describe feelings, and the conjunction ‘because’ to give reasons

Themes explored

Self-belief, creativity, growth mindset, courage to start

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 1 (KS1)
• 15 sessions over 3 weeks (≈45–60 minutes per lesson)

Tags

KS1, Year 1, English, fiction, Peter H. Reynolds, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, the dot