The Three Pigs | Year 2 English Unit

A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on The Three Pigs by David Wiesner. KS1 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 the National Curriculum for English at KS1 and KS2.

• 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 meta-fictional narrative in which a character steps out of the page of their own story, wanders through the white space, meets characters from other tales, and finds a way back into a story of their own choosing.

Grammar features (Year 2 NC-aligned)

• Expanded noun phrases for description and specification.
• Subordination using ‘when’ and ‘if’.

Themes explored

Stepping outside the story, The rules of fiction, Meeting characters from other tales, Freedom from a script.

Key vocabulary

Story, page, escape, edge, between, character, outside, ordinary.

Format & compatibility

• Editable PowerPoint (.pptx) and Word (.docx) files.
• UK English spelling.
• One printer-friendly A4 page per resource sheet.
• Aligned with the National Curriculum for English (KS1/KS2).

Year groups & key stage