UKS2 English Unit: The Lost Happy Endings

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This fully-sequenced 15-lesson unit based on The Lost Happy Endings by Carol Ann Duffy and Jane Ray guides Upper Key Stage 2 pupils from rich literary analysis to an extended prequel narrative. Across the unit, children explore figurative language, mood and atmosphere, character perspective and theme, while developing key grammar skills in context including noun phrases, reported speech, modal verbs, subjunctive form and cohesion. Writing outcomes include a formal newspaper report and a carefully structured narrative that reimagines the witch as a good-turned-bad character, culminating in a polished, empathetic extended piece. A vocabulary-rich, creative and technically rigorous English unit ready to teach.