Year 6 - The Watertower

Take your class on a tense and atmospheric writing journey with this fully resourced narrative unit based on The Watertower. Pupils explore how authors create suspense, develop character and build unease before planning, drafting, editing and publishing their own narrative endings.

10–11 fully planned lessons (60 minutes each), clearly sequenced from reading into writing

Rich discussion tasks including image analysis, prediction and role-on-the-wall activities

Explicit SPaG teaching embedded throughout (direct speech, adverbials, sentence structure, punctuation)

Author style-mimicking lessons focusing on tension, pacing and atmosphere

Models and scaffolds including teacher models, guided writes, planning frameworks and success criteria

Clear final outcome: pupils publish a polished narrative ending that creates suspense and leaves the reader unnerved