Celebrating Book Week Unit — Foundation to Year 2

Bring reading, discussion and celebration together with this complete Book Week English unit for Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2. Students explore why reading matters, identify characters and settings, sequence a story’s beginning, middle and end, recognise problems and solutions, retell key events and share thoughtful responses to fiction and non-fiction texts.

The unit works with teacher-selected picture books and early readers. Teach the sequence across approximately one to two weeks, choose individual lessons for literacy rotations or library sessions, or combine the display, costume activity, game and awards with a whole-school Book Week celebration. Supported and core character worksheets make differentiation straightforward, while the colour Roll and Retell game helps children rehearse ideas orally before recording them.

What’s Included

• 28-page unit plan PDF
• 20-slide editable teaching presentation
• 22-slide editable quiz with 10 questions and immediate answer or feedback slides
• Four-panel colour classroom display
• Book Week brainstorm, celebration plan and reading log
• Supported and core character worksheets
• Story map and story sequencing activities
• Roll and Retell colour game board and recording page
• Two-page book report, book review and non-fiction response activities
• Costume planning and Book Week memories pages
• Three printable awards
• Two-page Book Week Story Skills assessment with two matching answer pages
• Five-level rubric

Learning Focus

Reading engagement and purposeful book talk; character and setting; beginning, middle and end; problem and solution; sequencing and oral or written retelling; fiction and non-fiction response; and expressing opinions and recommendations.

Classroom Use

Suitable for whole-class teaching, literacy rotations, library lessons, independent response work, small-group support, Book Week displays, costume planning and celebration activities.

Format, Answers and Licence

Files are supplied in PDF and editable PowerPoint formats. The complete pack contains 70 pages and slides: a 28-page unit plan, 20-slide presentation and 22-slide quiz. Two assessment answer pages and quiz answer or feedback slides are included. This is a digital product; no physical item is supplied. Purchase provides a single-teacher, single-classroom licence; school-wide use requires the appropriate additional licences.