The Shopping Basket Book Study

Build reading comprehension and narrative-writing skills through a structured study of The Shopping Basket. Across five lessons, students identify story structure, investigate character clues, infer a theme, retell and summarise key events, and plan an imaginative new adventure.

The unit combines explicit whole-class teaching with colourful hands-on activities, core worksheets with answer pages, differentiated creative-writing support and an original assessment text. Editable teaching and quiz presentations support modelling and immediate review.

What’s Included

• 27-page unit plan PDF with a Table of Contents and 26 resource pages
• 20-slide editable teaching presentation
• 22-slide editable quiz with 10 questions and 10 answer slides
• Story Toolkit classroom display
• Sequence Quest board and event cards
• Character Clues sorting mat and clue cards
• Theme Basket sorting mat and scenario cards
• Six core worksheets with answer pages covering story structure, character clues, theme, retelling and summarising
• New Basket Adventure planner
• Differentiated Foundation and Years 1–2 story-writing pages
• The Missing Picnic Basket assessment text, response page and answer page
• Five-level book-study rubric
• Preview PDF with selected unit-plan, presentation and quiz pages

Learning Focus

• Narrative characters, setting, problem, events and solution
• Character traits supported by clues from words and actions
• Theme and evidence
• Sequenced retelling and concise summarising
• Planning and composing an imaginative narrative

Classroom Use

Use the presentation for explicit teaching and modelling, the sorting and sequencing activities for collaborative practice, and the worksheets for guided or independent application. Finish with the quiz, creative-writing task and assessment. The differentiated writing pages support Foundation and Years 1–2 learners within the same class sequence.

Formats, Answers and Licence

Files are supplied as editable PowerPoint and PDF. The unit plan is 27 pages, the presentation has 20 slides and the quiz has 22 slides. Six worksheet answer pages, one assessment answer page and quiz answer slides are included. This is a digital product; no physical item is shipped. Purchase permits use by one teacher with their own class. Do not redistribute, resell, share the editable files or upload the resource to shared drives for other classes.

Important: A copy of The Shopping Basket is required and is not included.