Tilly Book Study Unit - Foundation to Year 2

Teach a thoughtful, age-appropriate book study with a complete sequence of presentation slides, discussion tasks, games, worksheets, assessment and marking support. This Tilly unit helps Foundation to Year 2 learners identify wants and values, track changing feelings, explain a problem and response, and use words and illustrations as evidence.

Students discuss how pictures create mood, consider how memories can bring comfort, retell events in order and plan a short calm narrative. The mix of editable PowerPoint files and printable pages supports whole-class modelling, partner talk, guided groups and independent practice.

What’s Included

• 16-slide editable Tilly teaching presentation
• 22-slide editable quiz with 10 question-and-answer pairs
• 17-page unit plan PDF
• Feelings Change, Memories Matter classroom display
• Treasure Talk Cards activity
• Story Steps game
• Feeling Finder worksheet and answer page
• Feeling Evidence worksheet and answer page
• Big Wants and Wishes open-response worksheet
• Problem to Solution worksheet and answer page
• Pictures Speak worksheet and answer page
• A Quiet Moment Story open-response worksheet
• The Hidden Box assessment and answer page
• Five-level book-study rubric
• 55-page Preview PDF

Learning Focus

• Character feelings, wants, values and choices
• Story problem, response and message
• Picture, body-language and setting clues
• Mood and visual literacy
• Beginning, middle and end sequencing
• Memory, comfort and changing feelings
• Calm narrative planning and writing

Classroom Use

Use the presentation for explicit teaching and shared discussion, the display as an anchor chart, the cards and board game for talk and consolidation, and the worksheets for guided or independent practice. Finish with The Hidden Box assessment and the five-level rubric.

Formats, Answers and Licence

Files are supplied as editable PowerPoint and PDF. The unit plan is 17 pages, the presentation has 16 slides and the quiz has 22 slides. Answer pages are included for Worksheets 1, 2, 4 and 5 and for the assessment; Worksheets 3 and 6 are open-response tasks without fixed answers. This is a digital product; no physical item is shipped. Purchase permits use by one teacher with their own class. Do not redistribute, resell or publicly share the files.

Important: A copy of the picture book Tilly is required and is not included.