Book One · free classroom resources
A complete classroom pack for A Broom Too Soon: six flexible lessons, pupil sheets, assessment prompts, inclusion guidance and all thirteen approved colouring pages.
Recommended classroom use in England: school Year 4+. Curriculum-aware rather than accredited; no formal reading age or book band is claimed.
Book One publication status: Book One is preparing for its Amazon release. Date TBC.
Choose the useful format
The complete PDF includes the guide and the colouring pages. The ZIP keeps every file separate for photocopying, sharing with staff or dropping one activity into a lesson.
Best place to start
Planning guide, six lessons, reusable pupil sheets, assessment, inclusion and safeguarding notes, then all 13 colouring pages.
PDF · 44 pages · 3.9 MB
Download complete PDFStaff planning copy
The low-ink planning and pupil-sheet section without the 13-page colouring appendix.
PDF · 30 pages · 156 KB
Download teacher guideAll files, kept separate
The complete and guide-only PDFs, six one-page pupil worksheets, the standalone colouring PDF, all 13 PNGs, a manifest and a start-here note.
ZIP · separate classroom files · 8.3 MB
Download classroom ZIPNo Sunday-night planning marathon
Every lesson follows the same low-prep rhythm: model, practise together, then let pupils try independently. Choose the route that fits the time you actually have. Here, “independent” means the pupil response after modelling; the source text may still be read aloud or shared.
Read aloud, ask one evidence question, finish with a prediction.
Add a modelled response and one pupil task or exit check.
Use the complete sequence, scaffold choices and independent outcome.
Six-session sequence
The sequence develops prediction, vocabulary, inference, purposeful writing, creative design and safe discussion around belonging.
Prediction · book talk · purposeful listening
Pupils make and revise a prediction using cover and Chapter One clues.
Vocabulary · morphology · fluent rereading
Pupils explain and reuse vivid words from Eliza’s arrival.
Inference · evidence · character viewpoint
Pupils track how Eliza feels and point to evidence for each inference.
Voice · purpose · planning and drafting
Pupils retell the crash landing in Headmistress Bramble’s official voice.
Description · oral rehearsal · art and design
Pupils design a magical companion and write a precise, purposeful description.
Discussion · theme · recommendation
Pupils discuss a fictional dilemma safely and recommend the story to a reader.
Designed for a mixed classroom
The PDF gives each activity an access route and an extension route, so support can change with the task rather than becoming a fixed group name.
Teacher read-aloud and short supported rereading keep decoding difficulty from blocking vocabulary, discussion and imagination.
Worked examples, visual organisers, sentence stems and oral rehearsal reduce cognitive load.
Pupils may speak, draw, sequence, annotate or write before moving towards an independent response.
Prompt, model and guide only as much as needed, then fade the scaffold so pupils own the work.
Thirteen approved pages
These are the approved Book One line-art pages—not greyscale book illustrations. They are inside the complete teacher PDF, inside the ZIP, and still available individually.
From a free sample to a class read
The free Chapter One sample and teacher pack let staff evaluate the voice, challenge and classroom fit before committing budget. The full story continues across twelve short chapters.
Why the pack is built this way
Curriculum links are suggestions for teachers, not endorsements. The lesson design draws on explicit modelling, guided practice, oral rehearsal, safe distancing and accessible print principles.
