Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and define vocabulary used to describe food in a poem, a vocabulary word bank to collect and list vocabulary to use in descriptive phrases describing different types of food and a template to select and record vocabulary that can be used to structure a poem about food that can be eaten for school dinners.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore vocabulary words to use when writing descriptive phrases in a poem about some of the different types of food eaten at school.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to select powerful and descriptive vocabulary to use in poems describing different types of food and drink that can be enjoyed for a range of meals. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.