Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how to structure and format an entry for a dictionary naming special foods and a template to construct and compile entries for a dictionary using illustrations and sentences to describe types of foods.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compile entries for a dictionary to describe different types of foods that a family could buy when going shopping.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to read and write dictionary entries to define topic and vocabulary words about types of food that families could buy when going shopping, build different words using vowel digraphs and write and punctuate simple sentences. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.