Questions and answers about food

Non-fiction

Read and choose favourite recipes, discover interesting facts and write question-and-answer information texts about food. Read and write questions and statements and produce recipes.

Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.

Unit 1 Core: Read and discuss non-fiction texts about food (suggested as 5 days)

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SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.

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Essential Text
Usborne Lift-the-Flap Questions and Answers about Food by Katie Daynes

Unit 2 SPaG: Read and write questions and statements (suggested as 3 days)

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SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.

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Essential Text
Usborne Lift-the-Flap Questions and Answers about Food by Katie Daynes

Unit 3 Comprehension: Read non-fiction texts; research information (suggested as 4 days)

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SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

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Desirable Texts
For Day 3: Where Food Comes From and Usborne Look inside Food by Emily Bone
Usborne Look inside a Farm by Katie Daynes
Where do Vegetables From? Where does Fruit Come From? and How do Animals give us Food? all by Linda Staniford

Weblinks
For Day 3: Information about foods and eating, Growing food, Healthy recipes and diet advice all from bbc.co.uk
Information about different farm animals from rspca.org.uk
Day 4: Binding single pages together from wikihow.com

Unit 4 SPaG: Reading and writing simple recipes (suggested as 3 days)

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Group Readers

Animal Recipes

Group Reader

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Essential Texts
Usborne Lift-the-Flap Questions and Answers About Food by Katie Daynes

Unit 5 Composition: Publish a question and answer page about a favourite food (suggested as 5 days)

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SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.

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Essential Texts
Usborne Lift-the-Flap Questions and Answers About Food by Katie Daynes
A selection of non-fiction books about food

Website
Day 5: Binding single pages together from wikihow.com

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