Toby’s Lunch Journey: Activities

Shared Reading · Year 4. An adult reads the questions and clues aloud. Children can talk, point, sign or choose an answer. For Jumbled Words, show the matching vocabulary word and build it together; children do not need to read independently.

Vocabulary

Read these five words from the story. Talk about what they mean.

digestion: Breaking food down into substances the body can absorb and use.
saliva: Liquid in the mouth that moistens food and begins some digestion.
oesophagus: The food pipe leading from the mouth towards the stomach.
nutrients: Substances from food needed for growth, repair and body processes.
absorbed: Taken in through a surface into something else.

Jumbled Words

Use the clue to make a word from the story. Drag the letters with a mouse or finger, or tap a letter and then a space.

Put the story in order

Drag the pictures into order from first to last with a mouse or finger. Or tap a picture, then tap where it should go. Use arrow keys to move a focused picture.

Tell the story

Retell Toby’s change of thinking and trace the main stages of digestion.