Healthy Reading Lesson Plans
Would You like to Teach Nutrition and Reading at the Same Time? It’s Easy When you use Children’s Books!
Each lesson contains:
- Nutrition/Health Objectives: To focus instructors/educators on what each student should know, after taking part in the lesson.
- Suggested Props: Ideas for props that will help you teach the lesson and get students excited about what you’re teaching.
- Focus on the Book: Questions to ask students before reading to focus students on the nutrition/health objectives.
- After Reading: Questions to ask students after reading the book that focus on the nutrition/health objectives.
- Reading Activities: 1-2 activities to reinforce beginning English/Language Arts skills such as phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency.
- Nutrition Education/Taste-testing Activities: 1-3 activity ideas for how you can reinforce the nutrition concepts presented in the book. Link with your school or program foodservice director to provide these activities to students.
- Game Time!: A 5-10 minute activity designed to allow students to be physically active while taking part in a game that reinforces/supplements what they learned in the book and lesson.
Click Here for the Lessons that Go with These Children’s Books:
I’m Growing by Aliki
From Milk to Ice Cream by Stacy Taus-Bolstad
The Bicycle Book by Gail Gibbons
The Victory Garden Alphabet Book
by Jerry Palotta and Bob Thomson
