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Food and Nutrition Reading Passages Healthy Eating Project - Food Groups

Rated 4.85 out of 5, based on 26 reviews
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Think Grow Giggle
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Grade Levels
3rd - 5th, Homeschool
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45 + Google Slides™
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These are very well written and make a useful tool for added instruction. The students and I both found them informative.
This resource was packed with information for students. The questions prompted great responses from students and lots of interest.
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Description

Ready for National Nutrition Month this March? Help students understand food groups, healthy eating habits, and how to live an active lifestyle with engaging activities that they love to complete!

Combine science concepts with important close reading strategies and nonfiction articles to save class time and present real-world reading opportunities for your students.

Students will learn and think critically about the different food groups, how to get active and live healthily, and the latest information about including dairy in daily diets.

Plus, engaging hands-on activities will help students understand concepts and motivate them to work hard! Your students will love creating a menu with healthy eating options, analyzing a food label, and completing nutrition projects like eating the rainbow! (see the preview for a closer look)

Included are 3, two-page articles to help your students understand how important living a healthy lifestyle is for children and adults!

Save 20% by purchasing this pack in the Nonfiction Close Reading Bundle.

Your students will practice gathering important information as they read science content in informational texts.

Close reading anchor charts are also included to help your students understand the text more deeply. Perfect for the whole group, small group, and science centers or stations.

This set includes BOTH a printable and a digital Google Slides™ version.

CONTENTS:

Link and directions to use the digital version in Google Classroom™

✓3, two-page articles with reader response text-dependent questions and article-specific activity

  • Living a Healthy Lifestyle
  • What's on Your Dish?
  • What's the Deal with Dairy?

✓What's On Your Plate art activity

✓Giving Advice about Healthy Eating

✓Main Idea Article activity

Bonus Activities Include:

✓Reading food labels to make good food choices

✓Vocabulary Check

✓Agree or Disagree
✓Make a Menu Project
✓Persuasive Writing Activity
✓Eat the Rainbow Chart and Activity
✓Favorite Food Groups

✓Healthy or No?

2 Anchor Charts: ABC of Why We Close Read, 123s of Close Reading

✓123s of Close Reading Graphic Organizer to use with any passage

Please see the preview for a more detailed look at all this product has to offer.

Teacher Approved!

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"This product is amazing! I had been struggling to find health sources that I could integrate into reading for anything other than getting those pesky health grades out of the way. This product is excellent!! The passages are informative, and greatly increased my class's knowledge on the topic."

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"These food and nutrition passages were exactly the paired readings I was looking for while teaching my Chocolate Touch unit to the children! They learned about the importance of healthy eating while discussing important points of view, etc. Thank you for such a jam-packed and incredible resource! My kids were SO engaged!!"

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"This was exactly what I was looking for to help supplement our nutrition standard. It had a lot of great work for the students to work on. They were really engaged. I really enjoyed this product and will use it again next year."

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Standards

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Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.

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