Healthy Role Modeling in Language Arts Classrooms

1. Healthy Role Modeling in Language Arts Classrooms

2. Including Nutrition Education

3. Nutrition Education in Reading/Writing - Preschool • Storytelling through pictures • Gather nutrition-related books for story time • Use healthy foods to teach the alphabet: • N is for Noodles • O is for Orange • P is for Peaches

4. Let’s give it a try! • Compiling an Alphabet Book of Healthy Foods • Assign each person a letter of the alphabet. • Write the letter and draw a picture of a healthy food beginning with that letter. • This activity can be continued over several weeks until all letters of the alphabet are used. • Compile all the pictures into a book. • Have the class decide what should be on the cover of the book and then read it together! • Discuss each food and what food group it belongs in.

5. Nutrition Education in Language Arts – Elementary School • Learn the concept of sequencing. How is that food made? • Creative writing- have students write a folk tale about a favorite, healthy food • Create a class book about food • Healthy food book reports

6. Elementary School, cont. • Use nutrition concepts as spelling/vocabulary words • Practice alphabetizing with a list of healthy foods • Have students to prepare an oral report on one of the food groups

7. Nutrition Education in Language Arts – Middle/High School • Teach different writing styles: • Persuasive • Informative • Descriptive • Impromptu/Extemporaneous

8. Middle/High School, cont. • Compare and contrast a healthy diet with an unhealthy diet • Instruct students to prepare an oral report on a current nutrition topic • Have students create an ad for healthy food

9. Including Physical Activity

10. Physical Activity in Reading/Writing - Preschool • Ask for help from your local school or community librarian • Instruct students to draw pictures of their favorite physical activity • Letter scavenger hunt • Examples: • Find something in the room that starts with the letter “C” • Find something that has an uppercase (capital) letter “A” written on it

11. Let’s Try It! • Time for Letter Line-Up! cat

12. Let Line Up, cont. • Let’s try another example play

13. Letter Line Up, cont. • Are you ready??? physical activity

14. Physical Activity in Language Arts – Elementary School • Write stories or poems about their favorite sport or activity • Create a class book about physical activity • Have your librarian assist you in obtaining physical activity related books for students to read • Use exercise concepts as spelling/vocabulary words • Give each student a physical activity related word and time them to see how fast they can line up in alphabetical order

15. Elementary School, cont. • Sequencing/following directions • Activity breaks • Jump for Homophones • To, too, two • There, their, they’re • Its, it’s

16. Physical Activity in Language Arts – Middle/High School Talk/Write about it… • Write about an Olympic event, the most challenging sport/hobby they’ve ever tried, etc. • Develop physical education presentations for peers or younger students. • Compare and contrast being physically active with being sedentary. • Write a research paper on an unusual sport, high-energy hobby, or emerging trend in sports/activities.

17. Middle/High School, cont. …Then get moving! • Act it out! • Vocabulary Word Relay • Play “This or That”