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Unit 5: Healthy Habits, Healthy Minds!
Book Title: Good Enough To Eat Author: Lizzy Rockwell
Common Core Correlations: RI Subtheme Correlation: Health/Nutrition
Read 1 Objective: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the text with prompting and support by asking and
answering questions about key details in text Good Enough To Eat. K.RI. 1.
Suggested Vocabulary: food, hunger, nutrients, protein, digestion, fats, vegetables, fruits
Conversation Starter: “This book is about food. We eat food when we feel hungry. Food has things like nutrients
and protein in it to give us energy and to help us grow. There are many different kinds of food. What do you know
about food? Describe some of the food you eat. How do you think food is good for us? Let’s read Good Enough To
Eat and find out more about food.”
Open-Ended Question(s): Possible Teacher-Scaffolding Response
What are the different kinds of food that we eat? Possible Child Response: “We eat vegetables?”
What are vegetables?
How do vegetables help us to be healthy?
Possible Child Response: “We eat candy.”
What did the book tell us about candy?
Why do think the book didn’t mention candy?
Turn and Talk: This book gave us a lot of information about food. Turn and talk to your partner about foods you
like to eat.
Follow-Up Activity: “KWL Chart”
Materials: Paper, markers
Description: Ask students what they know about food and complete the K part of the chart. Ask students what they
wonder about food and complete the W part of the chart. At the conclusion of the unit, ask students what they
learned about food and complete L part of the chart. (See www.littlegiraffes.com/nutrition.html for a creative way
to display the KWL chart!)
Read 2 Objective: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the text with prompting and support by asking and
answering questions about key details in text Good Enough To Eat. K.RI. 1.
Suggested Vocabulary: food, hunger, nutrients, protein, digestion, fats, vegetables, fruits
Conversation Starter: “We eat food when we are hungry. Eating vegetables and fruit helps us to be healthy and
strong. Food also has fat. Fat makes food taste good but too much fat can make you feel sick and tired. This book
gave us information about digestion. Digestion begins when we put food in our mouth. What do you know about
digestion?”
Open-Ended Question(s): Possible Teacher-Scaffolding Response
Why do we eat food? Possible Child Response: “Because we are hungry.”
Why do we get hungry?
How do you know when you are hungry?
Possible Child Response: “Because it tastes good.”
How do you know it tastes good?
What makes food taste good?
Turn and Talk: Now that we know more about the different kinds of food from reading our book, what new
information have you learned about food? Turn and talk to your partner about something new you have learned about
food.
Follow-Up Activity: “Finding Fatty Foods” (This activity is suggested in the book.)
Materials: Large piece of paper, pencil, samples of foods (bread, cake, apple, etc.)
Description: Rub a bit of each food onto the paper. Label the spots as you go. Let the spots dry overnight. Hold the
paper up to the light. Light will glow through the spots made by the foods containing fat.
Submitted by Therese A. Iwancio #217