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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

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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