Healthy Role Modeling in Language
Arts Classrooms
Including Nutrition Education
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
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.
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
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
Nutrition Education in Language
Arts – Middle/High School
 Teach different writing styles:
 Persuasive
 Informative
 Descriptive
 Impromptu/Extemporaneous
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
Including Physical Activity
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
Let’s Try It!
 Time for Letter Line-Up!
cat
Let Line Up, cont.
 Let’s try another example
play
Letter Line Up, cont.
 Are you ready???
physical activity
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
Elementary School, cont.
 Sequencing/following directions
 Activity breaks
 Jump for Homophones
 To, too, two
 There, their, they’re
 Its, it’s
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.
Middle/High School, cont.
…Then get moving!
 Act it out!
 Vocabulary Word Relay
 Play “This or That”