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Literary and Nutrition Education
Priscilla Mathews
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CI 540
Content Area Literacy
PART 1
Introduction
Challenge
Goal
What, where and how long?
• I teach nutrition for the University of Illinois
Montgomery County Extension.
• My sites for youth nutrition include all schools in
Montgomery County Pre-K thru 12th grade
• My sites for adult nutrition include food pantries,
WIC, public housing, free meal sites.
• I have been working in the program area for the
past fifteen years.
Reading is…….
The process of gathering information and
knowledge through the printed word
whether performed aloud or silently.
A complex skill involving word recognition,
comprehension and fluency.
What is reading? An Excerpt from
Reading for Understanding
• Reading is not just a
basic skill
• Reading is a complex
process
• Reading is problem
solving
• Fluent reading is not the
same as decoding
• Reading is influenced by
situational factors
• Proficient readers are…
-mentally engaged
-motivated to read and
learn
-socially active around
reading tasks
-strategic in monitoring
the interactive
processes that
assist comprehension
Challenges and Goal
Challenges
• Student engagement in the
classroom
• Applying differentiating
instruction with nutrition
lessons
• Adult learners with
motivational and learning
issues
• Using prior knowledge as a
building block for making
better food choices
Question
• How can I increase
student engagement
and comprehension
during my unit on
healthy grocery
shopping?
PART 2
Key Concepts about Comprehension
Three Types of Assessment
• Diagnostic----determining what the student
knows about the skills or topics.
• Formative---carried out through the project
or unit and used to support the learning.
• Summative----carried out at the end of the
lesson to evaluate the knowledge gained.
PART 3
Unit General Description
Let’s Go Shopping
• Vary your veggies
• Focus on fruits
• Get your calcium-rich
foods
• Go lean with protein
• Make half your grains
whole
• Know your limits on
fats, salt and sugar
Let’s Go Shopping continued….
Food shopping will be conducted
in the classroom as we view
the videos of the different
sections of the store and we
place food selections in our
cart based on the theme of our
lesson…..
• Budget
• Healthy choices
• Nutritional restrictions
• Fresh (raw) or processed
• Improving our diet
• Portion control
Shopping for Fresh Produce
• Why do we need to eat fruits and
vegetables?
• What vegetables do you buy for your
family?
• How many servings of vegetables do you
need each day?
• Which vegetables are the best for you?
• Which fruits are the best in the spring?
Nutritional facts for fresh
vegetables and fruits
Fresh fruits and vegetables do not come in a
box or can. They are the best way to add
vitamins and minerals to our diets. The
following charts help us discover the
nutrients that our body receives from
eating fresh fruits and vegetables.
What is your favorite
fruit?
What fruit colors do
you find in this
chart?
Which fruits would
be the best for you
to eat?
What is an
antioxidant?
What do vitamins for your body?
What is a free radical?
What do free radicals do
to your body?
Shopping for meat….
• What nutrients are found in the meat
group?
• How many servings of meat do we need
each day?
• What is a serving size of meat?
• What kind of meats do you eat?
• How do you prepare your meat dishes?
• What types of seafood do you like?
Shopping for meat continued…..
• What meat, poultry or seafood dishes
does your family like to eat?
• What kind of things influence your choice
of meat, poultry or seafood?
• How often do you serve meat, poultry or
seafood to your family?
• How do you try to save money when
buying meat, poultry or seafood?
Shopping for the dairy
• What is your favorite dairy item?
• How many servings of dairy do we need
each day?
• What type of milk is the best for you?
• What dairy choices are available if you
don’t like to drink milk?
• What items are available for you if you are
allergic to dairy foods?
Shopping for grains
• What are some of your favorite breakfast
cereals?
• Which cereals are a better choice?
• What kinds of bread do you like to eat?
• Which breads would be a better choice?
• What is the difference between multi-grain
and whole grain foods?
• Which is better for your diet?
PART 4
Student Engagement
Interesting resources….
There are many web sites that are available
for learning about healthy eating. They
add games and interactive features that
helps each student learn more about their
individual needs and requirements. Here
are a few that aid not only adults but kids
as well…….
Part 5
Reflections
What I have learned….
This class has challenged me to look at nutrition programming from many new
and different angles. The food shopping videos will add a fantastic visual
component to my lessons. I have many new ideas for using these as my
classes work their way through the grocery store with a “shopping theme”.
I am quite frustrated with the formatting problems I encountered putting the
videos into my power point presentation but will still work with them to use
them as a powerful teaching tool. The many and varied ideas that I did
learn in the two short weeks of this class will be put to use and are
invaluable! I found the interaction from the instructor and fellow students a
very positive experience. Since my work time is divided between adult and
youth learners, I find that I need varied and flexible approaches to teach
health and nutrition. Technology is one area that I want to explore and
incorporate as much as possible.
THANK YOU FOR A FANTASTIC LEARNING EXPERIENCE!
Literature Review
Cognitive strategies that are helpful in
teaching students to become an effective
reader would include-activating prior knowledge, inferring,
monitoring-clarifying, questioning,
searching-selecting, summarizing and
visualizing-organizing
7 Strategies of Highly Effective Readers
Elaine K. McEwan (2004)
Literature Review Continued…
Schools need to provide insistence, expectation and
support for students in their learning environment.
Students need cognitive strategies, appropriate
relationships, coping strategies, goal-setting
opportunities and instructions. “The true discrimination
that comes out of poverty is the lack of cognitive
strategies. The lack of these unseen attributes
handicaps in every aspect of life the individual who does
not have them.” Effective responses by schools is the
development of preschool programs, reducing class size,
promoting projects of prevention and support and
supplemental reading programs. Payne (2005)
Literature Review Continued…..
Strategies for motivating reading and writing
include
1-Choice
2- Challenging
3- Social Collaboration
4- Allow for success
5-Involve technology and play
Family literacy is highly important—the success of
the school literacy program frequently depends
on the literacy environment at home. Marrow (2004)
Literature Review Continued…..
The ability to comprehend text is “caught
rather than taught”. If reading meant
catching a meaning known only to the
author, teaching reading had to mean
finding out whether or not students got it.
Keene & Zimmerman (1997)
References
Cziko, C., Greenleaf, C., Hurtz, L., & Schoenbach, R.
(2000). What is Reading?. The Quarterly, 22(3), 1-3.
Mcewan, Elaine K.. Seven Strategies of Highly Effective
Readers: Using Cognitive Research to Boost K-8
Achievement. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2004.
Print.
Morrow, Lesley. Literacy Development in the Early Years
(Book Alone) (5th Edition). 5 ed. upper saddle river:
Pearson Education, 2004. Print.
Payne, Ruby K.. A Framework for Understanding Poverty.
New York: Aha Process, Inc., 2005. Print.