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Standard: Read with Understanding

Outcomes Students will read charts about nutrition, exercise, and caloric intake, practice vocabulary strategies and integrate that information with their own experience to create a plan to meet their calorie needs for a week using foods from each food group.

Classroom Information

GED Descriptors:
     Language Arts - Reading , Science
Roles:
     Family
Program Type(s)
     ABE, GED, Family Literacy, Urban, Rural, Corrections
NRS Learner levels (ESOL)
     3, 4, 5, 6
Time frame:
      to 2.0
Technology Integration
USDA My Pyramid

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Standard: Read with Understanding

Component of Performance	How activity addresses component
Determine the reading purpose	Students read and interpret charts to make a plan for healthier eating.






Select reading strategies appropriate to the purpose	Vocabulary strategies -- using context clues and roots and affixes.






Monitor comprehension and adjust reading strategies	Learners must identify the important information that each chart contains. Learners identify words they may not know the meanings of.






Analyze information and reflect on its underlying meaning	Learners will use the information from the charts to determine their physical activity level and the recommended calorie level per day.






Integrate it with prior knowledge to address reading purpose	Using the information in the charts, information about the food groups, and food likes and dislikes, students will make a plan showing how they could adjust their current eating patterns.

Purposeful, Transparent, Building Expertise

Purposeful and Transparent
To be healthy, adults have to think of what they eat, how much food they consume, and how much exercise they get. Also, on the GED test, students are required to read and interpret charts.

Contextual
Information about healthy diet, caloric intake, and exercise are important for our students and their families.

Building Expertise
Students get practice reading and interpreting charts and applying the information to their own lives.

Lesson Designer
Gail Morgan
Tolles Technical Center
(614) 877-9638
gailgmorgan@hotmail.com