Reading Comprehension in Health Education

Health Education

Lesson Plan: Reading Comprehension in Health Education

Unit: Nutrition

Purpose(s) : The purpose of this activity is to research a fad diet.  The students must provide a complete report on the diet. Based on what the students read, they must take a stance on if they believe the diet is healthy or not.

Materials/Resource:

Digital technology tool

Writing utensil

Newsela

Standards Addressed:

ELA: craft and structure

“Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.”

Essential Questions:·         

·         Why do people believe fad diets are healthy?

·        What evidence shows the fad diet to be healthy or not healthy?

·        How can we provide our research to the community?

   

Focused Instruction (“I Do It”)

How will you: Make lesson purposes(content-language-social) clear to your students? Connect to prior learning? Ensure relevance and interest in the content? Model and Demonstrate? Notice what students are learning and still need to learn? Allow for student interaction?

-Clear outlined objectives aligned with the  curriculum and state standards and overview before assignment starts -Students will recall research skills discussed previously to find relevant and recent articles. Students will use skills to sift through relevant information. Provide previously completed work for examples. Based on student arguments, we will continue to discuss the importance of researching fad diets before we try them. Students will use the researched evidence to compile a debate stance and affecting argue why they believe their fad diet is healthy or not. Students must, create, compare, interact, and evaluate their peers.

Guided Instruction (“We Do It”)

How will you: Know that each student thought through and formulated a response to questions? Prompt and cue as needed? Allow students a variety of methods and modalitites in which to respond? Assist students in processing information?

-Through daily checks and monitoring of student progress. Students must provide evidence of their research. -We will discuss the key concepts of healthy eating when paired with exercising. -Students can use various sources to research articles (tablet, desktop, smart phone).  Students can also present their information in various ways (virtual newspaper, written) -Provide daily instruction, guidance, and feedback on their self evaluation.

Collaborative Learning (“You Do It Together”)

How will you: Determine the complexity of the task? Provide students with hands-on experiences and practice? Determine grouping (pairs, groups) for this activity? Ensure that students have sufficient language support to be successful in collaborative tasks? Hold students accountable for their learning?

-Based on student self assessment. -Students will have the ability to assess the facts researched by their peers.   -Groups can be formed based on a “mentor” student paired with a student who is struggling. -Students will use their previous knowledge and packet to apply the information taught before the lesson. -Students are assessed by the teacher, self, and peer assessments based on their research provided.