B) Introduction
Learning Outcomes
At the end of Lesson 4, learners should be able to:
- use the words that are listed in the key words list and
discuss what they mean in the context of this lesson and their lives
- describe the information that is found most commonly
on food labels
- recognize if there is a healthy, or too high or too low
an amount of a certain nutrient on food labels
- indicate what nutrients are needed for healthy aging
Lesson 4 literacy activities
The types of literacy activities in Lesson 4 are:
- Reading exercise on “Understanding Food Labels”
- Fill-in-the-blanks with words from the above reading material
that are on the key words list
- Word search - to find the words that are listed in the
Understanding Food Labels key words list
- Reading Nutrition Facts on food labels
- Writing exercises such as working on Activity Sheets #
1 to # 8, and completing blank Nutrition Facts labels that are published by
the Canadian Diabetes Association and Dietitians of Canada. These are included
in this lesson, but more copies can be obtained from www.healthyeatingisinstore.ca.
Activities are explained further in the lesson. Facilitators may use additional
literacy activities to help learners enhance their understanding of food labels.