Improve student's reading comprehension and help them get started on the road to a life-long pattern of good nutrition, exercise, and grooming. Content is informative, yet simple. Activities involve using charts, graphs, glossaries, answering questions, summarizing, and more. Relevant, high-interest activities follow each reading selection and challenge students to: read for details, make inferences, find the main idea, find facts, summarize data, build vocabulary, draw conclusions, restate information, and make decisions. Nutrition is a great way to provide students with up-to-date information on the principles of good nutrition while simultaneously improving their reading comprehension skills. Learning to eat right is one of life's most essential lessons. After all, we are what we eat... our choices directly affect our health and well-being. Unfortunately, making intelligent choices is not always easy. From an early age, kids are enticed into a life of poor nutrition. There are thousands of fast-food restaurants in American, many offering toys and prizes with every meal. Fad diets fill the pages of teen magazines, television commercials feature sugar-filled breakfast cereals, and movie stars tell us which cola to drink. Exercise Just as a car needs oil and gasoline to make the parts go, the human body needs exercise. Exercise makes us feel better, improves our strength and coordination, increases oxygen flow, and helps to keep us healthy. The human body, just like a car, is made to move. When it doesn't, things start to break down. This easy-to-use book is a great way to provide students with up-to-date information on the principles of exercise while simultaneously improving their reading comprehension skills. Grooming Provides an excellent opportunity to teach good grooming habits while also improving reading skills. The highly-informative content is presented in a simple and appealing format. Comprehension is tested and reinforced through questions, summarizing, and using charts and graphs. Fun activities include crossword puzzles and word searches. A glossary provides a handy reference to all the essential words used in the book. This program is ideal for:
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