Health and PE literacy is essential for today's students, especially as obesity and the potential for developing diabetes later in life spreads across the globe like an epidemic. Understanding issues related to health and physical exercise and how the two go together is something that students must take part in. One way to do that is to have them read available and relevant literature on what it means to be active, healthy and enjoy a healthy diet.
Educators can help students to be healthier by incorporating health literature into their curriculum. As an educator, I can utilize the information on Shapeamerica.org to help my ESL students learn both how to read and how to be healthy. Articles form journals such as the American Journal of Health Education provides great insight for teachers and students about ways to incorporate healthy and physically fit exercises into one's life.
One way that I can incorporate health literature into my lesson is to have my ESL students read a newsletter or journal article on health. They will be immersing themselves in a subject that has a lot of informative value on how to be healthy and at the same time they will be tasked with applying their English-language skills. For example, they could be tasked with identifying all the adjectives in a particular paragraph. Or they could be asked to write a brief summary of what the article was about. Their comprehension skills could be measured via written or oral responses, and there could be a discussion in class about the article's merit. This would promote active learning and engage the students to interact with the text, the ideas about being healthy, and apply them to their own lifestyles. They would also be challenged to practice their English-language skills in writing and in speaking and they would be given points both for the clarity of their expression of ideas and the demonstration that they have understood the text.
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