Reading Across MyPyramid

Reading Across MyPyramid is a nutrition and literacy curriculum developed for children grades K-3. This curriculum helps children become aware of food and nutrition by reading storybooks with food-related themes and then participating in hands-on nutrition and physical activities.

Reading Across MyPyramid includes teacher background information, lesson overviews, several activities within each lesson that can be manipulated if necessary to fit each classroom, healthy recipe ideas and family letters in English and Spanish.

Reading Across MyPyramid is clearly divided into chapters that include each food group, making a meal, physical activitiy, eating a variety of foods and food safety. This curriculum comes with 2 booksets; one for grades K-1 and another for grades 2-3.

This is a very popular and useful curriculum UC Cooperative Extension offers. We have prepared many lessons for classrooms using Reading Across MyPyramid and the students and teachers love the healthy tastings that go along with each lesson.

Curriculum Booklist:

Grades K-1st Grades 2nd-3rd

I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato Gregory The Terrible Eater

Bread, Bread, Bread Everybody Cooks Rice

Tops & Bottoms The Ugly Vegetables

Handa's Surprise How Do You Raise a Raisin?

Milk: From Cow to Carton Cow

Green Eggs & Ham Mice & Beans

The Very Hungry Caterpillar The Seven Silly Eaters

Pete's a Pizza Nothing Beats a Pizza

Can You Move Like an Elephant? Hear Your Heart

Those Mean, Nasty Dirty Downright Germs Make Me Sick

Disgusting but....Invisible Germs

Feast for 10 Spaghetti & Meatballs for All