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Food Picture Kit: Literacy Activities

🌟 Enhance your teaching with 16 engaging activities designed to complement the Food Picture Kit and support cross-curricular learning in grades K–6.

Each digital activity includes:

🔤 A clear, one-sentence description of the focus (e.g., oral language, phonological awareness, writing)

✅ A teacher preparation checklist to help you get ready quickly

🪜 Step-by-step instructions for easy implementation

📄 Printable templates or worksheets when applicable

These resources provide flexible, hands-on learning experiences that build literacy skills and deepen students' understanding of food in your classroom. Focus on literacy skills like comprehension, vocabulary, phonological awareness, writing, and oral language, while connecting to food and nutrition themes.

🔔 Important: Order Your Food Picture Kit First!

These digital activities are designed to be used alongside the Food Picture Kit, which includes print food cards, posters, and a teacher guide. Once your kit is on its way, you can download and use the digital activities. To see how these activities align with your provincial curriculum, explore the Curriculum Connections guide for the grade(s) you teach here.

Level:

Grades K to 3

Grades 4 to 6

Language:

English

(Click here for French version)

Food Picture Kit: Literacy Activities

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Food Picture Kit: Literacy Activities

Activities Included

Making Connections ◦ Create Your Own Cards ◦ Create a Target Language Card Set ◦ Got Your Back ◦ Words I Like ◦ Poetry Potluck ◦ Rhyming Songs ◦ Mail It ◦ Elkonin Boxes ◦ Long Vowel Team ee – /ē/ ◦ Tell Me a Story ◦ Simile Introductions ◦ Food Pun Greeting Cards ◦ Writing Activity Bank ◦ This Reminds Me Of… ◦ Observing and Making Inferences Activity Bank

💬 Need Help?

If you have questions or want to share how you’re using the Food Picture Kit and these activities, contact us anytime at teach@dfc-plc.ca. Your feedback helps us improve and expand resources for classrooms like yours.

Explore the activities

Making Connections

Students explore the Food Cards. This is a helpful activity to complete first, especially before Create Your Own Cards.

Grades K to 3

Grades 4 to 6

Create Your Own Cards

Students draw their own Food Cards using the template provided to enhance the class card set. Consider completing the Making Connections activity first.

Grades K to 3

Grades 4 to 6

Create a Target Language Set

The teacher and students work together to create a set of Food Cards in the target language. Intended for after introducing the Food Cards in English.

Grades K to 3

Grades 4 to 6

Got Your Back

Students practise oral language skills by asking questions about the Food Cards on their backs.

Grades K to 3

Grades 4 to 6

Words I Like

Students create a personal dictionary page based on the Food Cards.

Grades K to 3

Grades 4 to 6

Poetry Potluck

Students write and share poems inspired by the Food Cards.

Grades K to 3

Grades 4 to 6

Rhyming Songs

Students create their own food lyrics for a familiar rhyming song.

Grades K to 3

Grades 4 to 6

Mail It

Students sort Food Cards based on beginning phonemes.

Grades K to 3

Grades 4 to 6

Elkonin Boxes

Students develop phonological awareness by segmenting spoken words into sounds.

Grades K to 3

Grades 4 to 6

Long Vowel Team ee – /ē/

Students use the Food Cards to learn about the long vowel team ee – /ē/

Grades K to 3

Grades 4 to 6

Tell Me a Story

Students practise oral language skills as they follow a sequence to tell stories.

Grades K to 3

Grades 4 to 6

Simile Introductions

Students take turns introducing themselves by using a food simile. This activity works well at the beginning of the school year.

Grades K to 3

Grades 4 to 6

Food Pun Greeting Cards

Students create greeting cards with food puns, inspired by the Food Cards.

Grades K to 3

Grades 4 to 6

Writing Activity Bank

Students use the Food Cards to inspire their writing.

Grades K to 3

Grades 4 to 6

This Reminds Me Of...

Students practise oral language skills as they share stories based on their experiences with land and place.

Grades K to 3

Grades 4 to 6

Observing and Making Inferences Activity Bank

Students use the Where Food Comes From Posters to practise making inferences.

Grades K to 3

Grades 4 to 6

I Want It All!

Get all 16 literacy activities in one convenient PDF for easy reference.

Grades K to 3

Grades 4 to 6

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Grades K to 3

Grades 4 to 6

Food Picture Kit: Order Here

The Food Picture Kit is a free bilingual K–6 resource with cards, posters, and a guide.

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Grades K to 3

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Food Picture Kit: Curriculum Connections

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