Food Groups Sort Food Themed Activities Speech Therapy

This fun food group sort product give students opportunities to sort and categorize foods by healthy or unhealthy, meats, grains, dairy, fruit, vegetables, sweets, personal preferences, and even Thanksgiving foods! Great for a food pyramid or healthy eating lesson. Did you know that enhancing categorical understanding is one of the top evidence-based practices for vocabulary development?

This product can be used by a Speech Language Pathologist, Early Intervention teacher, 4K or Kindergarten teacher, or an elementary general education teacher.

There are 46 pages in this food-themed packet. This is a versatile product that spans pre-k through grade 4 or perhaps further if you are doing a food pyramid unit. It addresses language arts and science goals.

These activities are designed to work on the following language skills: Pronouns: "I, he/she," contraction 'don't," turn-taking, naming, recall, categorization, matching, sorting, describing, understanding and verbalizing similarities and differences. The activities can be used for individual or group activities, (just be sure to print enough sorting mats for each group member).

Here are the activities:

1. Food Group Sort: (Sort up to 6 food groups: meat, vegetables, fruits, dairy, grains, sweets),
2. Sort by preferences: "I like/don't like __________" (foods) game,
3. Breakfast or Lunch foods sort,
4. Recall those foods! (naming and recall),
5. Set your thanksgiving table, (find foods you would see on a Thanksgiving table),
6. What does not belong?
7. Healthy or Unhealthy Snacks Sort.

There are sorting mats for:

• vegetables,
• fruits,
• grains,
• meat and nuts,
• dairy,
• sweets,
• Thanksgiving foods,
• breakfast foods,
• lunch foods,
• I like/don't like,
• healthy/unhealthy

There are four cards per category and a total of 40 cards

There are also 6 black and white supporting activities for sorting and category naming..

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