Author: Pamela Hill Nettleton Title: Look, Listen, Taste, Touch, and Smell
Book Genre: Informational
Publishing Info: Picture Window Books, MN, 2004 (24pgs)
Summary: The story uses the person reading the book as the main character. This is an introduction of the five senses and the parts of the body that performs sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch. It goes through the five senses and how you use them. It makes you think of times and ways in which you use your senses.
Personal rating: ****
Rationale: This book is very helpful in explaining how each one of the senses are important and giving details of how people use them. The pictures are very helpful in getting the authors story across.
Information for teachers
Reading level: 3.1 Interest level: Pre-K thru 4th
Thematic Areas: the five senses, learning about yourself
Content Areas: Health, senses that humans possess
Potential Problems or Difficulties: If some students are not able to use or do not have one of the senses.
Possible use in classroom: Have students look at a picture of people using their senses and make a list of ways that he or she sees people using their senses. Compare list with a friend.
-Have students take a taste test. Prove that a person’s nose and tongue work together to help taste. Plug the nose, and take a bite of a warm chocolate-chip cookie. Now, unplug the nose and take another bite. Does the cookie taste better the first or second time?
-Have students feel in a bag to see if they know what an object is. Have students look at an object and tell what it is. Have students taste an object and see if they know what it is. Have students listen and see if they know what certain objects are. Have students smell and see if they know what certain objects are. Have the students write about their experience, maybe they saw that they like using several senses together or that they prefer a sense over another. What it was like not to be able to use the other senses while figuring out the objects.
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