Taste (The Five Senses Series)

Summary: This book is written for beginner readers. Although it was very simple, I thought it described taste in an accurate way and provided students with a tangible way to talk about what they tasted. I also felt like this book was a good introduction into teaching about how to use adjectives in writing.
Thoughts: I may not use this book as a teaching tool for all students, but I would like to have this series in my classroom. I think some students would find it very interesting and it is a good level for beginning readers.
Use/Strategy:
- Teach about adjectives
- Senses

Age Appropriateness: Primary
Media: Pen and Ink
Genre: Informational

This is a great informational book for children in the primary grades. It is simple and easy to read, while at the same time it is teaching about taste. The pictures within the story are helpful and add even more to the overall learning. The last page even goes into further detail about taste and the various parts that help with it like the tongue, nose and taste buds. I think it goes into enough detail so that the children can learn without going over their heads.

The book Taste describes one of the five senses. Some foods can taste good or bad. Food can tasted salty, sweet, strong, and sometimes like nothing at all. There is a scientific description in the back with a labeled picture of a tongue. This helps the reader understand the different parts of the tongue and what they are used for. I give this book five out of five stars because Maria Rius does a good job of describing what taste is in a simple way with several illustrations. I like how she highlights the vocabulary words such as: tongue, taste buds, sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and saliva. I would use this book in a science lesson to introduce the five senses. I think this book is appropriate for K-2 grades.

The majority of this book is simple, one word sentences about the way things taste. For example, sea water is salty and honey is sweet. The ending of the book contains a page of simplified information about the way we taste things, using our tongues!

Summary: This book states a number of opinions regarding how various things taste, then finishes off with a description of how the tongue tastes.

Review: The first part of this book is not very interesting or informative, and the illustrations are not very high quality. Only the last two pages of the book are worth reading in my opinion, because that is where all of the information and the diagram of the tongue are. This is not a very good book at all.

Central Idea of The Five Senses: Taste: How we taste things.

Critique:
It is an information book about tastes. It uses simple words and sentence structures to introduce spicy, sweet, sour and other tastes. It is suitable for early learners to read.
Age appropriate:
Preschool and primary school

This was a book was about a bunch of different flavors and foods that taste sweet or sour. At the end of the book it shows a diagram of a tongue and labels each part of the tongue. This would be a good book have in my classroom to help inform students of taste and the tongue. Informational book.