Text Set

The Five Senses

1. Marder, R. (2015). A trip to the music store

2. Appropriate for a Preschool through second grade classroom. Genre is a Big Book
3. This is book is good for use in a large group or circle time setting. Also a bonus if
instruments that go along with the instruments in the book, are available as student toys
in the classroom to promote more interaction.
4. This book is about different music instruments that can be found in a music store and the
different sounds that they make.
5. Students can participate in a time of centers, with one of the centers being a music store.
Students can pretend that they play the instruments, talk about the instruments, and sell
the instruments. Students learn through acting and play, and have the opportunity to apply
the terms and words from the story to their active play.
1. Cole, J. (1999). The magic school bus: explores the senses. Scholastic Press.
2. Appropriate First through Third Grade; Genre is Scientific Fiction
3. This book would be a good trade book to use to help students get more of an in-depth
understanding of the senses and how each work. Students should have a brief
introduction, and then this book can be brought in as a whole-class read to go deeper into
information.
4. With the help of their crazy teacher Miss Frizzle, students shrink down on their magic
school bus and go inside the body to explore each of the five senses.
5. Students can make paper flipbooks with an illustration of the sense, and a supporting
detail or fact that they learned from the book that distinguishes that sense.
1. Showers, P. (1993). The listening walk. HarperCollins.
2. Appropriate for Kindergarten through Second Grade; Genre: Fiction Picture Book
3. This book could be a reading option during book centers. A book center is perfect for a
unit with different aspects like the senses. There will be five book centers, one center for
each sense. Students can choose between one or two books to read at each center to learn
about that particular sense.
4. A little girl goes on a silent walk with her father to listen to all of the different sounds
found in the world around her.
5. Students can reflect on the different sounds they hear throughout their day. They can do a
technology activity (with assistance), where they pick out five different pictures of things
they encounter throughout the day and put them into a simple PowerPoint, and narrate the
different sounds that each object makes.
1. Bennett, J. (1998). Tasty poems. Oxford University Press.
2. Appropriate for grades Kindergarten through third; Genre: Poetry
3. This book can be used as a whole-class read-aloud. It will be fun and engaging.
4. This is a book of a compilation of different food-related childrens poems
5. After reading the book and discussing a few different and basic aspects of poetry,
students can write their own poem about their favorite or least favorite foods
1. Trapani, I. (2012). The bear went over the mountain. New York: Sky Pony Press.
2. Appropriate for Preschool through Second Grade; Genre: Song

3. Book will be read as a sing-along. We will have the book to go along as we sing the
traditional Bear Went over the Mountain song.
4. The book/song is about a bear that goes across a mountain and sees, hears, and smells
many different things along the way.
5. After singing the song and following along with the book, students can participate in a
class discussion identifying the different senses that they heard about or that the bear
identified. After, we will go on our own imaginary journey. Students will close their
eyes and I will read them a different story that I will have made up about a trip that they
go on, and for them to imagine all the different sounds, smells, and sights they encounter.
After this activity students will go back and briefly write about what they thought about
or encountered.
1. Aliki.(1989). My five senses. HarperCollins.
2. Appropriate for Preschool through first grade; Genre is nonfiction
3. This book would be good as a read-aloud as an introduction to the five senses.
4. This book describes each sense and what it does and which body part is used for it
5. With preschool, students can play an adapted version of Head shoulders knees and toes.
The words would be changed and they would touch the part of the body used throughout
the song. For example, it could go, I use my eyes so I can see, I can see! I use my ears
so I can hear, I can hear! Eyes, Nose, tongue, ears and hands! These are all of my senses!
Then it would be repeated again using nose, tongue, and hands.
1. Barrett, J. (1982). Cloudy with a chance of meatballs. Aladdin Picture Books.
2. Appropriate for first through third grade; Genre is fantasy
3. This book would be used as a read-aloud. This would be best used if there was extra class
time, or as a transition activity, as it is not necessarily an instructional book, but is fun
and goes along with theme.
4. This book is about a grandpa who tells his kids about a far off land call chew-andswallow. In this town, no one cooks or goes to the grocery store! All of their meals come
from the sky. The book describes how these people live, and how they make this new
source of food work.
5. This book would be used with the story pyramid. Students would outline major events,
and be able to describe cause and effects.

1.

Seuss, D. (1954). Horton hears a who! Random House.

2. Appropriate for first through fourth grade; Genre is fantasy

3. This would be used as a read-aloud book. This could be used to in cooperate hearing and
social skills and the importance of caring about other people.
4. As he is going through the jungle, Horton fears a small sound on a flower. After listening,
he realizes that they are very small people who live on it. Horton tries to convince other
animals that there really are people on there, but no one believes him. Horton has to try
and convince the other animals before the little people get hurt.
5. I would use a think-pair-share activity with students so they can think about not only the
sounds aspect of the story, but dive deeper into the storys meaning and how it can apply
to their own life and friendships.
1. Martin, B. (1996). Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? Henry Holt and
Company.
2. Appropriate for Kindergarten through second grade; Genre: Picture Book
3. Would you this book as part of book centers. This would be good for a sight center during
a sense unit.
4. This book is about different animals and colors that the animal characters see.
5. For a Kindergarten class, students can do an activity where they color and match the
correct color with the animal in the story. It can help show students listening ability, and
color classification.
1. Marshall, J. (1998). Goldilocks and the three bears. Dial Books.
2. Appropriate for preschool through third grade; Genre: Fable
3. This book would be used for a group read-aloud. Could be used to discuss touch or
classifying different objects.
4. This book is about a little girl named Goldilocks who wanders into the house of the three
bears. Goldilocks tries out many of the bears things and eats their food, only to fall asleep
in their house, waking up to some angry bears.
5. I would have students do a story map linking different events together and understanding
cause and effect.