{"id":1518,"date":"2009-08-29T00:47:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T05:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1518"},"modified":"2009-08-29T00:47:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T05:47:40","slug":"teaching-process-skills-with-childrens-literature-you-cant-taste-a-pickle-with-your-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/08\/29\/teaching-process-skills-with-childrens-literature-you-cant-taste-a-pickle-with-your-ear\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Process Skills with Children’s Literature: You Can’t Taste a Pickle With Your Ear"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You Can’t Taste a Pickle With Your Ear <\/a>written by Harriet Ziefert<\/a>\u00a0and illustrated by Amanda Haley <\/a>explores the five senses by explaining what they are and how we use them\u00a0as well as\u00a0colorful and fun illustrations and rhymes.<\/p>\n

The book appropriately begins with an introduction briefly describing the five senses along with their functions. Each of the subsequent chapters focuses on an individual sense by examining some of the many\u00a0ways we use it. It further captures the attention of\u00a0young ones with short rhymes incorporating sensory descriptors\u00a0such as this one found in the chapter on taste, “Pizza is spicy, milk is not. Milk is cold and pizza’s hot.” The\u00a0chapter on touch includes this fun rhyme, “Worms are soft, beetles hard. Can you find some in your yard?” Each chapter concludes with thought-provoking questions and simple activities aimed at\u00a0motivating students to use that particular sense. For instance, the chapter on sight asks the questions, “When you shut your eyes, what happens to your eyeballs? Are they still there? Do they move?”<\/p>\n

In keeping with the theme, this easy-to-read book ends its concluding chapter\u00a0with a memorable poem re-emphasizing the five senses, their functions,\u00a0and their importance:<\/p>\n

Curriculum Connections<\/strong>
\nThis book could be used in a kindergarten classroom to help students learn what the five senses are as well as help them think about and understand\u00a0the ways they use their senses in day-to-day life. It directly relates to Virginia SOLs K.2a and K.2b which focus on humans’\u00a0five senses and corresponding sense organs as well as sensory descriptors.<\/p>\n

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