Our Five Senses LEVELED BOOK • H A Reading A–Z Level H Leveled Book Word Count: 273 hearing Our Five Senses seeing smelling touching tasting Written by Alyse Sweeney Visit www.readinga-z.com for thousands of books and materials www.readinga-z.com Our Five Senses Written by Alyse Sweeney www.readinga-z.com Table of Contents Introduction Sight Sound Smell Taste 11 Touch 13 Conclusion 15 Glossary 16 Our Five Senses • Level H seeing hearing smelling touching tasting Table of Contents Introduction Sight Introduction Sound Smell Taste 11 Touch 13 How we feel a warm bath? Or see our friends and hear a song? How we smell a flower and taste an apple? Conclusion 15 Our brain uses our five senses Glossary 16 to tell us things about our world! Our Five Senses • Level H Sight Look around There is so much to see! We use our eyes to see everything around us Our Five Senses • Level H fish coral rock Our eyes take pictures Sight They send the information Look around to our brain There is so much to see! Our brain tells us what we see We use our eyes to see everything What are you around us seeing now? Our Five Senses • Level H Sound Sound is all around us We use our ears to hear all the sounds and noises Our Five Senses • Level H guitar singer drums Sound can be quiet or LOUD Sound Our ears send sounds to our brain Sound is all around us Our brain tells us what we hear We use our ears to hear What are you all the sounds and noises hearing now? Our Five Senses • Level H Smell The air is full of smells We use our nose to smell them Our Five Senses • Level H fresh air sweet grass Air carries smells inside our nose Our nose sends the smells to our brain Smell Our brain tells us what we smell The air is full of smells What are you We use our nose to smell them smelling now? Our Five Senses • Level H 10 Taste Foods we eat can be sweet, salty, sour, or bitter We use our tongue to taste our food Our Five Senses • Level H 11 vanilla sweet Our tongue has tiny bumps called taste buds They send information about food Taste to our brain Our brain tells us what the taste is Foods we eat can be sweet, salty, sour, or bitter What have you We use our tongue to taste our food tasted today? Our Five Senses • Level H 11 12 Touch How you know if something feels hot, cold, soft, hard, or scratchy? We use parts of our skin to touch Our Five Senses • Level H 13 cold wet slimy Our skin sends our brain Touch information about things we touch How you know if something feels Our brain tells us how things feel hot, cold, soft, hard, or scratchy? What does this We use parts of our skin to touch paper feel like? Our Five Senses • Level H 13 14 Popcorn looks white and fluffy Popcorn sounds like POP! Popcorn smells like corn Popcorn feels warm Popcorn tastes salty Conclusion Our brain takes in information about the world we live in Then our brain tells us what we are seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and feeling! Our Five Senses • Level H 15 Popcorn looks white and fluffy Glossary Popcorn sounds like POP! bitter (adj.) a harsh, bad taste (p 1) Popcorn smells like corn Popcorn feels warm Popcorn tastes salty senses (n.) sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch are the five senses (p 4) smells (n.) odors or scents (p 9) taste buds the parts of the tongue (n.) that tell how things taste (p 12) Conclusion Our brain takes in information about the world we live in Then our brain tells us what we are seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and feeling! Our Five Senses • Level H 15 16 Our Five Senses LEVELED BOOK • H A Reading A–Z Level H Leveled Book Word Count: 273 hearing Our Five Senses seeing smelling touching tasting Written by Alyse Sweeney Visit www.readinga-z.com for thousands of books and materials www.readinga-z.com Our Five Senses Written by Alyse Sweeney Photo Credits: Front cover (top left): © Photographerlondon/Dreamstime.com; front cover (top right): © iStockphoto.com/Dale Hogan; front cover (center left): © Tom Wang/123RF; front cover (center right): © iStockphoto.com/Jennifer Sharp; front cover (bottom): © Crystal Craig/Dreamstime.com; back cover, pages 4, 9, 11, 13 (hand): © Jupiterimages Corporation; title page, page 15: © Andrzej Kwiatkowski/123RF; page 3: © iStockphoto.com/T Ostenschon; page 5: © iStockphoto.com/Miodrag Gajic; page 6: © R Marmion/Dreamstime.com; page 7: © iStockphoto.com/Aldo Ottaviani; page 8: © Juliain Rovagnati/123RF; page 10: © iStockphoto.com/Felix Mizioznikov; page 12: © Sparkia/ Dreamstime.com; page 13 (background), page 14: © Kira Freed; page 16: © Jean Schweitzer/Dreamstime.com Our Five Senses Level H Leveled Book © Learning A–Z Written by Alyse Sweeney Illustrations by © Learning A–Z/ Craig Frederick All rights reserved www.readinga-z.com www.readinga-z.com Correlation LEVEL H Fountas & Pinnell H Reading Recovery 13–14 DRA 14