What a Nose

What a Nose! is an expository nonfiction text that explains animal noses that can find food, go under water, make loud noises, and warm the air. Readers gain information from the text, photographs, and labels.

What a Nose! includes critical thinking questions to guide the reader. Photographs match the text. A visual information guide is provided for teachers to draw students’ attention to the photographs and compare them to illustrations. As well, focus is placed on the labels, Index, layout, and design. An activity on drawing and labelling a picture of different animal noses is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary such as interest words (nose), positional words (under), and high-frequency words (when). Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters at the beginning of sentences, full stops, exclamation marks, and commas. Focus on digraph th (this) and word family ong (long).

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