Blog Post 12 - Nonfiction Informational Text - You Hear With Your Ears by Melvin and Gilda Berger
A child showing off his ears. You Hear With Your Ears by Melvin and Gilda Berger is a nonfiction informational text. This book is simple, and it teaches kids about how their ears work. It also talks about how sound travels through the ear and what kinds of sounds the ear can hear. It uses captions throughout the book to provide the reader with some fun facts. This book is a nonfiction information text because by reading the book, the reader is gaining information about the topic of how the ear works. The colorful photographs provide realistic pictures for the reader as well, and the fun fact captions give some useful information as well. One activity a teacher can do with the book is have the children listen to a CD with different sounds. As they are listening, they will have to identify what the sound is. Some of the sounds will be soft and some will be a little louder. This is a simple book that would be a good supplement to a unit on sound or on the five sense
