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What's Cooking?
6-pack
ISBN: 9780478124026
Copyright Date: 2000
Grade Level:
3
Reading Level:
P
Strategy/Skill:
Features of nonfiction, Main ideas, Summarizing, Using texts as models for own writing
Genre:
Explanation, Procedure
Theme/Topic:
Food, Math, Science and Technology
Classification:
Nonfiction
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Book Summary
In this book, the students are the cooks. There are simple recipes for treats like crispy cookies, mini pizzas, and chocolate pudding. Following the recipes will help students understand how heat cooks food in different ways.
Features of the Book
- Recipe book format
- Specialized language – digest, convection, broil
- Abbreviations – tsp., tbsp.
- Photographic sequences
- Step-by-step explanations
- Additional information in “hot tips” boxes and bulleted lists
- Labeled diagrams
- The humor in the chapter headings
Purpose
What’s Cooking? can be used to introduce and reinforce the following skills:
- exploring language specific to the recipe book
- format
- reading and writing procedural text
- locating information using a contents page and an index
- using text as a model for students’ own writing
- summarizing a piece of text using the main points
For most information please see our Lesson PLan
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