ScienceVerse

Scieszka, J. (2004). //Science verse.// New York, NY: Viking Penguin.

Mr. Newton, a science teacher, turns this little boys life upside down when her tells the class that there is poetry in everything science. The book then goes through different scientific adaptations of well known poems. This is the case of the science verse. **Grade Level:** 2-5 **Reading Level:** 3.8 **Curriculum Connections:**  These poems would be great introductions to different science units that are addressed in the book, for example: dinosaurs, the scientific method, matter, etc. The reading strategy, determining importance, could also be taught with this book. Due to the poetic form of the facts of these scientific concepts, working with students to pull out the most important information is essential with this book. **Horn Book Review 2005: (from Mackin)** A teacher's comment ( if you listen closely enough, you can hear the poetry of science in everything ) causes a boy to start hearing everything as a science poem. Scieszka s clever verses, lampooning works by Edgar Allan Poe and others, and Smith s characteristically zany illustrations relate simple scientific concepts about topics such as precipitation and atoms.
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