Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face By: Jack Prelutsky

Book Title: Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face

Author: Jack Prelutsky

Illustrator: none

Genre: Poetry

Summary: A poem about all the silly places your nose could be if it were not on your face

ELA Content Standard 1: Grade 1, Craft and Structure #4 - Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

How it Connects: Students can use there knowledge of sense of smell and relate that to this poem and imagine what it would be like, smell like, and feel like to have your nose anyplace but your face.

ELA Content Standard 2: Grade 1, Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity #10- With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

How it Connects: Students can use this poem to understand and gain insight to poetry by the flow of the words and rhymes

3 Tiers of  Vocab: 1) not, feet 2) drive, breeze 3) despair, catastrophe

How Children Use Book: Small Groups

Meets Needs: SPED can use this book for the senses and expand this poem to the things we not only smell, but also feel, taste, touch, and hear.