Books like The Sea Is Salty: and Other Questions About the Oceans

Summary:This book is about all the questions people may have about salty waters. The book starts with the larger topic of the Earth’s oceans. It includes its sizes and where they are. The book then starts to break down questions about the oceans. Each page there is several questions with fun facts for each as well. Questions range from the oceans temperatures, to animals, to appearance underneath water to who used to hunt the oceans. It is a series of I Wonder Why. Evaluation: This nonfiction text was very busy. I felt has though it would have been better to have all the content on multiple pages instead of multiple on one page. I loved the content though and the facts it provided. Students may enjoy this book when research salty waters that Earth holds. I liked how there was illustrations for each fact. It allowed the reader to visualize how the ocean’s bottoms may look. Teaching Moment: I’d use this text to introduce nonfiction writing. I’d let students explore this book and find the characteristics that make it nonfiction. The students can then model or take information from this text depending on their topic. This book is appropriate for upper elementary therefore it may even be useful for a research paper.