What's That Smell? Level 12-14

Follow your nose on a smelly adventure in this expressive and humorous early reader.

You can follow your nose to sniff out a good story when you read What's That Smell? This engaging Level 12-14 (Green) reader by Clare Bowes introduces young readers to a humorous tale featuring Jessie and her dog, who have very different opinions about the various smells wafting through their home. As Jessie helps out around the house before supper, the smells she encounters range from delightful to dreadful-but her dog doesn't always agree! This book is ideal for reinforcing key reading strategies such as comparing and contrasting, determining importance, using visual cues to monitor comprehension, and reading with expression. The playful narrative features speech bubbles and interjections to expand the storyline and promote expressive oral reading. With a light-hearted theme centred on relationships and food, this text supports early fluency while encouraging engagement through relatable daily life situations and comical interactions between a child and her pet.

Educational Benefits:

• Encourages expressive reading through punctuation and interjections
• Reinforces strategies like comparing, contrasting, and monitoring meaning
• Builds comprehension using visual cues and graphic sources
• Supports understanding of narrative voice through speech bubbles

Classroom Ideas:

• Create a sensory chart comparing œgood and œbad smells
• Role-play scenes from the book with expressive voice tones
• Have students write their own story titled What's That Smell?
• Use the story to introduce olfactory senses in a science unit

Information:

• Reading Level: 12-14 (Green)
• Themes: Relationships, Food
• Suitable for ages: 6-7 years
• Book size: 14.5cm x 16cm