Pleasure Reading Picture Book: The Mayo Clinic Kids Cookbook

Title:

The Mayo Clinic Kids Cookbook: 50 Favorite Recipes for Fun and Healthy Eating

Bibliographic Information:

Mayo Clinic. (2012). Mayo Clinic kids' cookbook: 50 favorite recipes for fun and healthy eating. Intercourse, PA: Good Books.

Weekly Requirement:
Pleasure Reading Picture Book 

  

Summary:

The Mayo Clinic Kids Cookbook is a healthy recipe book for children. In addition to healthy recipes it also talks about the food pyramid, serving sizes, what types of foods to include in a meal and how much, kitchen safety, and equipment for the recipes. It also includes alerts for various recipes to remind children to be mindful of food allergies. Each recipe tells how many servings it makes, how long it takes to prepare, and what food groups from the food pyramid are part of the recipe.

Quantitative Reading Level:

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level 2.2., Average Grade level 3.9

 

Qualitative Reading Level:

The language of the book is standard American English. The book is divided by Includes Table of Contents, Glossary, and Index. Each recipe includes photos of the foods.  Each recipe includes a diagram of a plate to demonstrate the recipe’s nutritional value. Some recipes include sticky note pictures with tips or warnings.         

Content Area:
Hands-on Chemistry, Cooking

Maine Common Core Content Area Standard:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.1
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.3
Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.5
Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.1
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.3
Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.8
Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).
  
Curriculum Suggestions:

The cookbook is a perfect lesson teachers and parents can use for National Nutrition Month in March. Many of the recipes could be used during science lessons as a hands-on project. Students could be taught about the changes that happen to foods when they are cooked and how it relates to chemistry.  They could also be taught about the differences between mixtures and compounds by demonstrating a recipe like Italian flags caprese salad where the ingredients can be still be separated, and chocolate pudding where original ingredients cannot be separated.