Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World book cover

Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World Worksheets

by Selby B. Beeler

Reading Level M · Lexile AD540L · ATOS 4.2

Has this ever happened to you? A loose tooth finally falls out, and children from more than sixty countries and peoples tell, region by region, what they do with it. In Mexico a child hopes El Ratón, the magic mouse, will come; in Brazil a child asks the birds for a new tooth; in Cameroon a child throws it over the roof and hops around the house on one foot. A friendly, fact-filled read for Dental Health Month, with pages at the back about baby teeth and what is inside a tooth.

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Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World vocabulary words and comprehension questions

12 vocabulary words and 8 comprehension questions across 3 sections: Beginning · Middle · End.

Vocabulary words include wiggle, replace, crafty, charm, coop, gazelle, rooster, graduate, spoiled, keepsake, slanted, mighty.

Sample questions

In Mexico, what kind of tooth gets more money from the magic mouse?
In Brazil, one child says a poem to the birds. Why must this child brush every day?
In South Africa, why does the child's sister leave her slipper outside her door?

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