Dental Health Month Book Companion Activities Reading Comprehension

This unit was created to help your students understand the importance of dental health while using reading strategies, writing, and completing work work. You can’t forget our creative side too so there are two cute crafts included as well. There are several literacy connections, writing activities, word work, and a fun tooth fairy craft. This unit can be used for distance learning and google classroom with the new TpT digital tool.

Included you will receive:

Text Connections:

• I Know Why I Brush my Teeth by Rowan: diagram, fill in the blank, Informative writing 2 choices

• Open Wide Tooth School Inside by Laurie Keller: anticipation guide & writing

• Throw your Tooth on the Roof by Beeler: informative writing

• Make Way for Tooth Decay by Katz: recall

• Arthur’s Tooth by Marc Brown: beginning, middle, & end, questioning, character senses, singular or plural, narrative Writing

• Dear Tooth Fairy by Edwards: character change

• Nice Try, Tooth Fairy by Olson: recall, letter writing

• How Many Teeth by Showers: text to self, narrative writing

• Moose’s Loose Tooth by Clark: problem & solution, inferencing, retell writing

• What do the Fairies do with all Those Teeth? By Luppens: predicting, recall, narrative writing

• Bear’s Loose Tooth by Karma Wilson: predicting, character senses, character feelings, rhyming, recall, opinion writing

• What if You Had Animal Teeth? By Sandra Markle: matching, writing & craft

Also included are:

• Dental Care Review: true/false assessment

• All about Teeth writing and web

• Tooth Log

• Class Tooth Chart: tally graph, bar graph & questions

• Chart sign and teeth to make a large graph

• How to.. Writing with pictures

Word Work:

• ed word sort “t” or “d”-colorful cards

• ee & ea word sort-colorful cards

• ABC order

• Making Words

• Syllables

• Word Search

Tooth Fairy Craft

Animal Teeth Craft