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Title: Sweet Tooth

Author: Margie Palatini

Publishing Date: 2004

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers

Description: This book is about Stewart who has a sweet tooth and it always gets him into trouble until he uses a healthy diet and oral care to take care of the problem tooth.

Quotes: “This is Stewart’s sweet tooth. One nagging, annoying, demanding – very loud, sweet tooth.” “Stewart rubbed his jaw. He stared at the carrot…and The Tooth. It was over.”

Integration: I want to use this book as a writing prompt and have the students use their own struggle of overcoming something difficult in a writing piece. I would read this story to my students and have them write a story using dialogue, like Sweet Tooth, to explain a time in their life when they had a struggle or problem and solved it.

Standards:

NHES: PHW1.5.1 Describe the benefits of personal health care practices such as tooth brushing and flossing, washing hair and bathing regularly.

HBO 2: Practice appropriate hygiene habits.

Common Core Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3.B
Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.

Learning Target: Students will learn the importance of brushing their teeth and eating a healthy diet to keep their teeth healthy.

Learning Target: Students will write a personal narrative paper.

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Title: Open Wide Tooth School Inside

Author: Laurie Keller

Publication Date: 2000

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

Description: This book is about a tooth school where teeth go to learn about being teeth. They learn to keep themselves clean and why its important, they learn about teeth throughout history, they learn about what each type of tooth does in a funny and entertaining fact based book.

Quotes: “8 incisors, 4 canines, 8 premolars, 12 molars, including 4 wisdom teeth. Oh goody gumdrops – al 32 of you are here.” But right now it’s almost time for lunch so let’s break up into our four groups. Food cutters Incisors, Food tearers Canines, food crushers Premolars, food grinders molars. Way to go, class- get in there and eat!”

Integration: This book talks about the number of teeth a few times so I would like to use it in math as a multiplication problem. I will write story problems for the students that reflect money brought by the Tooth fairy. For example:

If I get $1 for every incisor, $2 for every canine, $3 for every premolar, and $4 for every molar. How much money will I get after I lose all my baby teeth?

Story problems will include different amounts and number of teeth.

Standards:

NHES: PHW1.5.1 Describe the benefits of personal health care practices such as tooth brushing and flossing, washing hair and bathing regularly.

HBO 1: Brush and floss teeth daily.

HBO 2: Practice appropriate hygiene habits.

Learning target: Students will learn various facts about their teeth including how many teeth they have.

Learning target: Students will solve multiplication problems.

Common Core Standards: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.OA.A.3 Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.¹