My Mouth

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Every living creature has a mouth of some shape and size. Some mouths are quite different from the mouth of a human. This delightful nonfiction picture book encourages young learners to make connections between the type of mouths they have and how they use it to the types of mouths other creatures have and how they use them. Big mouth. Is this your mouth? Missing teeth. Is this your mouth? Beautiful full color photographs across the page bring the message to life with six simple words of darkly bolded, nicely spaced, easy to read text. A book designed to help young readers engage with text as they think about the questions being asked and compare and contrast the various possibilities. Young students will be rolling with laughter as they begin to imagine how life would be different if their own mouths were like those of a catfish or that of a lion. Learning is all about connecting the information we know with the information that we need to learn. Young children require an abundance of background knowledge, experiences and vocabulary on which to base any learning. This book enables young learners to make some simple, easy connections as they attempt to understand more about the world around them. Written with only 54 words in a repetitive sentence format, this book is considered a leveled B guided reading book, based on the guidelines by Fountas and Pinnell. Additional titles in this All About My Body series are: My Eyes, My Body, My Nose, My Ears and My Hands and Feet. This entire series is written at the same reading level and will appeal to beginning readers of all ages., Children's Literature