It Is My

Fun Facts
• In Argentina a child’s ear is gently
Birthday!
pulled one time for each year! by Barbara L. Luciano

• In Denmark a flag flying outside

shows that it is someone’s birthday.
• In India the birthday child brings
chocolates for the class.

Comprehension
Genre Text Feature
Skill
Nonfiction Recall and Retell Glossary

Scott Foresman Social Studies

ISBN 0-328-14786-9

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Birthdays are special! Many children
Read Together
celebrate birthdays.
Write to It!
Vocabulary It Is My
Make a birthday card for someone
birthday
piñata Birthday!
special! Write the words Happy
Birthday on your card.
by Barbara L. Luciano

Use another sheet of paper.

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Birthdays are special! This child sings.

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This child hits a piñata. This child eats pie.

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This child rides in a chair. What do you do?

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Birthdays are special! Many children
Read Together
celebrate birthdays.
Glossary Write to It!
Vocabulary Make a birthday card for someone
birthday the day you were born
birthday special! Write the words Happy
piñata
piñata a container filled with Birthday on your card.
candy, fruit, and small toys
which is hung from the ceiling to
be broken open with bats Use another sheet of paper.

Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for
photographic material. The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to
ISBN: 0-328-14786-9
correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions.
Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc.
Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman,
a division of Pearson Education.
All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is
protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher
Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R),
prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission
Background (Bkgd)
in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or
likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department,
Opener: Getty Images; 1 Getty Images; 2 Getty Images; 3 Corbis; 4 ©Tony Freeman/
Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025.
PhotoEdit; 5 Corbis; 6 Aerial/Terrestrial Photography; 7 Taxi/Getty Images

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