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 Toss that Pizza Dough!

Toss that Pizza Dough!
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     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 3 to 5
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   2.34

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    flatter, wobbly, Wheee, gooey, recipe, easy, working, inch, surface, often, flare, parlor, shoulder, delicious, rise, slice
     content words:    Chef Bob

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Toss that Pizza Dough!
By Colleen Messina 		  
1     Pizza is easy to eat! It is gooey and delicious. Making a pizza takes skill. One part of the process is making the dough into a round, thin shape. Chefs often toss the dough into the air to make this shape! Tossing pizza dough takes practice.
 
2     Where do chefs get their pizza dough? Some chefs use pre-made dough. Another choice is to make the dough from scratch. This means that the chef does not use a prepared mix or other shortcuts. There are many pizza dough recipes. The basic recipe usually consists of flour, salt, oil, a sweetener, and water. Yeast is also added. Yeast makes the dough rise. This means that the dough swells up and gets bigger.
 
3     Let's peek over the shoulder of a chef in a pizza parlor. Chef Bob is his name. He is a roly-poly man who loves pizza! After making the dough, Chef Bob puts it on a floured work surface. He puts flour on his hands, too. The flour makes the dough less sticky. The dough can feel squishy. He makes the dough into a ball. Then, he presses the ball down with his hands. Chef Bob forms the dough into a round, flat shape that is about 1/2 inch thick.

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