Dr. Seuss
Lesson plans and other teaching materials
Biography and Miscellaneous Resources
Which book is about Hitler? Which book uses only 50 words? And just why did Dr. Seuss write The Cat in the Hat? Find the answers here.
Dr. Seuss's birthday and Newspaper in Education Week both fall in March. These lessons connect newspaper study with 23 of his books: And to Think that I Saw it on Mulberry Street, Bartholomew and the Oobleck, Green Eggs and Ham, Hop on Pop, Horton Hatches the Egg, The Glunk that Got Thunk, If I Ran the Circus, and more.
Scroll down to find posters of quotations selected for the classroom from Dr. Seuss books.
The official Dr. Seuss Website, rich with resources.
Students explore the relationship between sound and spelling using onomatopoeia. This standards-based lesson uses Dr. Seuss's Mr. Brown Can MOO! Can You?
This site has audio files of Dr. Seuss books, sung in the style of Bob Dylan.
Biography and background information.
Ideas for celebrating the March 2 birthday: make the Green Eggs and Ham breakfast, take the Grinch quiz, and other activities.
Designed for second grade, these lessons ask students to spend a week learning basic sight words, demonstrating comprehension of simple stories, and demonstrating knowledge of story elements. The activities also meet the criteria of balanced literacy--reading to with and by students.
Reader's Theater script for 4 readers. Free, downloadble. Adobe Reader required for access.
Suggestions for a variety of books by Seuss.
Many tools and exercises help a young author reflect and focus before getting down to the business of writing: introduce the outline, timeline, concept or story map, story skeleton or other graphic organizers as appropriate to the ages and abilities of your students. Find great ideas here!
"Working in small groups, students select and read books or short stories by Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein. Each group then prepares critical thinking questions and leads a class discussion about the issues raised in the story. Students use the interactive Literary Elements Map to explore the conflict in their selected texts."
Students identify rhyming words, discriminate between short u and o sounds, and more.
Printables, lesson plans, and author study.