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Feb 25, 2016 · While his books are known for their humor and spirit, they also convey a moral lesson and incorporate strategies that help children improve their reading skills. His ability to make learning fun and accessible has won the hearts of children and parents alike. His legacy continues today — more than 20 years after his death.
Jun 5, 2019 · How Dr. Seuss Changed Education in America. The playful inventor of the Yuzz-a-ma-Tuzz faced a challenge: write a page-turner that restrained itself to a few hundred real, mostly monosyllabic...
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The original wartime cartoon presaged the main character in Yertle the Turtle, Seuss’s book that appeared 13 years after the war ended. The children’s book pictures Yertle, a grasping, domineering tower-builder, out to control all he could survey. But, in this later instance, Seuss inverted the scene, placing the dictatorial Yertle, who had been mu...
Yertle the Turtle was not the first of Dr. Seuss’s popular books that carried a rousing and reassuring message; nor was it the last. The Sneeches (1953) decried antisemitism and religious bigotry. Horton Hatches an Egg (1940) honored devotion and perseverance. A sequel, Horton Hears a Who (1954), commemorated individual freedom. The Cat in the Hat ...
It's difficult to think of these issues as subversive now, but with books such as The Cat in the Hat (1957), Dr. Seuss did, in fact, aim to liberate children’s literature from the literalist and lackluster “Dick and Jane” and “See Spot Run” learning exercises that had dominated early literacy pedagogy. Over generations, the hundreds of millions of ...
It was Audrey Geisel, Seuss’s widow, who teamed with the National Education Association (NEA) to create Read Across America Day, not coincidentally celebrated on Dr. Seuss’s birthday, March 2. And it was a staffer at NEA, Anita Merina, who penned the best advice for parents and grandparents in the form of a Seussian rhyme: “You are never too old, t...
Mar 4, 2019 · In light of a new study revealing stereotyped characters across Dr. Seuss’s children’s books, published just before Read Across America Day, how can educators engage older students in a critical discussion of this canonical author?
May 3, 2013 · Seuss was given a list of 348 words that the average six year old should know and asked to choose 225 from that list to make into a story kids would actually want to read. Seuss found this task extremely difficult and later described it as “being lost with a witch in a tunnel of love.”. On top of this difficulty was the fact that Seuss ...
Jul 31, 2020 · Ever wonder why Dr. Seuss's stories and rhymes are so vital to your kid's early childhood development? Here's the science behind the silliness.
Feb 14, 2019 · Through exposure to rhyme in books kids learn to segment words into phonemes, improving their decoding and comprehension abilities. Dr. Seuss, whose March 2 birthday is the historical marker for Read Across America Day, is an author whose stories are synonymous with rhyming.
