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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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Feb 25, 2016 · As a foundational skill for all other types of learning, reading matters for students to be successful in school and in life. Students who are not reading proficiently by fourth grade are four times more likely to drop out of high school.
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.
Mar 1, 2012 · “Children in the stages of early literacy need to develop strong foundations in phonological awareness,” Neely said. “I think the rhyming can be used in a variety of ways in this regard.” Ann Neely (Jenny Mandeville / Vanderbilt University) The moral lessons in Dr. Seuss stories also contribute to the learning experiences for older children.
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One way to start could be sharing the conversation scholars themselves are having. For context: Geisel biographers and historians are (you might want to sit down for this one) virtually 100 percent white. The researchers behind the new study are people of color, and more specifically they’re from groups that were often on the receiving end of racia...
In light of this new information, you may wonder about Dr. Seuss books featuring non-human characters. At Teaching Tolerance, we’ve even featured anti-racist activities built around the Dr. Seuss book The Sneetches. But when we re-evaluated, we found that the story is actually not as “anti-racist” as we once thought. And it has some pretty intricat...
An excellent example of what educators should do can be found in NEA and Read Across America Day’s response to this subject. When presented with this research from Ishikuza and Stephens, they made a choice to shift the focus of Read Across America Day from Dr. Seuss and his works to the diverse voices and experiences that help create America’s dive...
Mar 2, 2020 · We believe Dr. Seuss knew something special about rhythm and rhyme – it helps build children’s brains! Let’s explore the benefits of rhythm and rhyme for infants and toddlers in four key areas: social-emotional, physical, cognitive, and language and literacy.
Many schools, libraries, and communities of readers celebrate with an annual event on March 2, but NEA’s Read Across America also provides educators, parents, caregivers, and children the resources and activities they need to keep reading on the calendar 365 days a year. This year-round program focuses on motivating children and teens to read ...
