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Lesson Plans - March

Teaching Short-Vowel Discrimination Using Dr. Seuss Rhymes

Students will: Identify rhyming words in a story, Discriminate between short u and o sounds, Produce rhyming words when given a keyword in the word family, Blend onsets and rimes aloud to create words, Sort pictures based on their rimes.

Reading Everywhere with Dr. Seuss

Young readers celebrate all the places they can read by creating a classroom book modeled after Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham.

Id, Ego, and Superego in Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat

In this lesson, The Cat in the Hat is used as a primer to teach students how to analyze a literary work using the literary tools of plot, theme, characterization, and psychoanalytical criticism.

Seuss and Silverstein: Posing Questions, Presenting Points

In this lesson, classic stories from children’s authors Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein provide the ideal springboard for struggling readers to discuss relevant social issues.

Recycling!

Over the course of four lessons, the students will recall event from “The Lorax” and solve problems related to littering and pollution.