National Education Association
Read Across America Classroom Activity Guide
Celebrate the legendary Dr. Seuss on Read Across America Day with a plethora of activities set to five stories—The Cat in the Hat, The Lorax, Horton Hears a Who, Oh, the Places You'll Go!, and Green Eggs and Ham. Activities...
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Dr. Seuss Lesson Plan
Students read classic children's books. In this Dr. Seuss instructional activity, students read the Seuss classics The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs & Ham and Horton Hears a Who. Students create models based on story characters and...
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Dr. Seuss: Horton Hears a Who?
Second graders listen to Horton Hears a Who? and complete a study of word cooperation. They group the words into families to see chunking.
Advocates for Human Rights
The Rights of the Child
Dr. Seuss wrote " A person's a person, no matter how small." The elementary resource uses Dr. Seuss's book Horton Hears a Who to explore children's rights in an engaging way. Young academics listen to the story, participate in group...
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Horton Hears a Who
Students explore the ways that communities work in the story Horton Hears a Who and compare that to the community in which they live.
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Reading comprehension
In this reading comprehension worksheet, 4th graders read passages about Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), sharks, Chinese tales, and more. Students then answer 24 multiple choice questions.
Council for Economic Education
Green Eggs and ...Economics?
Scholars use four different children's books by Dr. Seuss to analyze microeconomic concepts. Group presentations and research help them better understand simple economic concepts through simple stories.
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Hhhh, I'm Getting Sleepy!
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /h/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter H. Students then view pictures and identify the pictures that contain the /h/ sound, and...
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Hello H!
Students recognize the letter h in print and the phoneme /h/ in spoken words. They say a tongue twister with contains words emphasizing the /h/ sound. They then listen to the story "Horton Hears a Who" and identify the words with the...
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Hop To It
Students identify the grapheme and phoneme for H. They practice writing the letter H and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /h/. They associate the phoneme /h/ with its letter representation and identify it as the...
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Spreading Kindness All Around
Learners donate items to organization to demonstrate kindness. In this kindness lesson plan, students read many books and discuss how the characters in each one demonstrate kindness, and then they themselves donate to charities.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Green Eggs and Economics?
Economic concepts are often found in places students have never considered, like children's literature. In this lesson plan, students will explore the various economic concepts addressed in five of Dr. Seuss' most popular books: The Cat...