Consider Dr. Seuss

Last week, in honor of Thanksgiving, I read the fours class Green Eggs and Ham.  The good doctor plumbed sheer genius from a book composed entirely of one syllable words (excepting, of course, the single three syllable word, “anywhere”)  Naturally, they had almost all heard it before, but that just pulled them in even harder.  By the end, we were all reading it together, really.  I’m sure you know Dr. Seuss as well as anyone, but I urge you to consider having another look, even for older kids who might not have latched onto the author’s sublime weirdness.  Here are a few Dr. Seuss titles you may be less familiar with: I Had Trouble In Getting to Solla Sollew, Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!, If I Ran the Circus; I Can Read with my Eyes Shut!

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