Reading everywhere with Dr. Seuss
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=109
A lesson plan for grades K–1 English Language Arts
The purpose of this ReadWriteThink lesson is to help students see places where they can read and enjoy books, such as on a trip to Grandma’s, at the pool, or at the doctor’s office. As they create a book modeled on the rhythm and rhyme of Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss, they discover all the special places they can read. The resulting book of pictures and rhyming text can be made into a PowerPoint or HyperStudio slide show, or even be a part of your school’s web page. This lesson uses an interactive that helps students create stapleless books.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 1
- Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
- Objective 1.01: Develop phonemic awareness and demonstrate knowledge of alphabetic principle:
- count syllables in a word.
- blend the phonemes of one-syllable words.
- segment the phonemes of one-syllable words.
- change the beginning, middle, and ending sounds to produce new words.
- create and state a series of rhyming words that may include consonant blends (e.g., flag, brag).
- Objective 1.01: Develop phonemic awareness and demonstrate knowledge of alphabetic principle:
- Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
- Objective 4.05: Write and/or participate in writing by using an author's model of language and extending the model (e.g., writing different ending for a story, composing an innovation of a poem).
Kindergarten
- Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies to read and write.
- Objective 1.02: Develop phonemic awareness and knowledge of alphabetic principle:
- demonstrate understanding that spoken language is a sequence of identifiable speech sounds.
- demonstrate understanding that the sequence of letters in the written word represents the sequence of sounds in the spoken word.
- demonstrate understanding of the sounds of letters and understanding that words begin and end alike (onsets and rimes).
- Objective 1.02: Develop phonemic awareness and knowledge of alphabetic principle:
- Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
- Objective 4.06: Write and/or participate in writing behaviors by using authors' models of language.
