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YOU ARE IN SEUSSVILLE !

YOU ARE IN SEUSSVILLE !. Power Poi nt Created By: Ang ela McNaught. Seuss Questions. Who is Dr. Seuss? What is “ The Cat in the Hat”? How do you feel on rainy days when you cannot go outside? What are some activities we can do on rainy days?

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YOU ARE IN SEUSSVILLE !

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  1. YOU ARE IN SEUSSVILLE! Power Point Created By: Angela McNaught

  2. Seuss Questions • Who is Dr. Seuss? • What is “The Cat in the Hat”? • How do you feel on rainy days when you cannot go outside? • What are some activities we can do on rainy days? • How would you feel if you were left at home alone, and a stranger came in? • Which words rhyme in the story?

  3. Dr. who? DR. SEUSS! Biography • Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Geisel on March 2, 1904 • Graduated from Dartmouth College in 1925 • Attended Oxford University for a doctorate in literature • Married Helen Palmer in 1927 • His cartoons appeared in major magazines such as Vanity Fair • Gained national exposure when he won an advertising contract for an insecticide called Flit • In the military he created an Oscar winning cartoon character: Gerald McBoing-Boing • The Cat in the Hat, was an inspiration to help children learn to read because of a May 24, 1954 column in Life Magazine • He has written and illustrated 44 children's books that are widely known throughout the world • Theodor died on September 24, 1991, but his memory lives on through is widely loved books ? To Find out more about Dr. Seuss go to: http://www.seussville.com/main.php?section=home&isbn=&catalogID=&eventID= Back to Seuss Questions

  4. Hat-tivities! • Class Project: Each student will have the opportunity to make their own cat in the hat! • Materials needed: • Construction paper • Glue • Scissors • Cat face shape and hat shape stencils • “The Cat in the Hat” Book (used as references if desired) • Out come: The students will have made their very own version of the Cat in the Hat, but it can be any color they want! • To get the Cat in the Hat cut outs go to To print out the Cat in the Hat cut outs go to: • http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/dr__seuss.html

  5. Hat-tivities! • Small Groups Rhyming Activity • Make multiple patterns of a hat and cat. • On the cat cut-outs write the words - play, cat, two, sunny, said, ball, say, pot, you, hall, cake, go, fox, now, bump, yes, so, fish , sit, you, and hot. • On the hat cut-outs write words that rhyme with the above (example: day, mat, funny, tall, etc.) • Laminate the cards and place them in an envelope for the rhyming center. • The children will place the hat on the correct cat!

  6. TEKS! • §110.2. English Language Arts and Reading, Kindergarten. • (5) Reading/print awareness. The student demonstrates knowledge of concepts of print. The student is expected to: • (B) know that print moves left-to-right across the page and top-to-bottom (K-1); • (C) understand that written words are separated by spaces (K-1); • (D) know the difference between individual letters and printed words (K-1); • (E) know the difference between capital and lowercase letters (K-1); • (F) recognize how readers use capitalization and punctuation to comprehend (K-1); • (H) recognize that different parts of a book such as cover, title page, and table of contents offer information (K-1).

  7. TEKS! • §110.2. English Language Arts and Reading, Kindergarten. • (3) Listening/speaking/audiences/oral grammar. The student speaks appropriately to different audiences for different purposes and occasions. The student is expected to • (C) ask and answer relevant questions and make contributions in small or large group discussions (K-3) • (6) Reading/phonological awareness. The student orally demonstrates phonological awareness (an understanding that spoken language is composed of sequences of sounds). The student is expected to: • (C) produce rhyming words and distinguish rhyming words from non-rhyming words (K-1)

  8. Blooms • Knowledge: Arrange, define, duplicate, label, list, memorize, name, order, recognize, relate, recall, repeat, reproduce state. • In Action: the students will be able to list and name words that rhyme. • Comprehension: Classify, describe, discuss, explain, express, identify, indicate, locate, recognize, report, restate, review, select, and translate. • In Action: The students will be able to describe what they would do on a rainy day, and other unit questions. • Application: Apply, choose, demonstrate, dramatize, employ, illustrate, interpret, operate, practice, schedule, sketch, solve, use, write. • In Action: The students will illustrate their own Cat in the Hat with the materials given.

  9. REFERENCES • http://www.seussville.com/lb/bio.html • http://www.nea.org/readacross/resources/seussbiography.html • http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/dr__seuss.html • http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/bloom.html • http://www.teachingheart.net/miniunitcathat.html

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