Read Across America

NEA's Read Across America is an annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading on March 2

The Purpose of Read Across America
Motivating children to read is an important factor in student achievement and creating lifelong successful readers. Research has shown that children who are motivated and spend more time reading do better in school.

I love to read, and have always!! I read mostly Sci. Fi, Fantasy, and Mysteries, but it was not always like this.

I have been a special education teacher for over 24 years, and have always read to my students. I even read to my high school kids.

I really love Theodore Giesel, not sure who that is?
What if I said he was called himself Dr.?

Still not sure, what if I said he used his middle name, which was also his mother's maiden name?

Still need some help? He wrote a book with 220 words that every new-reader needs to know.

DR. SEUSS!!!

Dr. Seuss, or Theodore Giesel, was born March 2, 1904. He wrote many books, but his first children's book was And To Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street. But did you know he sent it off 27 times and it was rejected 27 times!! Talk about perseverance

Houghton-Miflfin and Random House asked Dr. Seuss to write a children’s primer book with new –reader vocabulary. Just using 220 words and he wrote The Cat in the Hat. The rest as they say is history.

But, did you know that Dr. Seuss also wrote political cartoons? And some of his books had underlying meanings.

He even wrote a book for adults: The Seven Lady Godivas.

I still have the first Dr. Seuss my parents bought me, so enjoy some magical rhyming with Dr. Seuss and read to your child to get them into a lifelong habit of reading.

But don't stop today, read everyday with them.