Join the Nation's Largest Reading Celebration !

NEA's Read Across America is one-day event to celebrate the joy of reading on March 2, Dr. Seuss's birthday and a nationwide initiative that promotes reading every day of the year.

These resources will help you plan "Read Across America" at your school:

• Dr. Seuss Online Activities for Students

• Readquarium: Online reading activities based on the National Reading Panel recommendations
   

New for 2007:

• The Cat In The Hat's 50th Birthday
  Teacher Activity Guide:12 Page Activity Guide

  • Cover Page

  • The Story Behind Dr. Seuss's "The Cat in the Hat"

  • Project 236: What Can You Do?

  • Help First Book by sending a birthday card  to the Cat in the Hat

  • New books  for spring 2007

  • The Cat's Learning Library for beginning readers

  • Leveled series  including age-appropriate font and decodable text

  • Stepping Stones series for grades 1-5

  • The Edge Chronicles  "fantasy" series for grades 4-7

  • Babymouse, The Five Ancestors, and Maude March

  • Yearling and Printz Medal and Honor Winners

All four of the following activities together in one document (PDF format)

• A Classic in 236 Words (PDF format)

• The Cat and Me (PDF format)

• Dr. Seuss’s Who’s Whoses (PDF format)

• World of Seuss Word Search (PDF format)
   

Lesson Plans:

• Dr. Seuss’s Sound Words: Playing with Phonics and Spelling

• Reading Everywhere with Dr. Seuss

• Seuss and Silverstein: Posing Questions, Presenting Points

• Teaching Short Vowel Discrimination Using Dr. Seuss Rhymes

From Previous Years:

• Download the 2005 Read Across America event kit.

• Download Read Across America 2005 printable activities

  • The Many Important Hats!

  • Can You Find the Cats?

  • Where Are the Fish?

  • The Sneetches!

  • Which Words Don't Belong?

  • Cat Tricks!

  • Fun-in-a-Box Cat Crate

• Posters

• Bookmarks

• Certificates of participation

• Logos

• A multicultural calendar

• Hat event info, clip art and bookmarks