Literacy+Home+Base


 * The colored, underlined internet links below line (starting with "ABCs") on this Literacy Home Base connect you to the web pages that show and share our "Small Group" reading and writing studies and activities.**

**ABCs** Our first "Reading and Writing" page is called "ABCs". Click on **ABCs** to visit the learning places on the internet that we use to help us learn the shapes and sounds of the English alphabet. Some of us have already started putting shapes and sounds together and are practicing our first "sight" words" with "Sampson".

 Word Families?

**Reading with Dr. Seuss** Have you ever heard of Dr. Seuss? Mohammad told me he had seen a // The Cat in the Hat // movie once. Dr. Seuss is a famous American illustrator and a writer of 44 children's books. His real name was Theodore Seuss  Geisel. Dr. Seuss is his "pen name", the name he used for writing the books he wrote and illustrated. Dr. Seuss's books have been translated in more than 15 languages and are known all over the world. More than 200 million Dr. Seuss books have found a special place in people's homes and hearts all around the world. Dr. Seuss is no longer alive but **every year, on March 2**, everyone who likes to read his books, and that is just about everyone in America, celebrates Dr. Seuss's birthday. On that day readers of all ages in American schools and homes take time to read and share a Dr. Seuss book, just like we will do at school.

Dr. Seuss created and drew all the fun characters for his stories and he used rhyming words to write about them. // The Cat in the Hat //is one of the most popular Dr. Seuss book. In it Dr. Seuss only used 225 "new-reader" vocabulary words, words that are very much like the words you are learning on the computer with "Sight Words with Sampsom". So, // The Cat in the Hat // is a wonderful book for us to read together.  When you learn new English words and you begin to write your first stories, do not stop when it is difficult for you - do not give up! Just think of Dr. Seuss. In the year 1936 the people who make books out of stories (book publishers) did not like Dr. Seuss's first story // And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry  Street //  - not one (1) of forty-three (43) publishers thought it was good enough to publish. Little did they know that sixty-four (64) years later people all over the world would and could read it in their own language!


 * CLICK ON Dr. Seuss's photo UP ABOVE or on the ****Reading with Dr. Seuss**** link** **UP ON TOP of the picture and you will be taken to a special place where you can listen, watch, and read along with 2 Dr. Seuss Beginner Book videos. You will also meet the Cat In The Hat and all his friends!**