A simple search for Dr. Seuss on-line reveals a wealth of information, both general and specific. Useful websites are categorized under two headings (General Information and Lesson Planning). Several of these websites are published by teachers and private groups/organizations, therefore providing valuable and worthwhile information, although they sometimes contain misspellings of Dr. Seuss’s name. Intentional misspellings are denoted with an asterisks.
These websites offer good general overviews of Dr. Seuss’s background and work, as well as activities for children that would be helpful to elementary school teachers and children’s librarians. In addition, these websites provide links to more information about Dr. Seuss on-line. Also, a website for the North Carolina Character Education Partnership is included for further information about “character education” in North Carolina.
This site, while less professional-looking than others, provides extensive information for the Dr. Seuss enthusiast. Headings include: The Dr. Seuss Store, Analyses of Dr. Seuss, Art, Photos, Waves, etc., Baby’s Room Ideas, Biographical and Reference Information, Browsers and Screen Savers, Cinema and Stage, Games (all games require Shockwave or Java), Links to Links, Parodies, Parties and Activities, Quotes and Early Writings, Recipes Inspired by Dr. Seuss, Site for Teacher, Trivia and Puzzles, Seussian Vacations, Other, Dr. Seuss Webring, and About This Site.
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/nccep
This site contains information about the North Carolina Character Education Partnership, which may be relevant to teachers wishing to incorporate Dr. Seuss books into their curriculum.
http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville
Designed by Random House, this Dr. Seuss site is both colorful and user-friendly for adults and children. It includes many activities for children under the headings: Games, Contests, Events, Catalogue, More Fun, and Ask the Cat. This website could easily be employed in a computer-equipped public library or media center. (All games require Shockwave, but this software can be downloaded from the site.)
These sites are geared toward helping elementary school teachers and children's librarians incorporate Dr. Seuss's books into the curriculum.
*http://www.abcteach.com/reading/suess/suesstoc.htm
This site provides activities to accompany The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, and Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, as well as information about the Read Across America and March Is Reading events.
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/lessons/drseuss.shtml
This site offers simple ideas which compliment The Foot Book, Dr. Seuss’s ABC, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, Green Eggs and Ham, Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories, The King’s Stilts, The Butter Battle Book, Horton Hatches the Egg, Horton Hears a Who, The Shape of Me and Other Stuff, Bartholomew and the Oobleck, Hop on Pop, If I Ran the Zoo, The Lorax, and The Cat in the Hat.
http://www.auburn.wednet.edu/homepages/ilalko/seuss.htm
This site was produced at Ilalko Elementary School in Auburn, Washington. Although it contains some school/state-specific jargon, Dr. Seuss activities for the books The Cat in the Hat, The Lorax, Daisy-Head Mayzie, Green Eggs and Ham, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Horton Hears a Who, And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street, My Many Colored Days, and Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose are clear and descriptive. This site also provides links to additional Dr. Seuss activities.
*http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/9893/thedrsuesspage.html
This site, titled “A Resource for Teachers and Parents,” contains ideas, games, and lessons for incorporating Dr. Seuss into one’s daily repertoire of reading activities.
http://www.hometown.aol.com/jergholloway/ATTILIWSindex.html
Designed by two teachers, this site is intended to help others use Dr. Seuss books “to celebrate reading and learning.” Activities for specific Dr. Seuss books are organized according to the following headings: Language Arts, Math, Science, Writing, Social Studies, Art, Physical Education, or Music.
Sponsored by the National Education Association, the official site for the Read Across America event on March 1, 2001 (in honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday on March 2, 1904), provides updates, information about how to get involved, resources, etc.
http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/university/parents.html
Another webpage by Random House, this site is specifically geared toward helping children to learn through Dr. Seuss books. The activities are hosted by appropriate Dr. Seuss characters: “Horton the Elephant hosts the reading area, where children will learn such concepts as letter recognition, the sounds of letters, and rhyming words. Yertle the Turtle hosts the math area, where children will learn to recognize numerals and number words, to count, and to do simple addition. The Lorax hosts the science area, where children will be introduced to animal categories, basic astronomy, and ecology. Sam-I-Am hosts the reasoning area, where children will compare size, numbers, patterns, and directions, and learn about opposites.” (As with http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville, this site’s activities require Shockwave to run, as well as Adobe Acrobat 3.0 Reader Software to print, but this software can be downloaded from the site.)