To celebrate, of course, everyone needs cake on their birthday. (Image via CakeWrecks, cake by Karen's Specialty Cakes) There is a nice roundup of some Seuss-themed crafts for kids here to get you started - or let your imagination run wild, like the good Dr. Want to extend the joy to some activities, or even a party? It's a great way to solidify what you've read and remind a child of the reading experience, so it's a wonderful idea.

Seuss has crafted the perfect celebration of the person you were born to be. They sure know how to say 'Happy birthday to you' In the picture book Happy Birthday to You, Dr. simply put, if kids enjoy books and the experience of reading and being read to, they will be drawn to doing it more, and who could help but be drawn into the kooky, madcap world in Seuss books? The fact that many of them are beginning readers, too, means that those eager kids can savour the longer stories with readers, but still have fun decoding something easier for themselves. Seuss and the Great Birthday Bird in the ultimate birthday book I wish we could do what they do in Katroo. Speaking of fun, it is another essential reason why Dr. Try letting kids fill in those last words that complete the rhymes - it's a fun game! The ultimate birthday gift for ages one to 101from the one and only Dr.

It makes for fairly fluent reading once you get the metre, and it stresses the ending sounds of words, something that helps kids in their path toward reading by revealing pronunciations, highlighting word families, and making it easier to anticipate that next word. Rhyme, for starters, is a wonderful device, and it's easy to see why it is so widely used in children's works. Instead, I'd like to tell you a little bit about why his books are so wildly recommendable for reading together.

It's tempting to try to set such a post in a bouncy rhyme, of course, but I'm sure there are a few thousand of those sprouted up over the internet today by people far bouncier and rhymier than I. Seuss' birthday! A perfect occasion for celebrating an iconic author, don't you think?

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