Thirty-four words from Dr. Seuss books and his birthday week, from the Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham to the Lorax and the Grinch, on unique printable cards.
34 items · a 5 × 5 card with a free space needs 24 or more. More items make the cards differ.For review bingo, type answer | clue (“56 | 7 × 8”): the card shows the answer, the caller reads the clue. Two columns pasted from a spreadsheet work too. Start a line with an emoji (“🐶 dog”) for a picture square.
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30 different cards. No two are the same. The card number and set number on every card let the caller check a winner (press C while calling).
About this set
Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts, and his birthday is the day schools across the country hold Read Across America. This set uses the titles and characters children know best: The Cat in the Hat with Thing One and Thing Two, Green Eggs and Ham with Sam-I-Am, Horton Hears a Who! and the Lorax with its Truffula trees, the Grinch and Cindy Lou Who in Whoville, and the rhyme books Fox in Socks, Hop on Pop and One Fish Two Fish. It also names the ideas the books teach, such as rhyme and reading. These cards are an unofficial classroom activity and are not made or endorsed by Dr. Seuss Enterprises.
Grades: Pre-K to 3rd grade. Best in: March.
The words on the cards
Dr. Seuss · Theodor Geisel · The Cat in the Hat · Thing One · Thing Two · Green Eggs and Ham · Sam-I-Am · Horton · Horton Hears a Who! · The Lorax · Truffula trees · The Grinch · Whoville · Cindy Lou Who · Max · One Fish Two Fish · Fox in Socks · Hop on Pop · Yertle the Turtle · The Sneetches · Oh, the Places You’ll Go! · Rhyme · Read Across America · March 2 · Springfield · Red fish · Blue fish · Hat · Green eggs · Mr. Knox · Nonsense words · Silly · Read · Imagination
How to play, and five ideas
Read-aloud bingo: read a Dr. Seuss book aloud, and have students cover the character or title when they hear it.
Rhyme call: instead of the word, call a rhyme (“a word that rhymes with hat”) and have students cover the matching word.
Read Across America: end the day with the winner reading a page of a favorite book to the class.
Title sort: after the game, sort the squares into book titles and characters.
Favorite vote: students tally their favorite book from the squares and graph the result.
No. This is a free classroom activity that names books and characters. It is not made, sponsored or endorsed by Dr. Seuss Enterprises.
When is Dr. Seuss’s birthday?
March 2. Read Across America Day, run by the National Education Association, is held around that date.
Can I change the words?
Yes. The 34 words are in the box above the cards. Delete, add or edit any line and the cards are rebuilt at once. Nothing is saved on our servers.
How do I call the game?
Press “Call the game”. Each press of the space bar tumbles the ball cage and pops out the next item in very large type, with the list of items already called beside it. Press C and type a card number to check a winner, P to change the win pattern, V to have each call read aloud, and F to fill the projector.
How do I save the cards as a PDF?
Press Print and choose “Save as PDF” as the printer. Each page can also be saved as a PNG picture from under its preview.
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