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Thursday, February 23, 2012

The Good Doctor Seuss, Green Grinches, and a Lorax who Speaks for Trees - Lily's Blackboard – Lily's Blackboard

The Good Doctor Seuss, Green Grinches, and a Lorax who Speaks for Trees - Lily's Blackboard – Lily's Blackboard:

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The Good Doctor Seuss, Green Grinches, and a Lorax who Speaks for Trees

March 2nd was chosen by the National Education Association years ago to celebrate NEA’s Read Across America Day.

It’s Dr. Seuss’s birthday, and each year is another chance to celebrate a joy that goes beyond sounding out the word and improving one’s vocabulary. Teachers and college professors and school custodians and librarians and bus drivers will be reminding their students that reading is fun.

School lunch ladies will be scrambling Green Eggs and Ham. School principals will be showing kids How to Eat Fried Worms. There will be Read-a-Thons and authors talking about books that make them cry and book illustrators demonstrating their craft.

Governors will do photo ops with a Cat-in-the-Hat hat. Oh, The Places We Will