~Victoria~ Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Do you agree with this list? http://pridelearningcenter.com/2013/07/31/reading-with-dr-seuss-from-easiest-to-hardest/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gil Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 I'm kind of surprised that The Cat in the Hat is considered 2nd grade....I guess because it is so long but it still seems like a 1st grade book to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Well, I don't think any of Dr. Seuss' stuff is 3rd grade level. 3rd grade to me are books like "Sarah, Plain and Tall". 2nd grade to me are books like Magic Treehouse. I would say that most of Dr. Seuss is 1st grade, but the easier ones are kindergarten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acorn Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 First impression: Some of those books are not by Dr. Seuss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Victoria~ Posted April 17, 2014 Author Share Posted April 17, 2014 I know they added theo lesieg books. My son just read I Wish that I had Duck Feet and it was listed on middle second grade level. He is 5 and a good reader, but I wouldn't peg him as 2nd grade. It is a long book, so maybe that is part of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acorn Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 I see a difference in oral and silent reading levels. Some of the tongue twisters are hard for me. My kids could read pages from Cat in Hat and Red Fish, Blue Fish at PreK and K grades, but I don't know that they ever read the entire book aloud at those ages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa B Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 I didn't see one of my favorites anywhere on the list - My Many Colored Days. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheres Toto Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Wacky Wednesday has a lot of puns that wouldn't be understood without a good grasp of homonyms, which seems like it would put it at a higher level. We read a lot of Dr. Seuss type books and it was really hard to find good ones for earlier readers. They often had a few pages that were very simple but some of them would rev up fast, be very long, or have some very unusual words. Fox in Socks starts off very simple and gets harder but I don't remember it getting that hard to be 2nd grade level. Dr. Seuss's ABC - 2nd grade seems pretty high. Going strictly by how many of the words in the book a beginner reader would be able to sound out, I think the list is a bit off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Victoria~ Posted April 18, 2014 Author Share Posted April 18, 2014 http://handsonhomeschooler.com/2012/02/dr-suess-books-listed-by-reading-levels.html This may be a little better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwik Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 I would believe those were the ages they were written for. They were written for children taught only sight words so they couldn't work out unknown stuff. If the words in the book weren't taught until second grade ... I agree the foot book is great for beginner readers and that the lorax is a lot more complicated. I would say the lorax is easily as hard as magic treehouse etc probably harder. My son could read magic treehouse and magic school bus chapter books at 5 but he would have found reading the lorax aloud hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poiema Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 I know they added theo lesieg books. My son just read I Wish that I had Duck Feet and it was listed on middle second grade level. He is 5 and a good reader, but I wouldn't peg him as 2nd grade. It is a long book, so maybe that is part of it. Theo LeSieg is one of his pen names. LeSieg is Geisel backwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Go, Dog, Go should be in the easiest level. How is the ABC book in the second grade? I have a love hate relationship with Dr. Seuss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitten18 Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Go, Dog, Go should be in the easiest level. How is the ABC book in the second grade? I have a love hate relationship with Dr. Seuss. I agree about the love/hate. I feel nostalgic about them and I like the rhyming sing-song style for read alouds. But, I don't teach sight words at all so they were worthless to me as early readers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatteMama Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I think length is the biggest factor in this list. Today my two girls read One Fish, Two Fish to their brother. The 2nd grader had no problem. The K'er lost all interest around the hook cook book. I didn't know Babar or Bernstein Bears were Dr. Seuss.... They weren't written by Dr. Seuss. But they have a Dr. Seuss beginner book picture thing on the cover, maybe because they are both published by Random House. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwik Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 And they were written about the same time for the same purpose. I love the imagery in the lorax such his teeth sounding grey and i line the foot book and old hat new hat, the bike lesson and wheels the rest i can take or leave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MistyMountain Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I think the list is slightly off but not too off. I found the scholastic book wizard to be a good source when dd was still working through reading levels as a way to see what she if a book was something she capable of reading. The list was usually a little off on the grade levels from the few I looked up. I guess they are taking things like length in account but once my ds starts reading books I would like one literally arranged by reading level because it was helpful when dd went through that stage even if the book length is too long. I rather know the actual reading levels not someones opinion on what grade they are good for but I am sure it is helpful for some people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MistyMountain Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Theo LeSieg is one of his pen names. LeSieg is Geisel backwards. Doh! I didn't realize that either! Those books did sound like his style of writing. I should have realized it was him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Hop on Pop is the best first book EVER! The child reads the big words in capitals and the parent reads the regular text, i.,e. Child: ALL BALL Parent: We all play ball. The child slowly reads more and more of the parent's part until s/he finally puzzles out rather than recites "Constantinople and Timbuktu" and remembers that moment for a lifetime. :D Next comes One Fish, Two Fish and then the Cat in the Hat books. The Lorax, the Grinch, the Horton books, and especially The Butter Battle Book are read-alouds and probably too controversial and personal to be appropriate for reading to other people's children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 That list was nonsense to me. Surely Hop on Pop is the easiest Seuss (or LeSieg). And Ten Apples Up on Top is probably next. I think the books they chose were clearly based on sight words, not phonics. Something like He Bear, She Bear (not Seuss, as was pointed out) is easier if you've had a sight word approach. And the idea that some of those books are second grade seemed silly to me too. I guess I think some of Seuss's longer books - Yertle, Sneeches, Butter Battle, Lorax, etc. - are probably 2nd grade books for most kids... but I suspect that, unlike the small form books, they're read aloud more than independently read, making it a bit of a moot point. So, basically, no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsmm Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 I definitely don't agree with the list, however, thanks for posting it. I downloaded from our library two of the beginner Berenstain bear books, and ds read them this morning. He was able to read both (Inside, Outside, Upside down and Bears in the Night), and he was excited to use the ipad for reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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