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Green Eggs and Ham – KS1 lesson pack

What's included?

PDF activity sheets and teachers' notes

Key Stage

KS1

Age

Years 1-2

Subjects

Dr Seuss’ classic book Green Eggs and Ham, featuring the famous Sam-I-Am, was first published all the way back in 1960.

Let your Key Stage 1 children play with words and the power of persuasion with this Dr Seuss-inspired teaching plan from HarperCollins. The resource pack includes a teacher’s guide PDF and four printable PDFs of activities.

What they’ll learn

By reading Green Eggs and Ham, talking about the book and taking part in these activities, children will…

  • Enjoy a shared reading experience and build on it
  • Express their opinions about the text and the way it’s written, and listen/respond to the opinions of others
  • Use text and pictures to gain insight into the Grouch’s feelings and discover how they change
  • Explore the idea of persuasion through drama, drawing and creative writing
  • Write their own story with a very limited word count
  • Be inspired to try something new – and have their achievement recognised

Activity 1: Powers of persuasion

This looks at how Sam-I-Am persuades the Grouch to try new things in the book. Students will think about how they feel when someone tries to persuade them to do something.

They will also consider when you should say ‘no’ to someone who wants you to do something.

Finally, they will use the printable worksheet to create a poster or advert persuading people to do something. This could be picking up litter or trying new foods.

Activity 2: Trying something new

Here, pupils will use freeze frames to re-create the four panels where the Grouch tries green eggs and ham. They’ll explore the body language and emotions of the characters.

They will also think about something new they could try, be it food, an activity or another kind of challenge. They’ll write about what they’re going to do, and why. Then they can write a one-sentence resolution on the activity sheet to remind themselves of their promise.

Plus, there’s a downloadable certificate you can present to children when they accomplish their challenge!

Activity 3: Writing like Dr Seuss

Students will become writing and story detectives – revisiting the story looking for rhyme, repetition, jokes, great words and other ways Dr Seuss makes the story come alive.

Then, using the downloadable activity sheet, they can write a simple story using a very limited range of words, like Dr Seuss.

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