Hi, Helen, what do you think of our class in Children's Literature?
It looks pretty good. Are you also majoring in Elementary Education?
Yes. I can use this to fulfill the requirement for my course.
Have you finished the first assignment yet?
Not yet. I just bought the books today. How about you?
I started this afternoon. It's great fun reading those wonderful children stories by Doctor Seuss.
Doctor Seuss? I don't remember seeing his name on the reading list.
His full name's Theodore Seuss Geisel. You can find this name on the reading list. Doctor Seuss is his pen name.
I love reading those stories as a child. It'll be interesting to read them now from a different point of view. I guess they'll give me a good idea of how children think.
Those stories are also great for classroom use.
How's that?
Well, take a typical Doctor Seuss's book like The Cat in the Hat. It has a controlled vocabulary of only two hundred words.
So that means the children get lots of practices using a small number of words over and over again.
Exactly. In fact The Cat in the Hat was written mainly to show how a controlled-vocabulary book could also be interesting and fun.