This story is perfect to use in teaching making a mental picture! Imagine somebody trying to get you to eat a food that had a new unusual color. How would you feel about a person insisting that you try it?

This text provides good examples of using exclamation points, and question marks to convey meaning. Sam uses the punctuation marks to make several points that he is not going to eat green eggs and ham. Later in the book, he capitalizes the words “ANYWHERE” to emphasize that point to the reader.

The pictures show great facial features and other body language clues to convey additional meaning from the book. Examples include: disgust, surprise, anger, fear, and finally, being pleasantly surprised at the taste of the green eggs at the end of the book.

If the child is familiar with any other Dr. Seuss book, they will already be expecting short words, many 2-4 letters long, rhyming words and repetition throughout the book.