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Looking for Dr Seuss Books? This is a list of Dr. Seuss books by reading level. It’ll help kids who are learning to Read with Dr. Seuss!
See Below to download a PDF of this reading list.
My daughter learned to read this year. I love teaching a child to read and watching as it finally begins to click in their minds. I love seeing the excitement as they take off with reading and you can hardly pull them out of a book.
Early reader books such as the Bob Books are so wonderful for helping kids learn to read. However, something I feel is really important for beginning readers is to show them that they can read “real” books, too.
I love using picture books to help teach my kids to read. This year we have been learning to read with Dr. Seuss.
Dr Seuss books are perfect beginner books for early readers. They have simple rhyming words that help kids learn beginning and ending sounds of words.
Did you know that many of the Dr. Seuss books have very easy reading levels that young readers can use to practice reading? I have stacks of Dr. Seuss books because we all love them in our house. Today I’ll share with you a list of Dr. Seuss books by reading level if you read on!
When my kids reach a point where they can read their practice books and are bored with them I pull out the picture books and we read them together. It always seems to excite them about reading and make them hunger for more.
My daughter needed that little push this year to help her. As soon as she realized that she could read 80-90% of the words in some of the Dr. Seuss books, she literally took the whole stack to her room and read for days. I was so proud of her and loved seeing her explore reading with such excitement!
I found a list of Dr. Seuss books on the Scholastic website and searched through a few other sites to compile the following list of Dr. Seuss books by reading level. These are the equivalent reading levels of the Dr. Seuss books.
Knowing this helped me choose the right books for my daughter to begin with on her reading journey. Hop on Pop was the first book we started with. Dr. Seuss books are pretty long for a beginning reader, so we took it a little at a time to start out.
List of Dr. Seuss Books by Reading Level
DOWNLOAD the PDF DR Seuss Books by Reading Level Here!
Dr. Seuss Books- Reading Level 0-1
The Eye Book
The Foot Book
Great Day For Up!
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
The Shape of Me and Other Stuff
Hop on Pop
One Fish Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Green Eggs and Ham
Ten Apples Up on Top
Wacky Wednesday
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
Hooper Humperdink
In a People House
Dr Seuss Books- Reading Level 2
The Cat in the Hat
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
Dr. Seuss’s ABC’s
Fox in Sox
The Cat’s Quizzer
I Can Read With my Eyes Shut
There’s a Wocket in My Pocket
The Tooth Book
I Am Not Going to Get Up Today!
I Wish I Had Duck Feet
Please Try to Remember the First of Octember!
Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo
I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today
Dr. Seuss Books- Reading Level 3
And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street
Horton Hatches the Egg
Horton Hears a Who!
McElligot’s Pool
Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose
Bartholomew and the Oobleck
The Butter Battle Book
If I Ran the Circus
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Yertle the Turtle
Happy Birthday To You!
The Lorax
Did I Ever Tell you How Lucky You Are?
The Sneetches
Dr. Seuss Books- Reading Level 4
Oh, Say Can You Say?
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
The King’s Stilts
If I Ran the Zoo
Scrambled Eggs Super!
On Beyond Zebra!
Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book
My Daughter LOVED learning to read with Dr. Seuss!
See more of my Dr. Seuss learning ideas:
Make Edible Green Eggs with this fun Chemistry Experiment!
Dr. Seuss Hop on Pop Reading & Spelling Game
How to Make Oobleck: Science with Dr. Seuss!
Color My Feelings ~ My Many Colored Days
Catherine says
This is a great post. We are big fans of Sr Seuss and it’s great to know which books can be read at which level 🙂
Hopping over from the kid lit blog hop.
Sally Spratt says
Great info. Thanks for sharing. Hopped over from the Kit Lit Blog Hop #37.
Tiffiny says
I just saw your link at the Kid Lit Blog Hop. Thanks for compiling this list. I think it could be very helpful to many. I’m going to share it.
Julie Grasso says
Oh, Wow, all the work done for me. My 2.5 year old is really taking an interest in Dr Seuss so this will be an awesome guide for me to use. There are so many, I just don’t know where to start. Thanks so much for a great post and for joining us on the Kid Lit blog Hop
Reshama says
Dr Seuss book are perfect for beginner readers. we loved so many of these. My daughter’s favorite was Red Fish Blue Fish.She used to read it out aloud almost singing it in a rhythm.. that is how I knew she really liked to read and found reading to be enjoyable. For that I have Dr Seuss to thank 🙂
A great list and useful too. Pinning it for others to visit and share.
-Reshama @ Stackingbooks
Jemima Pett says
I completely missed out on Dr Seuss, which these days feels like a big hole in my education! Thanks for showing me the range and helping me understand them better.
Kristi says
Hi Karyn, thanks for posting this list! My seven-year old is needing a little encouragement to want to branch out and read books herself (instead of just being read to), and this list is super helpful in giving me some options for her to read on her own.
Nice work! 🙂
Maureen McDonald says
Thanks for the list! I love the little I’ve read of Dr. Seuss but unfortunately never got to read his books when I was a child. My daughter is learning how to read now and these books are just perfect! So much fun.
Really appreciate this helpful guide for children learning how to read.
Tx.
Karyn Tripp says
You are welcome! So glad to help you!
Jerry Kelling says
Karyn,
Your guidance is amazing and impactful so thank you so much for your help! My 5 year old is an avid reader, starting with Berenstain Bears, Henry & Mudge, Pearl & Wagner, Frog & Toad, and the Fox series. He’s read all of the books in each series a couple of times and he recently has an interest in many of the Dr. Suess books you listed here. Do you have any more book series suggestions? I’m having a difficult time finding new stuff at his reading and interest level so any assistance is very much appreciated. He’s on the 4th Magic Tree House book, “Pirates Past Noon” so glad there are 50+ books in the series to keep his reading abilities growing.
Kind regards, Jerry
Kelsey says
You are literally a life saver
Gowthami Raju says
After searching for an hour, I finally found this proper reading list. Thank you so much.