R is for... runcible spoon? Reaganomics? Rogaine? I don’t know. Apparently I never did a storytime for the letter R, and I don’t have any quick thoughts now. Sure, there are tons of books with Read or Reading in the title, but which ones are good and not preachy?
In any case, if I don’t want to run late to work — sorry, run later than usual — I’ve got to leave the letter R to you, my blog readers. Please, help me out.
The Letter R
. . . rabbits?
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I was thinking rabbit, too -- maybe the new DUCK? RABBIT! (Is that workable for story time?) How about LEMONS ARE NOT *R*ED? MISS *R*UMPHIUS?
ReplyDeleteRED SLED by Patricia Thomas
ReplyDeleteRapunzel, illus. by Paul O. Zelinsky
Ricky Ticky Tavi?
Lesse, how about:
ReplyDeleteNAKED MOLE *R*AT GETS DRESSED by our man Mo
(I don't know how well this would work for a readaloud) HIPPO! NO, RHINO by Jeff Newman
ROADWORK by Sally Sutton
For songs, you could do Ram Sam Sam or anything by Raffi (Apples and Bananas, anyone?)
Lots of nice Raccoon picture books: RACCOON TUNE by Nancy Shaw and the KISSING HAND series by Audrey Penn. For Rabbits, I really like RABBIT EARS by Amber Stewart. There is also RATTLETRAP CAR by Phyllis Root. I am doing a Letter R storytime next week. I will post anything else I used for it.
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ReplyDeleteI gotta go with reptiles!
ReplyDeleteAlligators and Crocs
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
Counting Crocodiles
What Time Is It, Mr. Crocodile?
Zack's Alligator
Alligator Boy
Snakes
Verdi
The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash
Snake Alley Band
Mouse Count
Turtles
Turtle Splash! Countdown at the Pond
Yertle the Turtle
Emma's Turtle
That's all I can think of off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are more!
"Red" storytimes are fun. Or, how about "Rhythm" or "Rhymes"(or both)? Lots of great emergent literacy tie -ins with those.
ReplyDeleteAnd EM, Duck?Rabbit! does work in storytime!
Miss Rumphius? See Fuse 8's picture book post for today or was it yesterday?
ReplyDeleteRain goes with flowers. Peter Spier's Rain.
My Red Umbrella by Robert Bright.
Rain Makes Applesauce by Scheer and BIleck. (one of my favorite read alouds many, many years ago)
Rain Drop Splash by Alvin Tresselt.
I'll contribute Ruby the Copycat by Peggy Rathman. How she came to write and publish her first picture book is a fabulous story you probably know from her Caldecott award speech... that speech is one of my favorites ever.
ReplyDeleteHow about that song, "The red, red robin keeps bob, bob, bobbin' along..."? Oooh or "Rockin' Robin" Can you play "Red Rover" at storytime? Probably not.
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ReplyDeleteHello, Robots by Bob Staake
Rolie Polie Olie by William Joyce
Sammy and the Robots by Ian Whybrow
If I Had a Robot by Dan Yaccarino
Cosmo and the Robot by Brian Pinkney
Activity: Dancing like a robot!
Rutabaga and Rapscallion!
ReplyDeleteThat would be a great name for a kid's book... "The Unlikely Adventures of Rutabaga and Rapscallion."
Saints and Sinners recommended RUBY THE COPYCAT which prompts me to recommend a look at a number of RUBY books. I collect books with "RUBY" in the title as it is my mother's name and before her death I gave them to her on special occasions to have for her grandchildren....RUBY'S WISH by Shirin Yim is probably my favorite.
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