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FAVORITE SPOOKY READ ALOUDS
by Nicole/MO
Oct 16, 2012
Spooky Read Alouds

I have a few favorite spooky halloween-ish books that I choose to read aloud to elementary classrooms around Halloween. I've stuck to the same two stories for the past 10 years because they are fun and frightening and out of print. I like to choose stories that I know the students have never heard of and are folktales.

Since these readings have drawn large crowds of students, I have turned the books into slide shows that can be shown on the projector. I read the books while changing the pictures on the slide show that is projected on the large screen. You can still find these books on meta-book searches that have a large out-of-print selection like [link removed].

1. The Tailypo: A Ghost Story An american folktale Told by Joanna Galdone Illustrated by Paul Galdone Publisher: Clarion ISBN: 0-395-30084-3

I am convinced that this folktale has some realism to it. We are discovering fisher cats in our region and they look quite similar ...See More
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