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Story Time For Kids! Room On The Broom by Julia Donaldson
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Miss Beth from Big City Readers reads Room On The Broom, our Halloween favorite! Julia Donaldson is one of the best authors we love to promote. Find more Halloween stories here!
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Transcript
Introduction to 'Room on the Broom'
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Hello, my friends. It's Miss Beth from Big City Readers. i'm so excited to share one of my very favorite stories to read around Halloween. It's called Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson.
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And Julia Donaldson is one of my very favorite authors. She is an expert at rhyming.
The Importance of Rhyming Skills
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And if you know, at Big City Readers, we often talk about how really strong rhymers become really strong readers. So if you practice your rhyming skills, you're also practicing your reading skills.
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So I'm gonna read you this rhyming story and I might pause before the rhyming word and I wanna see if you can guess what it is. So shout it out if you know the rhyming word.
The Witch's Adventures with Friends
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Room on the broom.
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The witch,
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the witch had a cat and a hat that was black and long ginger hair and a braid down her back. Oh, how the cat purred and how the witch grinned as they sat on their broomstick and flew through the wind.
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You might hear my doggies. But how the witch wailed and how the cat spat when the wind blew so wildly it blew off her
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down cried the witch and they flew to the ground and they searched for the hat but no hat could be found then out of the bushes on thundering paws there bounded a dog with a hat in his jaws he dropped it politely then eagerly said as the witch pulled the hat firmly down on her head i'm a dog as keen as can be is there room on the broom for a dog like me Yes, cried the witch, and the dog clambered on, and the witch tapped the broomstick, and whoosh, they were gone.
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Over the fields and the forest they flew, the dog wagged his tail, and the stormy wind blew. The witch laughed out loud and held on to her hat, but away blew the bow from her braid, just like that.
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Down, cried the witch, and they flew to the ground and they searched for the bow, but no bow could be found. Then out from a tree with an ear-splitting shriek, there flapped the green bird with a bow in her beak.
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She dropped it politely and bent her head low, then said, as the witch tied the braid in her bow, I'm a bird, as green as can be. Is there room on the broom for a bird like me?
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What do you think the witch said?
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cried the witch and the bird fluttered on and the witch tapped the broomstick and whoosh they were gone.
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Over the reeds and the rivers they flew the bird shrieked with glee and the stormy wind blew.
Confrontation with the Dragon
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They shot through the sky to the back of beyond and the witch clutched her bow but let go of her wand.
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Don't, cried the witch, and they flew to the ground, and they searched for the wand, but no wand could be found.
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Then, All of a sudden, from out of the pond, leaped a dripping wet frog with a dripping wet wand. He dropped it politely, then said with a croak, as the witch dried her wand on the fold of her cloak, I'm a frog, as clean as can be.
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Is there room on the broom for a frog like me? Yes, said the witch, the frog bounded on. Then the witch tapped the broomstick, and...
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Whoosh, they were gone. Over the moors and the mountains they flew and the frog jumped for joy.
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And the broom snapped in two. Down by the cat and the dog and the frog, down they went tumbling into a bog. The witch's half broomstick flew into a cloud and the witch heard a roar that was scary and loud.
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What do you think it was?
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I'm a dragon as mean as can be. and witch with french fries tastes delicious to me. No, cried the witch flying higher and higher and the dragon flew after her breathing out fire. Help, cried the witch flying down to the ground and she looked all around but no help could be found.
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The dragon drew near with a glint in his eye. and said just this once, I'll have witch without fries.
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But just as he planned to begin on his feast, from out of a ditch rose a horrible beast. It was tall, dark, and sticky, with feathered and furred. It had four frightful heads. It had wings like a bird.
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in its terrible voice, when it started to speak, was a yell and a growl and a croak and a shriek. It dripped and it squelched as it strode from the ditch and it said to the dragon, buzz off, that's my witch.
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The dragon drew back. And he started to shake. ah I'm sorry, he's buttered, I made a mistake. It's nice to have met you, but now I must fly. And he spread out his wings and flew through the sky. Then down flew the bird and down jumped the frog and down climbed the cat and phew, said the dog. And thank you, oh, thank you, the grateful witch cried.
Building a New Broom
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Without you, I'd be on the dragon's insides. Oh my goodness, all her friends saved the day that she let on the broom. Then she filled up her cauldron and said with a grin, find something, everyone throw something in.
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So the frog found a lily and the cat found a cone and the bird found a twig and the dog found a bone. And they threw them all in and the witch stirred them well. And while she was stirring, she muttered a spell.
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You ready to learn the spell with me?
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Iggy-dee-ziggity-zaggy-zoom. Then out rose a truly magnificent broom with seats for the witch and the cat and the dog and a nest for the bird and a pool for the frog.
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Yes, cried the witch and they all clambered on and the witch tapped the broomstick and whoosh, they were gone.
Reflections and Invitations
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The end.
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Oh my goodness. What did you think of that story? if it was your first time hearing it, I need to know. Did you love it as much as I did? I love, love, love Julia Donaldson. She wrote so many other fabulous books like um one of Miss Beth's favorite, The Giant Jumpery and The Gruffalo um and so many other ones.
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Will you tell me some of your favorite books? Send me a message and I will see if I can add them to the list to do a read aloud for you. And if you liked this story, there's a lot more on my channel at Big City Readers on YouTube or um on our podcast. It's called Play on Words.
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So thanks for hanging out with me. My name is Miss Beth. I love to help kids learn how to read. And I am so glad you're here. If you have any questions, make sure you let me know because I probably have the answer.
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I'll see you next time.