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1	[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/readalong.jpg]]
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3	-->''Put yourself in a book, enjoy the story inside,''
4	-->''Read along with us at Readalong and ride ride ride.''
5	-->''Cuz reading is a lot of fun, and easy too.''
6	-->''So join us here at Readalong.''
7	-->''You, and you, and you, and you, and you!''
8	--->'''Intro song'''
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10	''Readalong'' is a {{Canadian\|Series}} {{Edutainment}} Television series by Ken Sobol.
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12	The show was a series of 10-minute episodes devoted to teaching children about how to spell words and what they mean. The main character in the series was [[AnimateInanimateObject a talking boot]] with eyes who simply went by the name [[ADogNamedDog Boot]]. Other characters on the show included Granny and a word salesman. As the series went on, other characters were added, such as Pretty the female shoe, Mr. Bones the skeleton, the talking Hole, and the Haunted House. The show also had a number of instances involving live-action children performing in sketches.
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14	The series premiered on Creator/TVOntario in 1975.
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17	!!''Readalong'' contains examples of:
18	* DemBones: Mr. Bones, who was a living skeleton who would sing songs in the style of "Dem Bones".
19	* DesertSkull: In the shot of "lots of room" in episode 3, which is of a desert, we see a horned skull buried in the sand.
20	* ADogNamedDog: You had Boot the boot, Haunted House the haunted house, and hole the hole.
21	* FakeInteractivity: Characters on the show would often have conversations with the audience, even pausing and talking back to them. Of course, since the show's from TheSeventies, it was as interactive as one would expect.
22	* HauntedHouse: One of the characters introduced during the show's run. It was a house that could talk, and whose door acted as the mouth, opening and closing to whatever it said.
23	* LivingClothes: Boot and Pretty the shoe.
24	* NoFourthWall: Expect to see plenty of instances of the characters talking directly to the audience.
25	* OneWordTitle: This trope seems to apply because "Readalong" was presented as one word.
26	* ParasolParachute: In the animated intro, the last kid to jump into the book pulls out an umbrella and slowly descends into said book.
27	* PinkIsFeminine: Pretty was a female pink shoe.

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