Letter L

Sound-Loaded Books

Initial L/l Books Author
Dragons Love Tacos Adam Rubin
Every Little Letter Deborah Underwood
Five Little Ladybugs Melanie Gerth
Groovy Joe: Ice Cream & Dinosaurs Eric Litwin
Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns to Listen Howard Binkow
I Am Dog! Peter Bently
I Love You Like Yellow Andrea Beaty
It Looked Like Spilt Milk Charles Shaw
Lana Llama's Little Lamb Barbara deRubertis
Leaf Man Lois Ehlert
Leo the Lighting Bug Eric Drachman
Library Lion Michelle Knudsen
Like Annie Barrows & Leo Espinosa
Lionel and the Lion’s Share Lou Peacock
Little Cloud Eric Carle
Llama Llama (Series) Anna Dewdney
Love Matt de la Peña
Love Monster Rachel Bright
Lupe Lopez: Reading Rock Star! e.E. Charlton-Trujillo & Pat Zietlow Miller
Lupe Lopez: Rock Star Rules! e.E. Charlton-Trujillo & Pat Zietlow Miller
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes Eric Litwin
Swing Michael Hall
The Leaf Thief Alice Hemming
The Luckiest Leprchaun Justine Korman
Watch Out for the Lion! Brooke Hartman
Final l Books Author
Ball Mary Sullivan
A Big Guy Took My Ball! Mo Willems
Crab and the Whale Mark Pallis & Christiane Kerr
Rumble in the Jungle Giles Andreae
Tall Jez Alborough
Watch Me Throw the Ball! Mo Willems
Where's My Tail Susan Schafer
Who's Making That Smell? Philip Hawthorn

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Activities & Snacks

Activities:

  • Compare “large” and “little” objects!
  • Find pictures of objects that begin with the /l/ sound with a light.
  • Glue cotton balls onto a lamb made of construction paper. Practice the /l/ sound each time a cotton ball is placed on the lamb
  • Go fishing for ‘L’s in a pretend lake!
  • Leap over paper lily pads with the letter ‘l’ or pictures of objects that begin with the /l/ sound on the lily pads!
  • Make “lips” out of red paper and add lima beans for teeth!
  • Make a book! Write “I love ____” at the bottom of each page.  Let the child draw pictures of their favorite things on each page and fill in the blank.
  • Make ladybugs (add some ‘l’ vocabulary words under the wings).
  • Make lighting bugs! Name lighting bugs with ‘l’ names and place them in jars under lids!
  • Make lions! Add long and short pieces of yarn for a mane.
  • Play “Follow the Leader”
  • Sing “Five Little Speckled Frogs”
  • Squeeze lemons and make lemonade with a long spoon!
  • Use a toy lawn mower to mow over green ‘l’ letters!
  • Write a letter to a loved one
  • Go on a walk and look for ladybugs

Snacks:

  • Fruit Loops
  • Ladybugs on logs (celery, cream cheese and raisins)
  • Lemon pie
  • Lemon pudding
  • Lemonade
  • Lemons
  • Licorice (shape the licorice to resemble the letter ‘l’)
  • Lima beans
  • Limes
  • Linguini
  • Lollipops
  • Long string cheese