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PSPKK123 November 24, 2015  •  16 Comments

Free community helper emergent readers

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Today I’m sharing a set of three free community helper emergent readers! 

This set of community helpers emergent readers comes in three levels of difficulty! They're perfect for differentiating in preschool or kindergarten.

It’s time for another set of Color Me Readers!  As part of our Community Helpers unit, I created eleven predictable books for preschoolers and kindergartners. These are great for teaching concepts of print and simple sight words.

Today I’m sharing three of those books for free!

This set of community helpers emergent readers comes in three levels of difficulty! They're perfect for differentiating in preschool or kindergarten.

I began by showing my Three the sight word that would reappear in each of the books.  While he still isn’t able to memorize sight words, I wanted to emphasize that the letters t, h, and e make a word.

We are still working on the concept of letter, word, and sentence.

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This set of community helpers emergent readers comes in three levels of difficulty! They're perfect for differentiating in preschool or kindergarten.

I asked him to find the word the in the first book.  This was easy, since it was the first word in the sentence.

This set of community helpers emergent readers comes in three levels of difficulty! They're perfect for differentiating in preschool or kindergarten.

After I modeled the pattern of the book, he was able to read it himself.

This set of community helpers emergent readers comes in three levels of difficulty! They're perfect for differentiating in preschool or kindergarten.

We moved on to the second book, which was much harder for him.  Tracking print of more than a couple of words throws him for a loop, even if he has the pattern memorized.

This set of community helpers emergent readers comes in three levels of difficulty! They're perfect for differentiating in preschool or kindergarten.

To help him out, I added a dot below each word.  While this doesn’t help him learn sight words, that’s not the goal yet.  It does help him separate the sentence into individual words.  And that’s our focus right now.

The third book was too hard for him, so I read it to him instead. You’ll find it in the download at the end of this post.

This set of community helpers emergent readers comes in three levels of difficulty! They're perfect for differentiating in preschool or kindergarten.

After all the hard work was done, he was happy to start coloring!

How to assemble

1. Print the four pages for each book, single sided.

  • Level 1 – pages 2-5
  • Level 2 – pages 6-9
  • Level 3 – pages 10-13

2. Cut along the bold lines on each page.

3. Stack the pages together to make each book.

4. Staple along the left side of each book.

Get the complete set of community helper activities!

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16 Comments

  1. kim

    January 29, 2016 at 5:53 pm

    thank you for all your wonderful little readers! I teach special education and these are perfect!

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    • Anna Geiger

      January 31, 2016 at 7:58 pm

      You’re very welcome, Kim! I’m so glad you can use them!

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  2. Ayla

    October 18, 2016 at 11:39 pm

    Like all of your amazing early readers, my kids loved these! Thank you so much! If you don’t mind me asking, what program did you make the books in? Or more specifically, the character images?

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    • Anna Geiger

      October 19, 2016 at 5:37 am

      I use MS Publisher or Powerpoint. If you download the file and check the Terms of Use page, you’ll see the clip art credit.

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  3. Stephanie Douglas

    September 10, 2017 at 8:14 am

    Would you be willing to share the powerpoint template used to make half sheet books? I am hoping to make with my son’s name in them to help him recognize his written name in a sentence.

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    • Anna G

      October 2, 2017 at 10:18 pm

      Hi Stephanie! For copyright reasons, I don’t share my templates. It’s really easy though – just make two big text boxes and add images and text.

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  4. Ruth

    November 4, 2018 at 3:21 pm

    Thank you for the little readers. My students will love them.

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      November 8, 2018 at 7:21 am

      You’re very welcome, Ruth! I hope this helps you!

      Reply to this comment
  5. es

    February 29, 2020 at 7:02 pm

    I can’t download this and and many other cute books.

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    • Kate Dowling

      March 2, 2020 at 4:31 pm

      Hello Es!
      This is Kate, Anna’s assistant. What happens when you click the green download box? If it’s un-clickable, you need to turn off your ad blocker. Then you’ll enter your email address and the file will be sent to you. I just tested it, and it works. Thanks for giving it another try!

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  6. Phyllis-Anne Oliver

    March 6, 2020 at 6:32 am

    Hi Anna,
    I can not seem to get the community helpers reader to print. Can you please help. These readers are great for my ESL students.
    Thanks so much. Phyllis

    Reply to this comment
    • Kate Dowling

      March 6, 2020 at 4:07 pm

      Hi Phyllis-Anne! This is Kate, Anna’s assistant. I would love to help! Did you click the green link above and enter your email address? The file should have been sent to your inbox right away. Then when you click the link in your email, the file will open. For best results, open the file and print from within Adobe Reader. If you don’t already have the latest version of this free program on your computer, you can get it for free here: https://get.adobe.com/reader/. Please let us know if you tried all these things and still had trouble. Let us know in detail what kind of trouble you’re having. Thanks!

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