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IMPORTANT NOTICE: As I study more about how children’s brains learn to read, I’m revising my approach. In good conscience, I can no longer share these sight word books because they do not align with best practice. These will be removed form my site and shop on March 22. Please download any files you would like by that date. 

 

Download each set individually

You can find the post which shares each set of readers by clicking below.  When you get to the post, scroll to the bottom to download the set of readers.

 

 

More books!

After creating the first 26 sets to use alongside Reading the Alphabet, I had requests for more books, so I created additional sets.

Note: If your child is reading these books, s/he moving at a quicker pace.  For that reason, each set may introduce more than one new sight word.

 

How to assemble the readers

sight word reader assembly1

1. Print the readers front to back.  Each two-sided page is a single book.  Cut across the horizontal center of the book.

sight word reader assembly2

2. Fold the two half sheets and insert the middle pages.

sight word reader assembly3

3. Unfold and staple with a long arm stapler.

 

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234 Comments

  3. Megan Diller

    I just recently found your blog and I love it! Quick question about these printable books. Is this the level you start your kids? These seem a bit advanced for beginning readers. I am a preschool teacher and I’m looking for something to start reading with my 4 and 5 year olds.

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    • Anna Geiger

      Hi Megan,
      I start with the very first set when I begin teaching my kids to read (just 2 words per page). In my experience, my own kids are ready to memorize a few sight words and figure out words with pictures cues before they are ready to sound out words. I definitely recommend Reading the Alphabet (see image in my sidebar), which is by a mother and reading specialist. My sight word readers follow her curriculum, but they do advance much more quickly than hers do.

      Alongside the readers I do beginning sounds activities and then reading with word families (see my printables page for those) as my kids are ready. My own children are usually read to start sounding out around age 4, but it’s a while before it gets easy for them.

      I don’t believe in starting reading with just decodable books (such as Bob Books) because all that sounding out is laborious for young kids – also the books often don’t make sense because they’re using just words you can sound out.

      If you look through the emergent reader posts you’ll see my tips for how to use them. Ask any more questions if you have them!

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      • Megan Diller

        Thanks so much! I think I may have to purchase Reading Through the Alphabet. I have a degree in Elementary Education, but I feel like I need more training on emergent readers. Your blog will be a great resource, thank you!

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  4. Phyllis Ehresman

    Your printable books are absolutely wonderful. The 13the set is perfect for the K class where I volunteer. They are going to be so excited to see them on Monday. There is no way to adequately thank you for making these available.

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  6. Jeanine

    Good Day Anna! Thank you for sharing your resources with your audience of readers here! I am wondering about WHERE TO START with this Reading the Alphabet and Reading stuff itself. My LO has developmental delays but is fine to be in a regular classroom. They’re slight delays. I have a long story but, would just first like to know if you could point me in the right direction with assisting her in learning the alphabet by SIGHT (outside of the “letter a week” activities we already do. she gets bored with those) so that I will be able to monitor her Reading at Home, outside of school. I want to have her ready for her second year in Kindergarten (called Senior Kindergarten here in Canada) where she will be attending a regular classroom and bused to School like her friends. Now shes in a Daycare Ctr Junior Kindergarten Program per-say where they use the guidelines for learning but its NOT all learning all the time. I don’t see her producing the work her friends do that go to a regularly schooled Junior Kindergarten Program. (Due to her Developmental Delays she could NOT have gone there this year) Anyway, What is the specific Post you think I should start at for her learning the Alphabet by sight, then moving forward to Sight WORDS later….What order should I work in? Maybe you could Email Me: Jeaniney25@hotmail.com ???
    Soo many thanks for your valuable time and energy in responding ;D
    Sincere thanks, Jeanine from Canada Your new follower

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    • Anna Geiger

      Hello, Jeanine! I’d be happy to work with you as best I can. I did send you an email, so if you didn’t receive it, be sure to reply to this comment and I’ll try again. You may want to check your spam folder.

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    • Anna Geiger

      Hi Beth,
      Can you tell me which one you’re having trouble with? When you click on the link to the readers, you need to go all the way down to the end of the post to get the readers. It will say something like

      Get the readers here …. and then has something underlined in green, like “Measured Mom Emergent Readers Set 1.” Click on that and you should be able to print. Let me know if this helps and if you still need help!

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    • Anna Geiger

      Hello! I think at the end of each post I share how to assemble the books. After you cut across the horizontal center of the pages, fit the pages together according to the page numbers. Staple with a long armed stapler and fold. Hope that makes sense!

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  9. Jenny

    I am so in love with everything on your website/blog and I thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to “help” those of us in need of additional material to educate our children. I have been printing and using your emergent readers for awhile now and for some reason can not get the newest one ~ #17 “up”. It won’t “highlight” on your page like all the others do and so it will not allow me to access that book. Can you help?

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  10. Natalie Clark

    Hello, Anna!
    My son and I love the resources on your site! In fact, he prefers your emergent reader booklets over any of our “expensive” readers! I was wondering, do you have any emergent readers on the subject of Spring or perhaps on plants? Thanks!

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  12. Kris

    My LO just turned three this last month. She doesn’t know her letters very well (she loves numbers). I’m wanting to homeschool but have no idea where to even start with her. Any advice and nudge in the right direction would be appreciated.

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  14. Lou Franz

    Your site is wonderful! I’ve been reading from a lot of sites but yours really got me!

    Your resources are perfect! Thank you so much for putting an effort into everything. Not only do you give us the resources but the instructions do help a lot!

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  15. shaya

    thank yo Anna for always sharing your amazing works, God bless you and your family. as you mentioned in here you are using Mama’sReading the Alphabet curriculum, is it good for preschooler? I have seen it but it is not that easy and the kids who use it must now all the alphbet before using it? I want to teach my students phonics and reading, would you please advice me? any idea would be great

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    • Anna Geiger

      Hi Shaya, Reading the Alphabet is very good, but it is designed for kids who speak English, not for a second language preschool like yours. I can see that it would be too difficult and move at too rapid a pace for your purposes. I do think it is helpful if kids know all or most of the alphabet before using it. For your students I would first focus on learning the letters and their sounds in fun ways. You can also start with a VERY simple sight word vocabulary. I did email you a link to the Dolch sight word lists which you can start with.

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  16. Marisa

    Thank you for sharing your Emergent Readers! I am a Kindergarten teacher and happened to stumble across them while on my summer break, and will love utilizing them this coming school year.

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  18. Samantha McCartney

    Thank you so much for sharing these! My special needs son will be 8 in December, and is at a pre-k reading level, so these will be perfect… I just starting to homeschool as the program(s) were not meeting his needs. Finding resources like yours are making this adventure much more enjoyable and will greatly help us succeed! Thanks, again!

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    • Anna Geiger

      You’re very welcome, Samantha! I’m so glad you’re finding things you can use. If you haven’t visited thisreadingmama.com yet, be sure to check out her site. She has lots of freebies too, mostly literacy related.

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    • Anna Geiger

      HI Melissa!

      You can’t download the readers on this page. This page gives you an overview of all my sets. If you click on the set you’re looking for, you will get to a post about those readers. Scroll all the way down to the end of that particular post, and you’ll find the download link. Let me know if you still can’t find it!

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    • Anna Geiger

      Hi Gladys,

      As it says above, “You can find the post which shares each set of readers by clicking below. A sample page and the new sight word are displayed on each image. When you get to the post, scroll to the bottom to download the set of readers.”

      This page does not have the pdf’s — it’s just showing you all the sets. If you click on an image you will get to the post which tells about the books. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the post to get the pdf. Hope this helps!

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  25. Rebecca P

    THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for such a wonderful resource!!! We have been looking for a variety of things to use to work on things at home with our daughter too in conjunction with what she’s learning at school. These books are just a step up from the ones she reads at school, and gives us some more fun things for her to read to us 🙂 We’ll be using them for her and our son who is in Preschool right now too!

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  26. Emily

    I’m so excited about these books! My only question is this–is there a way to print and make these books work without double-sided printing? Forgive me if this question has already been asked. Thank you!

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    • Anna Geiger

      Hi Emily! They are designed to work double sided. You could always print the even pages (page 1 is my Terms of Use) and then reinsert into your printer and print the odd pages beginning with page 4. If you don’t want to do that, you can print as is, cut the pages apart, and staple. That will be quite time-consuming, though!

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  27. Cynthia Barboza

    These little books are amazing. Thank you soooooo much.
    I live in Mexico, we can’t afford to buy books! The library is far and the books are very old and torn and you can’t check them out!

    These are a blessing. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. :’)

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    • Anna Geiger

      Hurray, Melissa! I’m so happy to hear that your students read and love my little books! I can’t wait to create more of them. Some of the middle sets accelerate a little quickly. In the new year I plan to adjust them (still offering the more challenging versions) so they go at a more reasonable pace. And I do plan to offer more sets in the future.

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  30. Alaina

    These are great! I just started going through Reading the Alphabet with my almost 4 year old and 2.5 yr old. Little brother always wants to do what big brother is doing. It is perfect because my little guy can learn his letters and sounds wile big brother can learn the beginner reading. These readers with be a perfect addition to our homeschool preschool. We will be starting our first word family lessons next week so I will definitely be coming back to your page. Thanks for sharing all your hard work!

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  31. Hajira

    Just to say I love the content on your page. My youngest has just started Standard 1, we live in Francistown Botswana Africa. My daughter enjoys all the worksheets I print for and since she has started reading I have printed the sight word readers for her.

    Thank you sooo much for your AMAZING page.

    Stay Blessed

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    • Anna Geiger

      Hi Leah,

      As it states above, this is a page that showcases each of the readers, but you can’t download them here. Click on the image for the set you want (“transportation” for example), and that will bring you to the post where I shared the set. Scroll down to the end of the post, and you will see something like “Get your free books HERE.” Click on the word HERE, and you should be all set. Come back to this page if you want to find a link to a new set.

      Hope this helps!

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  33. marina

    I really love your books and all the things you propose!
    I have a question: why do you use lowercase letters instead of capital letters for little children?
    is there a theory about teaching reading to little ones that is preferible to teach lowercase rather than capital letters?
    thanks.

    marina

    ps: I hope my question is understandable, I’m from italy and I’m trying to improve my english…

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    • Anna Geiger

      Hello, Marina! I think for very young children (18 months – 2 years), capital letters are best to start with when teaching them to recognize letters. But when children are ready to read simple books they’re also ready to recognize but upper and lowercase letters. Plus, since all other books they’re going to try to read will use lowercase letters, it makes sense to put those in mind too. I’m doing a letter of the week with my 3 year old and teaching upper and lowercase letters at the same time. He’s recognizing all the uppers as I teach them and some of the lowers. He’s not ready to read yet, but when he is I think he’ll know them both.

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      • marina

        thanks for the quick answer!
        I’m a teacher in a pubblic infantry school (3 to six years old). we usually introduce only capital letters, preferring to leave lowercases to the next level of education. but maybe I could reconsider this thing…

        GREAT JOB YOU ARE DOING! THANKS THANKS THANKS

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  34. Noraan

    Thank you Anna for your awesome blog and for your creative ideas. I am a preschooler teacher and this is my first year, I did not what to do till I found your blog 🙂 Quick question; my preschoolers started their sight words, Do you think it is better to use these awesome books in order? Thank you again for these awesome books 🙂

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    • Anna Geiger

      Hi Noraan! I think for preschool it would be best to do these in order. For older children who are already reading quite a bit it wouldn’t matter as much. You will probably find that some of them are ready to move more quickly than others. I’d encourage you to let them go at their own pace. The middle and later sets were hard for my son when he was 3, but now that he’s 4 (close to 5) he’s doing really well them.

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  35. Crystal

    Hi, I was wondering if these are on the site somewhere in an ebook format? I looked at the separate links and didn’t see any.

    I’ll just have to pick a fight with my printer to make it work if not!

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  37. Tiffany

    Thank you so much for these books! I just found them the other day and printed a couple out. My boys (6 and 4) have fallen in love with them. I mentioned them on my blog tonight, and shared them with another homeschool mom. We just got our long-arm stapler today and should get more paper tomorrow. Can’t wait to print more! Thanks again.

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  38. kelly long

    I’ve just come across your website and love it. What a great resource, I’m going to start by using some of your amazing emergent reader books, having these will save me so much time and money since it is so hard to find good fun readers at this level! Thanks so much.

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    • Anna Geiger

      Hello, Kelly! I agree that it’s so hard to find emergent reader books for early readers. I’m glad you can save some money and use the ones you find here! I hope you keep finding things you can use. 🙂

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    • Anna Geiger

      Hello, Kelly,

      Yes I do have plans for those words, but not for quite a while yet. I probably will not be publishing too many new sets over the summer – things get very busy at our house with my husband’s giant garden! So, yes, they’re coming, but they’re likely quite a few months out yet.

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  40. Maria

    Thank you for a terrific website! I don’t normally leave comments on blogs, but felt that you deserved to know how much I appreciate the time, energy, and effort that you’ve put into your website! I am using many of the resources in my summer school class. The students all receive special education and range from non-readers to emergent readers. I was not given any money for supplies, so to come across your website with all of its free materials was extremely fortunate for me, the assistants for whom I have to create lesson plans, and the children who will benefit tremendously! Thank you!

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    • Anna Geiger

      Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a comment for me, Maria! And I’m thrilled that my materials can benefit the children in your summer school. I know how expensive little books and other resources can be. I’m glad my printables can benefit people like you! I hope your summer school is going well.

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  41. Dashaina

    Hi Anna,
    My mother bought this series from your store yesterday and never received a download link or any information about how to get the files. We tried emailing you as well, but am not sure that you have received our messages. Please let me know how we can aquire the files. I’ve also tried downloading them through the individually method and keep getting an error message.

    Thanks for your assistance!
    Dashaina

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  44. Ami Kanani

    Thanks, these are great! I just bought the bundle pack for $10. Does that mean you are going to send me printed copies and the dividers? Or do I still need to print them all myself? 🙁 Wanted to avoid the work, but either way, thanks!

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    • Anna Geiger

      No, as it says in the product description, this is a digital file. 🙂 But it will save you a ton of time downloading each individual file! Plus they’ll all be in one, easy-to-find place. If I were going to print and send them, they’d be a lot more than $10 ;).

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  45. Adelita

    Hi Anna,
    Thank you so much for those great reading ideas and hands on activities. I very much like them. I really would like other ideas or games on how to help students with sight words.
    God bless you and your family.

    Regards,
    Adelita from Belize

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  49. Laura Agaba

    I am a special education teacher. I am trying to print the emergent readers at school but our internet can’t handle your webpage by the time I get to the download link it is a blank screen. I tried loading it at home and then e-mailing links at my school e-mail so I could directly open the books at school but you have made it impossible. Please, help me figure out a way I can have these books printed for my student. Thank you!

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  51. Po Tim King

    Anna,
    I am sure you got a lot from others, but I still want to say THANK YOU to your wonderful sight words mimi booklets. I am a first time homeschool mom who is currently homeschooling my two girls (age 5 & 3) in Hong Kong. Since English is my second language, even I got an American husband, I am still learning how American learn and study English.
    Anyways, I and my girls LOVE your sight-word book collection. My 5 years old love to read and learn. and her ability to read has increased a lot. I hope there is some kind of activities to enhance the learning as well. If there is any, please let me know.
    Thanks,
    Po Tim

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    • Anna Geiger

      You’re very welcome! I highly recommend This Reading Mama’s “Reading the Alphabet” curriculum. I designed these books to go alongside it. You can get all the parts for free or pay a small fee to get it all bundled and get some bonus material.

      I wrote a review of it here: https://www.themeasuredmom.com/preschool-reading-curriculum/

      Hello to Hong Kong! We lived there for a semester while my husband taught there. We lived in the Mei Foo apartments. It was challenging with three little kid (baby, 2, and 3 years old at the time), but it was an exciting adventure!

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  53. Lynn

    I love, love, love your books! I teach at a 90% at-risk school and my kids love the books as well, especially if I print them from home in color! 🙂 Needless to say, I go through a lot of ink…

    Anyway, we are in the middle of an informational reading unit – and I was wondering if you’d thought about maybe writing some informational emergent readers? Just a thought 🙂

    Thanks again!
    Lynn Bradford
    kinder teacher

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    • Anna Geiger

      Hi Lynn! I’m so glad you can use my readers! I actually have at least ten nonfiction readers in each of my theme packs (All About Me, Fall, Winter, etc.), but only one of each is available for free (see my Free Printables page). This is something I enjoy doing and would like to think more about adding to the free collection. If you send me an e-mail with some suggested themes and more about what you and other kindergarten teachers could use, that would be helpful! It’s anna@themeasuredmom.com.

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  54. Laura

    Hello there, I hope you are doing well. You have o idea how much I thank you for the freebies
    I am a mexican English Teacher, but the resources in mexico are very limited, we don´t have
    almost any teacher´s supplies in school, we pay our materials on our own and the reading books for preschoolers are not affordable, I love your freebies and It would be great if you can send a set of the booklets for Kinder in your freebie section. I know that this is your business and don´t want to hurt your financial situation but I hope you can help me and my students.

    Thank you in advance

    Laura

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  56. Ivana

    HellO!!

    Your Books and material are soo amazing!!
    Thanks a lot. I am so glad for all of these.
    It will help me a lot!.
    I am brazilian and was teaching in NEpal two years ago. Now I am in Brazil teaching at the Bible College. My studens are learning a lot from these. Hope I CAN GET MORE MATERIAL FROM YOU.

    Ivana

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  57. Truc Nguyen

    Hi Anna,
    I’m trying to find fun activities to play with my 5 year-old girl in this summer time but also help her be ready for kindergarten too. I don’t like to write comments but I’m so thankful I found your blog and I need to say thank you to you. Your work is amazing. I’ve been in US for 5 years and English is not my mother’s language so it’s hard to teach my little girl because I don’t know where to start. I started downloading free printable sheets and she really enjoyed it with me last night. If you have any suggestion for a 5 years old girl as a teacher, please let me know.

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  62. Julie Barich

    Anna, I am printing your Sight Word readers, they are great for our Emergent EL readers. They all print fine, except on the cover page, I get the words and the illustration, but then I get a bunch of crazy squiggly lines behind the picture and covering the title text. Any idea what I am doing wrong?

    Thanks for your help. I just shared your sight with my team members 🙂

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    • Anna Geiger

      I actually JUST finished the uppercase mazes a few days ago, so I don’t have lowercase mazes yet. I expect I’ll make them in the new year, but probably not before January at the earliest.

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  64. chana

    Hi Anna! I just wanted to let u know that ur materials are superb! As a first grade teacher and reading specialist, I find them to be clear, concise and a pleasure to use! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!

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  66. Lindsay

    Thanks so much for the sight word readers. I’ve been using them as I homeschool my daughters. I love the approach of teaching them in the context of reading, not just a flashcard. We’ve completed every set with much success. I was wondering if you are going to continue to make them? Thanks, Lindsay

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    • Anna Geiger

      Hi Lindsay! My goal is to make a complete second set, but I’m afraid that I don’t have a time frame on that. The challenge is that none of my kids are ready for them right now. They are too easy for my three oldest kids, and our fourth (a preschooler) is at the very beginning and not ready for the new sets I would create. So, yes, I do plan to make more, but they may not be ready for your daughters when they’d need them. Sorry about that!

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  68. Angie Macedo

    Anna! You are incredible at what you do!!!! These books are exactly what I have been looking for. I have a 4 yr old son who will be starting kindergarten in two weeks, and a 2 yr old daughter that watches her brother very closely. When I read these to my 4 yo, my 2 yo wants to join in. These books will be a tremendous help! Thank you so much for all the work you have put in and for sharing this with us!! Have a blessed day!!

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  72. Tommie Sue Schindler

    These look great, but my printer won’t print on both sides. Is there a way around that? I’m sure my granddaughters would love your sight word books. Thanks!

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    • Karen W

      The original poster may not see this, but I am leaving this reply for others with the same question. If for some reason you cannot print double-sided (or if you forget to change the settings and don’t have enough ink to re-print, which is how I figured this out), just print the file single-sided. Cut each page into four little pages, stack each book’s pages in order, and staple on the sides to make a sort of flip book. It’s ugly but functional.

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  74. Serene

    Hi Anna, your posts have been really a savior! My own child and my students are enjoying them very much. However, there seemed to be some issues downloading individually the sight word books from sight word ‘my’ onwards. I have been redirected to a blank page with message “AN ELITE CAFEMEDIA FAMILY & PARENTING PUBLISHER”. Do you wish to check this out?

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  75. Nicole

    I cannot thank you enough for all of your wonderful resources! I work in a Catholic school with limited funds. I provide academic intervention services for at risk students. These resources have helped me shape many of my small group lessons for struggling readers.

    THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

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  76. Sherri

    Hi Anna. Thank you for all of the time and effort that you put into all of these wonderful resources! I have just downloaded the emergent readers and love them. However, after I printed out sets 1-5 and then went to cut them I half, I noticed that some of the pages were misaligned. They were to far down/up on the page so when I cut them in half part of the picture or word would be cut off. This is especially true for the booklets that have a two line title. Is this something that can fixed so I can use all of the stories that you created? Not sure if anyone else has had this happen or if it is something on my end. Thank you again for all of your time and effort. It is truly appreciated.

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      • Sherri

        Thanks for your quick response. I re-downloaded Adobe through your link in case there are any new updates and printed a booklet out. My test run with a single sheet of regular paper worked perfect so I put in a small stack of cardstock and reprinted the same 2 pages. It came out misaligned again which is very confusing as to why. I then tried it again using only a single sheet of cardstock and this time it came out perfect. Not sure why it doesn’t print correctly when putting in more that 1 sheet though. Thanks for your help!

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  78. FNU Shruti

    Thank you for providing these free books. All the set are super useful. Lots of thanks for all the effort you have put in providing these sim mple and short books for our kids .thanks a ton “the measured mom”

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