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PSPKK123February 12, 2015 •  26 Comments

Transportation Color Me Readers

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There’s nothing like the joy a child has when he has read his very first book! We can give that joy to children as young as three years old by creating very simple books they can read themselves.

But wait a second.

If they’re just using the pictures and memorizing the pattern of the book, how is that reading?

Put “reading” in quotes if you will, but don’t discount the confidence building that occurs when children read (or recite) predictable books all on their own.

Not only do they have the great excitement of knowing they read a book all by themselves, they also learn valuable concepts of print.

  • They practice holding a book and turning the pages in the right direction.
  • They learn that each word on the page represents a spoken word.
  • They see that text is read from left to right.

The world needs more of these little books!  That’s why I’m excited to introduce a new series of printable first books for preschoolers.  These would also work great for beginning readers in kindergarten and first grade.

Print these free transportation emergent readers for your early reader! These simple books come in three levels of difficulty.

Introducing… my Color Me Readers collection of emergent readers.

Each set of three books will be based on an early childhood theme.  This set of books was designed to go along with my giant transportation book list.  After reading some of those books to your child or class, print a Color Me Reader for each child.

While the Color Me Readers do feature sight words, we won’t be going in a particular order or progressing level of difficulty like my sight word readers do.

These were created simply to give joy and confidence to future readers.  However, you might find that your child learns some of the sight words by reading these books over and over.  And beginning readers can certainly build their sight word vocabulary by reading these little books!

The bonus is that each set of three books comes in three different levels. Print the level that’s right for your child, or do all three.

Print these free transportation emergent readers for your early reader! These simple books come in three levels of difficulty.

The level one book is the simplest.  Each page has a new vehicle.

A car.    A bike.    A train.   A helicopter.  A tractor.   A fire truck.   A police car.

Since my Three knows the letter A, he could “read” this book all by himself. So fun!

Print these free transportation emergent readers for your early reader! These simple books come in three levels of difficulty.

The level two book goes like this:

Go, school bus!  Go, garbage truck!  Go, taxi!  Go, airplane!  Go, motorcycle!  Go, tow truck!  Go, car!

Print these free transportation emergent readers for your early reader! These simple books come in three levels of difficulty.

Level three has a longer sentence on each page.  But it’s still super simple.

I see the car.   I see the bus.  I see the hot air balloon.  I see the mail truck.  I see the raft.  I see the truck.

Print these free transportation emergent readers for your early reader! These simple books come in three levels of difficulty.

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.

I hope you get a lot of use out of these!

More free transportation activities!

    • Transportation sight word readers #1
    • Transportation sight word readers #2
    • Transportation clip cards
    • Truck pattern card pack
    • Transportation matching game
    • Big list of books about transportation

So many emergent readers!

 Transportation Arctic animals Community helpers Fall Space Spring Farm animals 5 senses

&

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26 Comments

  1. Trish

    March 22, 2018 at 7:11 am

    Thank you so much for these great resources. Just what I was looking for to go along with our transportation unit theme.

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      April 2, 2018 at 8:32 pm

      I’m so glad you can use them, Trish!

      Reply to this comment
  2. Ellen

    February 5, 2018 at 1:30 am

    Your printables are godsend to us. My son has social communication disorder and it’s so hard to teach him how to read but we’re getting by thanks to you.

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      February 5, 2018 at 6:14 am

      I’m so glad to hear that my resources are helping, Ellen!

      Reply to this comment
  3. Ada Sun

    March 8, 2017 at 10:30 pm

    I am sincerely appreciate your sharing things and the way you accompany your child. Now I want to change the PDF file into word file, and the software asks me for the passwords, can you help me to deal with that?

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      March 9, 2017 at 5:29 am

      Hi Ada – the file is secured to protect my work and the copyright of the clip art. So I’m not able to share the password.

      Reply to this comment
  4. Nma

    September 27, 2016 at 7:20 am

    Thank you for your comprehensive resource materials. I really appreciate it.

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      September 29, 2016 at 9:25 am

      You’re very welcome! 🙂

      Reply to this comment
  5. razan

    February 27, 2016 at 3:13 pm

    Good

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  6. Julia

    February 19, 2015 at 2:22 pm

    My kids (ages 3 & 5) loved coloring and reading these! Thanks so much!! Was wondering if you are planning to add more Color Me emergent readers to your fabulous website?

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      February 24, 2015 at 12:22 pm

      Thanks, Julia – so glad your kids enjoyed these! I do plan to create more to correlate with my early learning book lists – so probably once every 3 weeks or so. I hope to get a set out next week. 🙂

      Reply to this comment
  7. Tatiana

    February 16, 2015 at 5:30 am

    Thanks for the printables. I’m looking forward to sharing the level 3 set with my boy!

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    • Anna Geiger

      February 19, 2015 at 12:18 pm

      I hope he enjoys it, Tatiana!

      Reply to this comment
  8. Meghan

    February 12, 2015 at 10:44 am

    I just printed off the easy “A” version for my 3 year old son and he loved it! He colored every page brown 🙂 We read it together and he has since read it to me about 4x he is so proud! I can’t wait for his daddy to come home so he can see him read it too. I printed off the hardest version for my 4 year old daughter, but she said wants a princess one. I told her since you are making these for your boy, that one may not happen… 😉

    Thanks so much!

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    • Anna Geiger

      February 12, 2015 at 4:39 pm

      That’s wonderful, Meghan! Yay! I’m afraid I don’t have any princess books coming, but that’s because I am creating these books to go with my early childhood themed book lists. Since the first list was transportation, the color me books were too. Next up: space. Hopefully I’ll create something that will catch your daughter’s interest. 🙂

      Reply to this comment
    • Kate

      February 12, 2015 at 7:56 pm

      Meghan,
      Boys have more rods in their eyes (seeing distance and speed), and girls have more cones (seeing color and shape). It’s completely normal for little boys to draw and color using only one color, while girls use many colors. After learning that fact at a kindergarten conference, it was fascinating to see it play out in the classroom. Just a little science to explain what you see in your son:)

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      • Jennifer

        February 17, 2015 at 10:24 pm

        This is fascinating about rods and cones – does that change as we grow up?

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        • Kate

          February 19, 2015 at 8:34 pm

          Jennifer,

          Since I only remember what related to kindergarten at the conference (in 2005 or 2006), I did a quick internet search and came up with many articles about this topic.

          According to this excellent article, the difference in vision is widest at age 11, and very small by age 30. I have not read the works cited at the end of the article:

          http://www.karenwalstraconsulting.com/home/index.php?ipkArticleID=24

          Another website referenced this scholarly journal article. It describes a study involving young adults, and the differences between men’s and women’s vision were significant:

          http://www.bsd-journal.com/content/3/1/20

          So to answer your question, I think our eyes do change as we grow up, but I’m not sure how much and in what ways. That scholarly journal article above is too technical for me to understand completely:(

          I do love this stuff, though!

          Reply to this comment
      • Meghan

        March 3, 2015 at 10:20 am

        I just now saw this! That is fascinating. He colors in monochrome 99% of the time! Thank you for sharing!

        Reply to this comment

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