We love pulling together free printables for young learners to enjoy. We have many free early literacy printables and hope you will check them out. Young children love our colourful interlined paper and, those who are just starting to read and write will have fun with our Halloween picture dictionary.

  Interlined Paper - Thanksgiving Cornucopia
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  Thanksgiving Day Crossword Puzzle
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  Thanksgiving Word Search
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For teachers, we have Five Little Ghosts and Five Little Pumpkins – these rhymes are perfect for circle time. You can easily make a felt board story with spooky ghosts or bright orange pumpkins

Halloween Circle Time -

  Halloween Circle Time - Five Little Ghosts
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  Halloween Circle Time - Five Little Pumpkins
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For children, our free Halloween printables include words together with pictures (print and use like a picture dictionary) as well as pumpkin and witch interlined paper.

Reading and Writing about Halloween –

  Halloween Picture Dictionary
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Halloween Interlined Paper -

  Interlined Paper - Witch Hat
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  Interlined Paper - Pumpkin
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For older children, we have a Halloween Crossword Puzzle and a Halloween Wordsearch

Halloween Crossword Puzzle

  Halloween Crossword Puzzle
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Halloween Word Search

  Halloween Word Search
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Remembrance Day

  Interlined Paper - Remembrance Day Poppy
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Our early literacy printables, including our free Halloween printables are in PDF format, if you don’t already use Adobe Reader, you will need to use it to access the downloads.

Please note: some of our early literacy printables are available to Storytime Standouts members only. To become a member of the website (without cost or obligation), please click on the “Members” tab and register as a user.

Halloween Picture Books at Amazon.com

Halloween Picture Books at Amazon.ca

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including these Fall, Halloween and Thanksgiving early learning materials,
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Storytime Standouts highlights three special titles for youngsters headed off to school

For many adults, books are a great source of information as well as entertainment. Whether searching for a delicious recipe, researching an upcoming family vacation or deciding if a visit to the doctor is necessary, books can be inspiring, entertaining, informative and reassuring.

Just as adults seek information from books, children gain understanding and confidence as they explore new and unfamiliar situations through books. Whether beginning preschool or heading off to school, there are many delightful picture books available to help you and your child make the transition with relative ease.

Ready, Set, Preschool! – written by Anna Jane Hays, illustrated by True Kelley

Ready, Set, Preschool! features stories, poetry and detailed illustrations that will enable youngsters to explore a typical preschool classroom, experience a field trip, observe playground activities and more. As well, the illustrations and text offer opportunities to practice counting, identifying colours, shapes, recognize rhyming words, the alphabet and letter sounds.

Extensive notes for parents provide helpful suggestions of ways to extend learning and prepare young children for their first school experience.

Ready, Set, Preschool!: Stories, Poems and Picture Games with an Educational Guide for Parents at Amazon.com

Ready, Set, Preschool!: Stories, Poems and Picture Games with an Educational Guide for Parents at Amazon.ca

Off to First Grade – written by Lousie Borden, illustrated by Joan Rankin

I can still recall vividly a recommendation that was made when I attended my eldest son’s kindergarten orientation: make sure your child is not expecting to ride the school bus to school (unless he actually is going to climb aboard)! It was great advice. In those days he was captivated by large vehicles. Discovering at the last minute that he would not be riding the bus to school could have been terribly disappointing. The transition from kindergarten to grade one is explored thoroughly and with thoughtfulness in Off to First Grade. The author tells the story from a variety of perspectives. We discover some children will ride the bus and others will walk. Some are eager to begin grade one and a few think they would rather stay in kindergarten. Mrs. Miller is hoping to remember everyone’s name, the school bus driver is excited and the principal wonders which book to read aloud to the new grade one students.

Off to First Grade at Amazon.com

Off to First Grade at Amazon.ca

How Do Dinosaurs Go to School? – written by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Mark Teague

For children heading off to school, the bestHow Do Dinosaurs title by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague is How Do Dinosaurs Go to School? Here the reader visits a conventional elementary school. The school, its staff and students appear quite unremarkable except for eight or ten extraordinary pupils. Enormous creatures from the Jurassic period demonstrate proper behavior enroute to school, on the stairs, in the classroom, during show-and-tell and at the playground. Lots of funosaurus for dino fans.

How Do Dinosaurs Go To School? at Amazon.com

How Do Dinosaurs Go to School? at Amazon.ca

Highlighting our Fall Printables…

We have all sorts of goodies lined up for September but thought we would give you a taste today. Our Fall printables include interlined paper (Back to School and Fall themes), a special alphabet, “school” vocabulary and some “Squirrel” goodies.

We are currently pulling together our favourite picture books for autumn – colourful leaves, and crisp, cool days are not far away.

Our early literacy printables, including our Fall printables are in PDF format, if you don’t already used Adobe Reader, you will need to use it to access the downloads.

Please note: some of our early literacy printables are available to Storytime Standouts members only. To become a member of the website (without cost or obligation), please click on the “Members” tab and register as a user.

You will find our selection of free printable alphabets here and all of our early literacy printables here.

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including these Fall-theme early learning materials,
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Enjoy these Fall printables and be sure to let your friends and colleagues know about Storytime Standouts.

  A Fall Leaves Alphabet
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  School Picture Dictionary
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  Brown Squirrel
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  Five Little Squirrels
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  I'm A Little Acorn Brown
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  Interlined Paper - Back to School
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  Interlined Paper - Fall Theme incl. Tire Swing
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  Interlined Paper - Remembrance Day Poppy
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Two Shoes, Blue Shoes, New Shoes! -Written by Sally Fitz-Gibbon, Illustrated by Farida Zaman

Wearing new blue shoes to school, our happy heroine bounces through city streets with great enthusiasm. Delightful illustrations exude energy and compliment the simple, rhyming text beautifully.

Best for children aged three to six.

Two Shoes, Blue Shoes, New Shoes at Amazon.com

Two Shoes, Blue Shoes, New Shoes! at Amazon.ca