Storytime Standouts offers hundreds of free early learning resources, in PDF format, for teachers, parents and caregivers to use with children.

Our free early learning and beginning to read downloads are great learning resources for young children, especially preschoolers, those in kindergarten and children who are home-schooled. Parents, caregivers and teachers will want to use these materials at home or at school with beginning readers and writers.

Our free early literacy resources include sight words for children learning to read, word families for beginning readers, word family flip books, alphabets, interlined paper for beginning writers, nursery rhymes, songs, fingerplays for preschool and kindergarten, rhyming words, word searches, crossword puzzles, and more. These free teaching resources are great for children in preschool, kindergarten and the early primary grades and are especially helpful for homeschooling families.

All of these materials have been used with children in our Getting Ready to Read and Beginning to Read programs. In most cases, we print the materials onto cardstock, laminate them with our Scotch® Laminating Dispenser and are “good to go.” We have used the laminator in a home office for many years and have never had a problem with it. We like the convenience of a cool (no heat) laminator as it is always ready.

Our free early literacy downloads are in PDF format, if you don’t already use Adobe Reader, you will need to use it to access the learning resources.

Some of the teaching resources 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.

For a very limited time, we have made most of our
~ Gardening with Children printables ~
available to all visitors to the site - with no membership required.
We sincerely hope you will “share this site” with your friends and colleagues.
Wishing you Happy Gardening!

Free Alphabets

Storytime Standouts offers a variety of free alphabets in PDF format for children in preschool, kindergarten and the early primary grades. We have grouped the alphabets together and you will find all of the free alphabets here. We suggest using the alphabets to make matching games, help a child to learn alphabetical order and/or letter sounds or decorate a bulletin board.

Interlined (Printing) Paper

Storytime Standouts offers free interlined paper for children, visit our Interlined Paper page to see the entire collection. We hope you will use the interlined paper to inspire young writers.

We have tried to match seasonal themes and the sort of topics a kindergarten or grade one child might write about. We regularly add interlined paper to the website. We try to anticipate a child’s interests and classroom themes.

If you would like to suggest another theme, please contact us using the email link.

Preschool and Kindergarten Songs, Rhymes, Chants and Fingerplays

Use these songs, rhymes, chants and fingerplays with children in preschool, kindergarten and early primary grades. We have grouped them together on our Songs, Rhymes, Chants and Fingerplays page. We regularly add new songs, rhymes and chants to the website. We try to anticipate your interests and classroom themes.

If you would like to suggest a song, rhyme or fingerplay, please contact us using the email link.

Word Family Printables

These word family printables are great for children who are learning to read. We have grouped them together on our Word Family page.

For a beginning reader, discovering that cot, dot, hot, pot and rot are related is exciting. Children who are just learning to sound out words will be thrilled to learn that they can substitute the beginning sound and read three, four or more related words. We view word families as a great springboard for beginning readers.

Picture Dictionaries – Words for Beginning Readers and Writers

Helpful for beginning readers and writers, these picture dictionaries are all together on our Words for Beginning Readers and Writers page. We know young children get a great sense of satisfaction from using pictures to help them decode words. With these picture dictionaries, they can read a series of related words or they use the words to write a story.

If you prefer, by following the links below, you can access all of our free early learning resources including prereading, reading and writing materials for children plus professional resources for caregivers and teachers.

Our free early literacy learning resources have been organized into the following categories -

• Interlined paper for children who are learning to print or write
• Carolyn Hart’s sample booklists for Ready for Reading and other workshops
• Alphabets – bright and colourful upper case and lower case letters, alphabet dominos, alphabet matching and The Alphabet Song for children who are learning letter names and letter sounds
• Comprehension – including sequencing activities and other ways to support children with reading comprehension
• Fingerplays, Songs, Poems and More - preschool and kindergarten songs, fingerplays, chants and rhymes
• Nursery Rhymes

– illustrated nursery rhymes to share with young children

• Phonemic Awareness – rhyming words and phonics activities including matching the beginning consonant sound and matching the ending consonant sound
• Sight Words – high frequency (Dolch) words for beginning readers as well as words together with pictures, arranged by theme
• Seasonal Early Literacy Resources
• Word Families – word family activities for beginning readers including words together with pictures
• Workshop Materials related to Carolyn Hart’s workshops; Ready for Reading, Celebrating Diversity and more

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General incl. Interlined Paper

  Canadian Picture Book Crossword

  Half Interlined Paper

  Interlined Paper

  Interlined Paper - Apple

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  Interlined Paper - Back to School

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  Interlined Paper - Camping

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  Interlined Paper - Canada Day

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  Interlined Paper - Child with Umbrella

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  Interlined Paper - Children Love the Earth

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  Interlined Paper - Chinese New Year #1

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  Interlined Paper - Chinese New Year #2 (with Dragon)

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  Interlined Paper - Christmas Tree

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  Interlined Paper - Cinco de Mayo

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  Interlined Paper - Easter

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  Interlined Paper - Easter Basket

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  Interlined Paper - Elves and Shoemaker

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  Interlined Paper - Fall Theme incl. Tire Swing

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  Interlined Paper - Farm

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  Interlined Paper - Frog

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  Interlined Paper - Gingerbread

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  Interlined Paper - Glass Slipper

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  Interlined Paper - Groundhog Day

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  Interlined Paper - Hansel and Gretel

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  Interlined Paper - Happy Valentine's Day

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  Interlined Paper - Jack and the Beanstalk

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