Free Mini Books to Print

FREE MINI BOOKS TO DOWNLOAD AND PRINT

Children love to have their own “library” of books to read and re-read, and this is an excellent way to encourage reading skills. I have found some sites which have free mini-books that you can print and keep. These vary from very simple beginner books/readers, to books suitable for children in Grade 2 up.

www.homeboundbooks.com This site offers 30 little story books with simple stories and delightful pictures; subscription is free. Suitable to share with grade K-1 children for more confident grade 1-2+ readers.

http://www.dltk-teach.com/minibooks/

has free printable mini books, including a set of alphabet books. If you look in their kindergarten section, you can download tiny “itsy bitsy” alphabet books, and in their animal sections (or if you search for itsy bitsy books on their site), you can find appealing tiny books on bats, sharks, penguins, frogs, spiders and bears. Instructions to assemble the itsy bitsy books are at http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/shapes/ib-books-photos.htm

There are also printable story pages at www.dltk-teach.com/fables/.

This site has lots of other very good educational resources, too.

http://minibooks.scholastic.com Scholastic has a wide range of mini-book readers, which are levelled from easiest to harder books; they are illustrated and are excellent quality; some of these are free to download and print. You can select the most appropriate Grade level to find the list of titles, and the free books have a little red gift icon next to them.

www.ReadingA-Z.com also has an excellent range of levelled readers to print (some in colour). You can subscribe if you wish, but several titles (and other reading resources) are available as free samples. There are also free trial weeks available at times, where you may download quite a lot of books etc.

www.learningpage.com (associated with www.ReadingA-Z.com/ Learning A-Z) has a series of over 20 illustrated “Tommy Tales” in book form for free download, in English or Spanish. These are suitable for children of around 8-10 years and would be good to encourage boys to read, as they follow the adventures of “the lovable rascal Tommy Tomkins and his friends”. There are also some more simple little mini books about animals, insects etc and some harder “flower children” mini books. You need to sign up to access the books, but it’s free and no hassles.

www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies is an excellent site with lots of reading activities for young children, and http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/theme/colour/ has stories with colour- in pages to print.

www.starfall.com has lots of phonics-based online reading activities, and their downloads centre has some free versions of some reading material including books such as Zac the Rat and Gus the Duck.

Tiny Books to Print

Some tiny books for you to make:

Here are some tiny books I have designed. Click on the picture to open the PDF to download. You can print the books in colour, or in black and white if you prefer.

These little books are quite fiddly to make, so most children will need adult help, but children love the small format.

Assembly instructions are at the bottom of this page.