Finding books for Kindergarteners to read independently can be tricky – but these early readers are great to have on hand! These Back to School Emergent Readers are perfect for the beginning of the year. This pack contains 4 emergent reader books, each with a Back to School theme. They are easy to assemble and even include an EDITABLE name book!
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Back to School Emergent Readers
These emergent readers are perfect for supporting word tracking, early sight words, learning names, color words, number words, and more!
Just like all of our printable emergent readers, these books are super simple to prep. Just print double-sided, cut in half, staple, and that’s it! You have two books ready to go which is great for saving paper. If you’re using them at home, it means there are extra copies for you to follow along with!

What’s Included?
This Back to School pack includes 4 easy-prep readers for your kids. They are great for classroom books, guided reading groups, at-home practice, and more!
Titles included are:
- At School We Can…
- Counting Crayons
- Time for School!
- My Rainbow Name (Editable!)
Let’s take a closer look!
At School We Can…
This first reader will help your students work on tracking print and reading simple sight words while learning about things we do at school.
After they read the book, your kids will love coloring the fun pictures!

Counting Crayons
Support your earliest readers and help them build confidence with this engaging crayon emergent reader.
Repetitive text patterns will help provide tons of practice with number and color words!

Time for School!
In Kindergarten we work on sight words all year long so I get really excited when I find fun, easy-prep sight word activities!
This cute reader will help your students work on sight words such as at, I, and have.

My Rainbow Name
What’s better than a fun, low-prep literacy activity? An editable one!
This printable reader is EDITABLE which means you can make a custom book for each of your students!

Kids need to engage in books that they know they can read successfully as they are developing their reading skills, and these emergent readers help give them those stepping stones.
Best of all, they have an engaging Back to School theme, and kids can color them and take them home for even more practice!
Grab Your Set
Ready to rock reading with your kiddos this year? Grab your copy of the printable Back to School Emergent Readers Collection by clicking the large, yellow button at the end of the post!
If you love these printable books, you will definitely want to grab our incredible Emergent Readers MEGA BUNDLE (which includes the Back to School Emergent Readers)!
Of course, you could purchase each set separately, but if you grab this amazing bundle you can save BIG!
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Hi Alex, I super like this bundle!! Wanna ask you whether you’re going to make number books from 11 to 30? My special ed students struggle on teen numbers a lot, so I’m looking for various number books to help them.
Hi Lu!
So happy to hear that you enjoyed the Back to School Emergent Readers. We don’t have a reader in that set that goes to 20, but we do have these Emergent Reader Number Books –>>https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Centers-and-Activities-for-Pre-K-and-Kindergarten-3416335
I hope those will help you!
Enjoy!
I teach TK and love everything you do.
I do not need the mega bundle of emergent readers (tk doesnt go that far) but would love the sentence strips for the Back to school emergent readers. Do you have the readers and sentence strips for just the first 5 sets or just for Back to school. Thank you
Hi Gale! This is in the works! 🙂 I have had a lot of requests to offer the pocket chart sentences separately, so I am working on developing a bundle of them. Thanks for asking about it – I hope to be able to offer it really soon!