Welcome to The Teacher's Bookbag!

This website was created in order to share my printable teacher resources with you.  Here you'll find affordable, blackline masters and COLOR versions to use in creating books for your emerging readers, as well as other printable activities.  The resources here were designed to be used in my classroom, so take a look at what we've been doing.  The books are designed with ample room for binding or stapling, and most text is in an expanded format for easier reading.  Just purchase, copy, and assemble, and you and your students are ready to begin! 

Most of the books have full size 8.5 x 11 pages. A couple have half pages, but none are smaller. The smaller sized pages are the ones with only 2 - 3 words per page. Each book description tells you what size pages it has. 

I've created the books this size so that the text is enlarged. Years ago I was using a book with my class that I'd created for Hey Diddle Diddle. That was before I'd learned about the enlarged text.  One of my students (1st grade) told me that I'd written the words too small. :) Unfortunately, I'd used a regular size font and none of the exaggerated spacing.  He was use to seeing the enlarged print in our emergent readers because we'd used several of my books that I sell here already.  My student's comment about this shows me that the enlarged print does matter to the students.  So although many teachers like to use the mini books (4 book pages per sheet) because they save on space, paper, and copies, I find the larger books are more kid friendly.  And that's what these materials are all about ... creating things to use to make my students successful in learning while having FUN in the process! :)

The  COLOR versions are awesome when you're putting together things in a snap for use in your pocketcharts, class books, Big Books, sample books, classroom library, browsing boxes, or even student books.  Just print onto cardstock, laminate, cut out, bind if necessary and you're done!  Use the book graphics to create your own matching Big Books by simply printing the text in a larger kid friendly font (landscape) with exaggerated spacing and glue both to either construction paper or posterboard, laminate and bind and you're ready to go!

In an effort to speed up the loading process of this page, I've created individual pages for each theme.  So please click on the links below for the items that you're interested in and the loading process should be faster.