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How Books and Print Work

Preschool Reading Worksheet

Circle the answer.

1.
Which one shows the front of a closed book?
2.
Which one do you put a card in to mail it?
3.
Which one do you drop mail in outside?
4.
The arrow shows where reading starts. Which letter do we read first?
- A
- H
- T
5.
The arrow shows where reading starts. Which letter do we read first?
- E
- B
- D
6.
Which book is open so you can read the pages?

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About this worksheet

Print is everywhere before a child can read a word of it, and knowing what it is for comes first. A stop sign means stop even to someone who cannot spell it, and an envelope means a letter is inside. This page starts there, asking which everyday thing carries writing, and then moves to the book itself: a closed book with its cover, an open book with pages to read, and the library where the books live. A few questions put a short word in boxes and ask which letter we read first, which is the first rule of the page: print starts at the left.

The last level turns it into a job. You want a bedtime story, so what do you open? You want to mail a card, so what do you need? Every answer is a picture or a single letter, so nothing has to be read. Keep a real book beside the sheet, touch the cover, turn one page at a time, and slide a finger under the words from left to right as you read.

What your child will learn

Spot the everyday things that carry writing
Tell an open book from a closed one
Know that a word is read starting from the left
Match a piece of print to the job it does

Head Start ELOF standard: P-LIT 2, RF.K.1.A

Worked example

The arrow points to the boxes H, A, T. Reading starts at the arrow and goes along, so the first letter we read is the H next to the arrow, not the T at the far end.