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April 12 is DEAR Day, otherwise known as Drop Everything and Read, a concept made popular by Beverly Cleary’s Ramona books. (It’s April 12 because it was her birthday.)

Reading is worth celebrating all the time, and I thought it would be fun to help encourage kids to read more and to celebrate DEAR Day by sharing some printable bookmarks you can use with your kiddos in the library space in your classroom or at home.

If you want to learn more about Beverly Cleary and her books you can do so on her website, or learn more about DEAR Day from Reading Rockets.

Parties Made Personal has a massive collection of printable bookmarks for kids and adults alike to print and color. There are 13 pages of bookmarks in all, with themes ranging from weather to ice cream, space to bugs. I love the cactus ones!

Artsy Fartsy Mama has some super cute unicorn bookmarks for kids to print and color. You’ll want to break out the glitter crayons or gel pens for these to add a little sparkle.

Skip to My Lou has a collection of reading themed bookmarks to print and color. I Like to Read Past My Bedtime is my favorite because that’s still me.

Have a fan of Baby Yoda (“his name is Grogu,” as Din Djarin would remind us) in the house? Grab these bookmark printables from Rock Your Homeschool.

Printablee has some reading themed bookmarks as well as some with geometric doodles and flowers you can color, great for kids and adults.

Make DEAR Day or any day more fun by building a reading fort (or just pile pillows on the floor), grabbing your favorite snacks and reading books (silently, of course!) together.

Looking for even more printable bookmarks for kids? Check out this collection I gathered a couple of years ago.

[Photo: Artsy Fartsy Mama.]

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Fall Literacy Activities

Bring on the fall leaves, pumpkins and apples as we help little ones learn to recognize letters and get ready for reading with these fall literacy activities.

Practice letter recognition by feeding the scarecrow straw with the letters of the alphabet with this printable activity from ABCs of Literacy. It includes both uppercase and lowercase letters so you can practice with either or match them as you “feed” the scarecrow.

Match the letters on fall leaves with the letters on the worksheet to play leafy letter match from The Kindergarten Connection. Kids can color in the leaves they find or cover them with dot markers.

Or do the same thing with this free pumpkin color the alphabet activity using lowercase letters. It’s from The Kinder Life on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Work on sight word recognition with this pumpkin sight words printable activity from The Connet Connection on Teachers Pay Teachers. This free download lets kids practice their sight words while they hunt for a black cat.

Help kids learn to spell their names with this apple printable activity from Books and Giggles. Kids can find each of the letters in their name on apples, put them together to spell their name, then count the number of letters in their name.

Twisty Noodle has a fall words printable coloring page where kids can trace the letters for fall words: acorn, leaf, apple and pumpkin.

Little printable books are so fun for early readers to read and color. I See Fall is a free printable book from Fun a Day that includes six fall items: acorns, sunflowers, pumpkins, leaves, scarecrows and apples. You have the option of printing it will all the words on each page (I see pumpkins, for example) or with the word see missing so kids can practice writing it in on their own.

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