Reading Coloring Pages

Every page in this set shows a child absorbed in a book, which makes it a slightly unusual thing to hand a child: the activity in the drawing is the one you are hoping to encourage. These 15 reading coloring pages cover storytime in a library, a reading nook, a book fort, a flashlight under the covers and a flying carpet. Every design downloads as a free printable PDF sized for US Letter paper.

Child Reading Under a Big Leafy Tree in Summer and Kids at Storytime in a Cozy Library are the two most-used in classrooms. Boy Reading Inside a Fort Built From Books and Reading Nook With Stuffed Animals and Stacked Books have the most small objects to fill. Child in Pajamas Reading With a Flashlight Under the Covers is the best lighting exercise here.

Stacked books are the recurring detail across this set, and they are a good excuse to teach one rule: alternate. Give neighboring spines clearly different colors and vary the width of the bands, and a stack reads instantly as many separate books. Color them all the same and it becomes a striped block.

The imaginative half of the set is where the reading turns into what is being read. Girl Surrounded by Floating Characters From Her Book, Child Dreaming of Storybook Characters Coming to Life and Magic Library With Books Flying Off the Shelves all put real and imagined things on the same page, and they work best if the child stays in natural colors and the imagined figures take the unnatural ones. Reading in a Treehouse Library and Child Reading on a Magical Flying Carpet are the two escape scenes, and the quietest pages here are Child and Grandparent Reading Together in a Chair and Child Reading Aloud to Their Pet Dog and Cat.

More in this direction: Fairy Tales, Teddy Bears and Back to School.

If you are building an early learning folder, the number coloring pages cover the same ground on the counting side, with big outlined numerals to trace and color.