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Butterfly Summer: a free printable book

Print Butterfly Summer as a little book to cut and staple, or as one page to read together. Every page has its picture, and the words are the ones in the story. For a file with pictures, press Print below and choose Save as PDF; the PDF buttons give the words only. Free, with no sign-up.

Think before you readLook at the picture first. Who do you see? What do you think will happen in this book?

When your child gets stuck on a word

  1. Look for parts you know.
  2. Sound it out: say each sound, left to right, then say the word fast.
  3. Check it. Is it a real word? Does it make sense? Then check the picture.

If it is a word that cannot be sounded out, like the or said, just tell them the word and have them say it, then reread the sentence.

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Print on 2 sheets of paper turned sideways (choose landscape in the print window). Cut along the dotted lines, put the little pages in order by their numbers, and staple them on the left.

Butterfly SummerMy name: ____________A free Peabody book
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"Look, Mia!" said Mom. "A bug!"

2

It is a caterpillar. It eats the leaf.

3

Mia and Mom get milkweed leaves for it.

4

Each day Mia looks. It gets big.

5

Then it hangs from a twig.

6

It is a chrysalis now. It is still.

7

Mia waits and waits and waits.

8

One day it cracks! Out it comes!

9

Its wings are wet. Then they dry.

10

It is a butterfly! Its wings are orange.

11

It sits on Mia's hand. Mia is still.

12

It sips from a flower.

13

Then it flaps up, up, up!

14

Mia and Mom wash their hands.

15
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