Do you teach a young reader with the BOB Books? Then you’ve just struck gold! This post is FILLED with tons of FREE BOB Books printables for sets 1-5 and beyond…
What are BOB Books?
BOB Books were created by Bobby Lynn Maslen and John Maslen. While working in a preschool, Bobby began making the books for her preschoolers to learn how to read. John Maslen, an amazing water-color painter, drew the pictures. They were first published in 1976 and have now become VERY popular among beginning readers. There are even apps for the BOB Books!
BOB Books are used by many to teach reading, even to the young child. Starting with the earliest set, phonics features and sight words are introduced slowly to make it easy for your child to pick up the book and read.
FREE BOB Book Printables
I’ve had the honor of working with a team of bloggers to create FREE printable activities. Click on each image or link to find the printables and resources. Within each blog post, I also share the links of the other bloggers’ free printables.
Click on the images or the links below to get to the free BOB Books Printables for each set!
- BOB Books: Set 1
- BOB Books: Set 2
- BOB Books: Set 3
- BOB Books: Set 4
- BOB Books: Set 5
More BOB Books Resources!
- Lesson Plans & Outlines
- BOB Books Printables: Rhyming Words
- Download FREE Lesson Plans & Outlines for Sets 1- 5 of the BOB Books!
- I also have FREE printables for BOB Books Rhyming Words! Click HERE or on the image above to read more about and download the printables.
*I am a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for me to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated site.
Buy BOB Books
If you’d like to purchase BOB Books {sets 1-5 or other ones} for your home or classroom library, please consider doing so through my Amazon affiliate links below. There is no extra cost to you. Thanks!
- BOB Books: Set 1
- BOB Books: Set 2
- BOB Books: Set 3
- BOB Books: Set 4
- BOB Books: Set 5
- BOB Books: Rhyming Words
I am not affiliated with BOB Books, but I do have their permission to use the BOB Book logos and various images throughout my printables.
Enjoy!
~Becky
Thank you, thank you, thank you ladies for all your hard work and generosity to all of us! I love seeing all that you ladies come up with to help us homeschool our children. I am a grandmother of five and am now homeschooling the first two starting in August and I cannot wait to use all of these wonderful resources you have so generously written and shared for FREE!!! Thank you, thank you again!
You’re very welcome. What an encouragement to know it will be a blessing for you!
Thank you Thank you Thank you!! THese are wonderful!!!!
You’re welcome, welcome, welcome! 🙂
I have downloaded every single one from every single blog!! Love this series. Thank you so much for creating these.
I had a question about purchasing the Bob books. I am not just not sure where to start. My daughter knows all her letters (all uppercase, most lowercase) and about 75% of the sounds they make. We are going through your curriculum for reviewing letter sounds and learning sight words. Can you maybe tell me what set of bob books I should buy? I would love to use your affiliate link to thank you for all you have given to your readers. This is certainly one of the best literacy websites ever in my opinion!
Thank you for your kind words. My son {the one that use Reading the Alphabet last year} is going through Set 1 this year. We’re going pretty quickly and it’s been good review for him. How far are you through Reading the Alphabet now? My Set 1 printables overlap Reading the Alphabet just a bit, so when you feel she is ready to add more, I’d say go for Set 1. 🙂
I just now saw this reply! I must have missed in my email somehow. We are only on week 4 of your curriculum (we are taking about a week and half to go through each one) so I think i will go for set 1. Thanks for your advice!
Knowing first hand all the time, work, and effort it takes to run a classroom, I appreciate all the more the extra time you ladies have taken to make these resources available to us. Thank you so very much!!! This answered a few prayers as to where to start with reading for my son and our homeschooling program. Thank you for sharing. All your hard work was worth it and greatly appreciated.
YOU ARE AMAZING. Thank you so much for all your hard work. I am a student teacher at UCF and your efforts are beyond what I’ve seen in my field. I am homeschooling my daughter and am inspired by your work. My kids learned how to read with Bob Books (and Starfall). I am so pleased to see some hands-on activities to compliment them.
Thank you for your sweet comment. One of my main goals was hands-on when creating these. Glad to be used as an inspiration. 🙂
They now have BOB sight words.
Yes, I saw that! 🙂
Thank you! All your printables are fantastic!
Thanks! 🙂
WOW! Thank you sooooooo much!!!!
You are soooooo welcome! 🙂 These were a joy to create.
Do you have a set of pintables for the Bob Books Sight Words for Kindergarten?
My just turned 5 year old just started kindergarten. They are doing the letter of the week, but she also did that in Pre-K. I think it is a good review for her, but I she is showing more interest in learning to read on her own. I thought I would supplement her school work with your “Reading the Alphabet” curriculum, but focus more on the sight words and word families and skip your “letter only” activities (just so that she does not have 2 “letters of the week”).
I also planned to print the corresponding books from The Measured Mom, since it looks like her books follow your “Reading the Alphabet” curriculum.
I’m debating if I should also try to integrate the Bob sight word books … or the Set 1 Bob Books as well. I’m not sure the order that the Bob books follow, and if that might get tricky for me to organize.
Thanks!
I can no longer access the content from In Lieu of Preschool and Rockabye Butterfly.
YES YES YES, many thanks for releasing this again. I just became a teacher for literacy in SPED and this is amazing for me!
Awesome, glad you can use them!
Thank u so much😊
You’re very welcome! 🙂
Thank you so much for these super fun activities! My son has really enjoyed these as an add on! It is easy enough for him and he’s 4.