English Teaching Resources
English teachers, your printable worksheets, games, activities and more for building students' literacy skills are here, and they're all Australian Curriculum! Created by primary teachers for primary teachers like you, this teaching resource collection is full of reading and writing printables and digital activities to provide students with a strong foundation in English.
The expert teachers on the Teach Starter team have created each English worksheet, phonics game and hands-on activity to save primary teachers time on their lesson plans so they can spend more time making those 'aha' moments happen in the classroom.
Each PowerPoint presentation, worksheet and more has undergone our careful review process to ensure it's ready for your lesson plan and your students. This collection even includes customisable resources and activities that have already been differentiated for you!
Australian English Curriculum Aligned Activities for Every Year Level
What does the English Curriculum cover for each year level? We're so glad you asked!
Whether you're teaching English in year 1 or year 6 (or any year level in between), Teach Starter has the curriculum covered. Take a look at what's in store for your lesson plans and your classroom.
Foundation (Prep)
In Foundation resources from Teach Starter, students are introduced to foundational language and literacy skills. This year's curriculum is crucial as it provides a solid foundation for students' literacy development in the following years.
Teach Starter's resources will help you teach your foundation or prep students to recognise and produce sounds, letters and words and develop basic reading and writing skills.
Worksheets and games in this curriculum-aligned collection cover the purposes of different texts and engage in shared reading and storytelling activities to help your prep students get hooked on reading!
Year 1
Year 1 English builds upon the foundational skills developed in Foundation. Students continue to refine their reading and writing abilities, focusing on phonics, decoding, and fluency. They begin to read simple texts independently and develop their vocabulary and comprehension skills.
In writing, year 1 students learn to construct simple sentences, use capital letters and full stops, and express ideas through words and illustrations. This year's curriculum is important as it establishes fundamental reading and writing skills, enabling students to become more confident readers and writers.
Year 2
In Year 2, students expand their reading and writing skills, and the worksheets in this collection will allow you to explore a range of texts with your students, including fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
Work with your class to develop comprehension strategies to understand and interpret texts more deeply and learn about different text structures and begin to write more complex sentences and paragraphs.
Additionally, you'll find literacy resources designed to teach your year 2 class about grammar, punctuation and spelling rules, strengthening students' literacy skills and building their ability to express ideas more effectively.
Year 3
Year 3 English curriculum resources focus on developing students' reading, writing, speaking and listening skills across various text types and genres.
Explore resources to help students learn to analyse and evaluate texts, make predictions and infer meaning in their reading.
Develop your students' understanding of narrative and descriptive writing, as well as persuasive and informative writing.
Our spelling and grammar resources will help students learn about plurals, verb tenses and punctuation marks and expand their vocabulary.
Our curriculum-aligned options for year 3 emphasise critical thinking and communication skills, encouraging students to become more independent and thoughtful readers and writers.
Year 4
Teach Starter's year 4 reading and writing resources help students further refine their reading and writing abilities.
They explore a broader range of texts — including literature, digital media and visual texts — and work on analysing and evaluating texts, identifying the author's purpose and drawing conclusions.
Explore worksheets and more to help your students develop their narrative, persuasive, informative and descriptive writing skills, focusing on organisation, cohesion and language features. You'll also find support for your lesson plans to deepen their understanding of grammar, vocabulary and spelling patterns.
Year 4 encourages students to become more proficient in analysing and creating texts, fostering their creativity and critical thinking skills, and this collection has you covered!
Year 5
The Australian English curriculum in year 5 emphasises higher-level comprehension and composition skills, and Teach Starter's year 5 reading resources allow students to engage with more complex texts, including novels, plays and multimodal texts.
Students can analyse themes, viewpoints and literary techniques in their reading.
Our year 5 writing resources allow students to plan, draft, revise and edit their work, incorporating various text structures and literary devices. The resources also help students expand their vocabulary, grammar and spelling knowledge.
Year 6
In the final year of primary school, Year 6 students consolidate their language skills in preparation for secondary school.
Teach Starter's year 6 reading and writing resources will help your students engage with various texts — including those that present different perspectives and challenge ideas.
Build advanced comprehension strategies — such as inference, synthesis and evaluation — and refine their writing skills by exploring different genres, styles and voices. Grammar, vocabulary and spelling are all covered with various options available.
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Narrative Writing Prompts Worksheets
Download these engaging narrative writing prompts worksheets that spark creativity and make story planning easy for your students.
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Developing Persuasive Writing Skills Teaching Slides
Teach your students persuasive writing skills with these interactive teaching slides specifically created for Year 3 and 4 students.
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Narrative Writing Planning Template Pack
Use this narrative writing planning template pack to help your students plan a fantastic piece of writing!
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Narrative Plot Structure – Story Mountain Template
Use a story mountain template to help your students write narrative texts.
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Writing the Alphabet Chart - Tracing
A chart to assist students when learning how to form letters.
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Persuasive Text Writing Prompts - Complete Set
A set of 5 persuasive writing prompts, covering a variety of topics.
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Persuasive Writing Planning Template Pack
Download this persuasive writing planning template pack that helps upper primary students organise their ideas clearly and confidently as they prepare to write compelling, well‑structured persuasive texts.
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18 Editing and Proofreading Worksheets – Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation
Use these editing and proofreading worksheets to add daily editing practice to your lesson plans.
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Sequence an Example Persuasive Text – Cut and Paste Worksheets
Use this example persuasive text pack to teach your students about sequencing arguments in a logical order.
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Developing Narrative Writing Skills PowerPoint - Year 3 and Year 4
Teach your students about the structure and language features of narrative texts with an engaging interactive Narrative Writing Teaching Slide Presentation.
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OREO® Planning Template - Persuasive Paragraph
Help your students write well constructed persuasive paragraphs using the OREO acronym with these planning templates.
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Nouns, Proper Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs and Conjunctions Posters
Enhance student understanding of the 8 parts of speech with these colourful, informative and easily-referenced grammar wall posters.
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Persuasive Prompts Pack
Download this persuasive prompts pack to support students in planning and writing persuasive texts on a variety of age-appropriate topics.
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Writing Persuasive Texts Teaching Slides
Teach your students about writing a persuasive text using this detailed slideshow targeted at upper primary school students.
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5 Narrative Writing Stimulus Sheets
Writing stimulus sheets with a narrative focus.
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NAPLAN-Style Reading Magazine – Year 5
5 reading texts with multiple choice questions for NAPLAN Reading Year 5.
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Identifying Descriptive Language Worksheets - Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs and Adverbs
A set of 5 worksheets to help your students identify descriptive language in narrative texts.
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Persuasive Planning Template
A planning template to assist students in writing a well-structured persuasive text.
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Tracing Numbers 0-20 Handwriting Worksheet
Get your students tracing numbers from 0-20 with this number formation worksheet available in Australian school fonts.
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NAPLAN Reading Magazine – Year 3
5 reading texts with multiple choice questions for NAPLAN Reading Year 3.
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Alphabet Handwriting Sheets - Individual
Handwriting sheets for each letter of the alphabet.
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Identifying Persuasive Language Worksheets
Explore persuasive language with your students using this set of five persuasive texts on a variety of age-appropriate topics.
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5 Persuasive Writing Prompts
Inspire your students through these relevant persuasive writing prompts.
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Year 3 NAPLAN Test Practice - Language Conventions - Spelling
Get ready for the test with Year 3 NAPLAN Test Practice Sheets.
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Free Letter Tracing Worksheets - State Fonts
Use letter tracing worksheets to help your students develop their handwriting and fine motor skills.
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Persuasive Writing Examples and Analysis Worksheet
Use these persuasive writing examples to teach your students how purpose, structure and language features work together in strong persuasive texts.
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NAPLAN Spelling Reference List
Prepare your students for NAPLAN Language Conventions assessments with a printable NAPLAN Spelling Reference List.
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Persuasive Devices Teaching Slides
Explore persuasive language devices with your students using this detailed and age-appropriate slideshow perfect for your persuasive writing unit.
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Narrative Writing Checklist Pack
Use this narrative checklist pack when teaching your students how to edit their narrative writing.
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Cut and Paste Sentences Worksheets (F-1)
Practise making simple sentences with a set of printable Cut and Paste Sentence Worksheets.
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Writing Narrative Texts Teaching Slides
Teach your students the features of narrative texts using this detailed slideshow targeted at upper primary school students.
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Year 3 Editing Passages
Use this set of Year 3 editing passages to help your students demonstrate their spelling, punctuation and grammar knowledge.
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