Reading Teaching Resources
Make teaching reading simple with printable worksheets, digital games, activities and so much more right at your fingertips. This teaching resource collection was created by primary teachers for primary teachers like you, and each literacy resource is aligned with the Australian curriculum!
Teaching students how to read opens up their world, and our teaching team knows the task ahead of you is challenging but rewarding. That's why we've designed our printables and digital activities to provide students with a strong foundation in English, creating the basis of lesson plans rooted in best practice and the science of reading.
Best of all, each resource has been through 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!
Literacy Activities for Every Year Level
With games and activities for students from early years classrooms to upper years in this collection, here's just a taste of what is covered in the curriculum-aligned resources you'll find as you explore!
Foundation (Prep)
Foundation teachers can use Teach Starter's extensive literacy resources to focus on students' development of foundational reading skills.
We supply the basis for recognising and naming letters, identifying sounds associated with letters (phonics) and blending sounds to read simple words. Explore activities that promote oral language development, vocabulary expansion and phonemic awareness, as well as resources designed to foster a love for reading, build basic decoding skills and develop comprehension through discussions and shared reading experiences.
Year 1
Teaching year 1? You'll find resources designed to teach students how to apply their knowledge of letter-sound relationships to read and spell words with more complex phonics patterns.
Literacy resources for this year level offer a basis for you to work on fluency in reading by using appropriate phrasing, expression and intonation and introduce your class to various texts — including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry — to build comprehension skills.
Year 2
Year 2 reading activities and games are designed to help students expand their reading skills by developing a larger sight word vocabulary and refining their decoding skills.
Our lesson plans help students recognise and use more advanced phonics patterns — including vowel digraphs and trigraphs. You'll also find resources created by our teacher team to deepen students' comprehension skills, such as making predictions, summarising and making connections to the text.
Year 3
In the year students are expected to sit their first NAPLAN tests to assess their literacy skills, students further develop their reading skills by focusing on more complex texts and strategies.
Our literacy resources are here to provide you support as your students learn to read and understand a wide range of fiction and nonfiction texts, including chapter books and informational texts with specialised vocabulary! Worksheets and reading passages offer students a chance to practise inferring, analysing characters and settings and identifying main ideas and supporting details.
Year 4
Excited to see your year 4 students refine their reading skills by developing greater independence and comprehension? We are too!
With our reading passages and literacy activities, students are given the chance to analyse the author's purpose, evaluate different perspectives and make connections across texts. Our vocabulary resources expose kids to a wide range of words so they can use context clues to determine word meanings.
Year 5
In Year 5, students once again have their literacy skills assessed by NAPLAN, and they continue to build on their reading skills by exploring a variety of texts and genres.
Teach Starter resources for this year help you build your lesson plans around complex language structures and figurative language, as well as providing students with the means to practise evaluating arguments, drawing conclusions and identifying bias and propaganda.
As you engage students in discussions about texts, our reading activities offer students a chance to express their opinions and support their ideas with evidence from the text.
Year 6
As your year 6 students consolidate and extend their reading skills in preparation for secondary school, you'll find a range of texts to support your lesson plans, including poetry, drama, and media texts.
Explore resources designed to give students practise analysing literary techniques, understanding symbolism and interpreting implicit and explicit meanings.
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10 - 100 Book Challenge Reading Log Bookshelf Template
Start and track progress through the 100-Book Challenge with a fun reading log bookshelf template!
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Dolch Sight Word Flashcards
Use this set of the first 100 Dolch sight words flashcards to help students master through phonics-based understanding and meaningful practice.
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Beginning Blends Bingo
Increase reading confidence with this beginning blends bingo game that engages learners while reviewing 22 beginning blends.
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Symbols and Signs Environment Poster Pack
Help your students recognise the world around them with this engaging Symbols and Signs in the Environment Poster Pack!
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Social Context in Literature Graphic Organiser
Support students to explore social context in literature with this two-page graphic organiser that helps them explore societal norms in a piece of literature.
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Signs in the Community Worksheet Set
Help young learners recognise and understand the world around them with these Signs in the Community Worksheets.
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Earth’s Resources Worksheet - Natural Resources & Fossil Fuels (3-4)
Explore what's buried in rocks underground with a printable Earth’s Resources Worksheet for Year 3.
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Spell and Score - Word Tile Game for Kids
Play ‘Spell-and-Score’, an exciting Word Tile Spelling Game to help your students practise spelling words.
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Author's Purpose Sentence Starter Flashcards
Assist students in identifying the author’s purpose with this set of Author’s Purpose Example Sentence Starter flashcards.
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Author’s Purpose Sorting Activity
Use this author’s purpose sort to teach your students the difference between persuasive, informative and narrative writing.
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NAPLAN - Language Conventions - Spelling Pack (Year 5)
A set of 12 worksheets with spelling words for NAPLAN Language Conventions Year 5.
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Spelling Spinner Homework Activity - Differentiated
Have fun practising spelling words with an engaging Spelling Spinner Game for any spelling word list.
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Word of the Week PowerPoint – Year 4 Vocabulary Words
A 40 slide PowerPoint template for introducing new vocabulary to Year 4 students.
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Pictures for Making Predictions – Clip Card Task Cards
Engage young learners in predicting with these Pictures for Making Predictions Clip Cards, no reading required.
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Word of the Week PowerPoint – Year 5 Vocabulary Words
A 40 slide PowerPoint template for introducing new vocabulary to Year 5 students.
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Word of the Week PowerPoint – Year 6 Vocabulary Words
A 40 slide PowerPoint template for introducing new vocabulary to Year 6 students.
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Making Predictions Graphic Organiser Pack
Enhance reading comprehension by using these Making Predictions Graphic Organiser templates in your classroom.
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'I Can' Statement Cards - Lower Primary Literacy
Highlight your classroom learning targets with printable 'I Can' Statements for lower primary students.
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Sock Letter Matching Activity
Match socks together for a great letter matching activity where the lowercase letter, uppercase letter and beginning sounds are matched.
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Beginning Sounds Match Dominoes
Explore letter-sound correspondence and beginning word sounds with this set of 52 letter and picture dominoes.
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The Gingerbread Man Story Sequencing Cards
Teach your students about retelling with this set of printable gingerbread man story sequencing cards.
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CVC Successive Phoneme Blending Task Cards
Help students blend CVC words by using the successive blending technique with this set of easy to use phoneme blending task cards.
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Alphabet Puzzle Uppercase and Lowercase Activity
Use this hands-on matching activity to support students' recognition of lowercase and uppercase letters.
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Alphabet Picture and Letter Cards
Practise letter recognition and letter sounds with this set of alphabet letter and picture cards.
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Grammar Practice Worksheets - Vocabulary Cut and Sort
Review parts of speech and vocabulary skills with a pack of cut-and-paste grammar practice worksheets.
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Sight Word Splash Game
Use this collaborative partner game to allow your students to practise reading and writing some of the most common high-frequency words.
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Alphabet Flashcards
Use these alphabet flashcards to help familiarise your students with the letters of the alphabet and their corresponding sounds.
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Onset and Rime Mini Flipbooks
Practise reading onset and rime words with this interactive mini flipbook.
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CVC Words Bingo Game
Practise decoding simple CVC words with this set of printable Bingo boards.
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Compound Word List Bundle
Introduce your students to different levels and types of compound words with a pack of printable compound word lists.
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Compound Words - Worksheet Pack
Practise using compound words in sentences with. a pair of printable compound word worksheets for older students.
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How to Summarise Fiction Mini Book
Explore the important factors of summarising a fiction text with this student mini-book.
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