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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Narrative Elements - Worksheet
Practise identifying characters, settings, problems and solutions in fictional texts with this set of worksheets.
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Main Idea Kettle Writing Template
Create a cute kettle template to help students understands the main idea and supporting detail while reading.
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Main Idea and Details Burger Template
Consolidate knowledge of the main idea and supporting detail with this main idea hamburger template.
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Main Idea Exit Tickets
Check for understanding of the main idea and supporting detail with these exit tickets.
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Prefixes and Suffixes - Colour By Code Worksheets
Practise identifying words with affixes with a fun colour-by-code worksheet.
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Beginning, Middle and End Mini-Book - The Three Bears
Teach your students about the beginning, middle and end of a story with this mini-book retell of The Three Bears.
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Sort the Suffixes - Worksheets
Practise using the suffixes -s, -es, -ies and -ves with a pack of printable add-a-suffix worksheets.
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Suffix Mini Anchor Charts
Give your students a visual reminder of the meanings of 28 affixes with a printable set of miniature suffix anchor charts.
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Greek and Latin Roots- Vocabulary Notebook
Enhance vocabulary containing Greek and Latin roots with a Google Slides Interactive vocabulary notebook. Also available in print format.
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Building Words with Prefixes Sorting Activity
Build words by matching the root word to prefixes and recording the new terms on the answer sheet.
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Popcorn Synonyms and Antonyms - Interactive Sort
Make your students’ vocabulary skills ’POP’ with an interactive, drag-and-drop synonym and antonym activity.
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Parts of a Dictionary Poster Set
Display this poster set in the classroom when learning dictionary skills and the parts of a dictionary.
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Pick the Synonym - Self-Checking Interactive Activity
Build some ‘llama-zing’ vocabulary skills using a fun llama-themed self-checking activity with synonyms!
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Greek and Latin Roots Poster Pack
Encourage vocabulary development with a set of 24 Greek and Latin Roots posters.
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Deforestation Infographic Comprehension Activity
Read and learn about deforestation with an engaging infographic and comprehension worksheet.
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Blending and Segmenting Phonemes - Interactive Activity
Practise blending and segmenting phonemes in common words with this engaging interactive activity.
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The Stern Teacher - Decodable Reader (Level 6)
Develop confident, successful readers with this phonics-based, printable decodable book.
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The Birthday Surprise - Decodable Reader (Level 6)
Develop confident, successful readers with this phonics-based, printable decodable book.
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Synonyms - Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle
Boost vocabulary skills with a fun synonym crossword puzzle.
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Basketball Word Fun Worksheets
Have a bit of word-friendly fun with your sports fanatics using a pack of basketball themed worksheets.
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Vibrant Varieties – Other Words for 'Very' Wheel
Replace the word 'very' in your students' writings by giving them a 'wheely' good synonyms reference guide.
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CVC Spell and Write Task Cards
Practise spelling CVC words and manipulating their phonemes to create word chains with this set of hands-on work mats.
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Quinn's Chicken - Decodable Reader (Level 4)
Develop confident, successful readers with this phonics-based, printable decodable book.
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What Can I See? - Decodable Reader (Level 3)
Develop confident, successful readers with this phonics-based, printable decodable book.
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Nick Is Sick! - Decodable Reader (Level 2)
Develop confident, successful readers with this phonics-based, printable decodable book.
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Growing Compound Words Interactive Activity
Build compound words with an interactive compound word game.
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Character Analysis Task Cards
Use these task cards to practise analysing characters within any fictional text.
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Counting Syllables Sorting Activity - Penguins
Help these freezing cold syllable penguins escape the frigid water by sorting them onto the correct ice floes.
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Word Study List - Consonant + LE
Introduce and explore two-syllable words containing a consonant + le syllable with this extensive list.
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Word Study List - Suffixes
Introduce and explore common suffixes with this extensive list of words.
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Word Study List - Hard and Soft C
Introduce and explore words containing the hard and soft c with this extensive list of words.
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Word Study List - Long Vowels
Introduce and explore words containing graphemes that make long vowel sounds with this extensive list of words.
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