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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Long Vowel Phoneme Spotter Stories
Use this set of decodable texts featuring various graphemes that make long vowel sounds.
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Uppercase and Lowercase Matching Worksheet Set
Use these uppercase and lowercase matching worksheets to help students identify and name both forms of each letter.
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Sentence Fluency Worksheet Pack
Improve reading fluency and comprehension with this Sentence Fluency Worksheet Pack..
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Book an Adventure Bookmarks - Free Printable Colouring Bookmarks
Give your students brand new Book Week Bookmarks with our free printable colouring bookmarks template.
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Personal Spelling Dictionary Booklet
Help young learners build their writing and spelling confidence with their very own Personal Spelling Dictionary Booklet!
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Exploring Earthquakes - Comprehension Worksheets
Give your Year 5-6 students a clear, engaging introduction to earthquakes with printable Earthquakes Comprehension Worksheets.
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Misleading Advertising Examples and Analysis Worksheets
Explore misleading advertising through three engaging fake advertisements with accompanying worksheets that help students identify deceptive techniques, analyse persuasive language, and become more informed consumers.
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Suffix Cut and Paste Worksheets
Build strong word‑building skills with Suffix Sandcastles, a collection of six engaging cut‑and‑paste worksheets designed to help students master common suffix endings.
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Year 2 Reading Comprehension Test - Being a Good Pet Parent
Build comprehension skills and learn about being a good pet parent by limiting pets' impact on ecosystems with a reading passage and comprehension questions.
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Year 3 Magazine - What's Buzzing? (Issue 1)
A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 3 students.
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Inference Scenarios Task Cards
Download these inference scenarios task cards to help your students practise ‘between the lines’ thinking while reading.
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Explanation Text Examples and Analysis Worksheets
Use these explanation text examples with accompanying analysis worksheets to teach your students about the purpose, structure and language features of explanatory writing.
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Spell and Count - Money Maths Activity
Develop spelling and money-counting skills simultaneously with a printable spelling and money maths centre activity.
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Free Wanted Poster Template Pack
Use a 'Wanted' poster template pack to encourage your students to research and write about historic figures and more!
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Inference Comics Worksheets
Use this set of comic strips when teaching your students how to infer information from everyday situations.
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Fact and Opinion Worksheets – Cut and Paste
Use these fact and opinion worksheets to help your students identify the difference between fact statements and opinion statements.
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Compare and Contrast Reading Comprehension Task
Help students strengthen their compare and contrast reading comprehension skills by reading an engaging passage about cats and dogs.
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Prefix and Suffix Search Worksheets
Build confident vocabulary and word‑study skills with this engaging Prefixes & Suffixes Search Worksheet Pack.
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Tropical Cyclone Worksheet Pack - Year 6 Comprehension
Use our Tropical Cyclone worksheet pack to teach your students about natural disasters.
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Colour by Sight Word Worksheet Pack
Use this set of colour by sight words worksheets to help students master the tricky elements in each word.
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Giant Squid Reading Comprehension Worksheets - Year 5
Read and learn about the features and adaptations of the giant squid with reading comprehension worksheets for years 5 and 6.
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Which Homophone? Worksheets
Download this differentiated homophones worksheet to help your students become more familiar with this tricky vocabulary!
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Monster Magic - Reading Comprehension Activity
Read and comprehend a set of instructions to create a magical monster!
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Plant and Animal Adaptations - Reading Comprehension Passage
Boost reading comprehension skills with a comprehension passage, with questions, about structural, behavioural and physiological adaptations.
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CVC Beginning and Ending Letters Worksheet Pack
Practise identifying missing beginning and ending sounds and letters in this set of 10 CVC worksheets.
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Note Taking Graphic Organiser
A graphic organiser for students to use when recording research notes.
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Spelling Worksheets for Any List
Grab these free spelling worksheets for any list and use them to prep your weekly spelling homework with ease!
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Paired Passage Worksheets-Mammals vs. Reptiles
Compare mammals vs. reptiles and add to your reading instruction with leveled nonfiction, compare and contrast passages, and worksheets.
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Year 2 Magazine - What's Buzzing? (Issue 1)
A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically written for Year 2 students.
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Inflectional Endings - Spelling with Suffixes Worksheets
Spell words with the inflectional endings -ed, -ing, -s, -es and -ies with a pack of printable practise worksheets covering inflected endings.
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Elements of Poetry Workbook
Explore the wonders of poetry with this set of poems and accompanying worksheets designed specifically for children.
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Show Don’t Tell Posters – Character Feelings
Use this set of Show, Don’t Tell posters to help your students describe character emotions through vivid details instead of simple statements.
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