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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Free Click or Clunk Worksheet
Support students in monitoring their reading comprehension with this Click and Clunk Reading Strategy Recording Sheet!
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Self Monitoring Reading Comprehension Strategies Flipbook
Get students practising their self monitoring while reading skills with this activities flipbook.
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ABC Order Spelling Words Worksheet Pack
Practise ABC Order & Spelling Words with printable ABC order spelling worksheet templates.
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Monitor and Clarify Reading Strategy Digital Task Cards
Help students gain more practise in monitoring while reading using these Monitoring and Clarifying Reading Strategy Practise digital task cards.
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Making Predictions Game Board
Use this Making Predictions Game Board to engage students in making predictions with short text.
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Vocabulary Foldables for Interactive Notebooks
Use Vocabulary Foldables to help your students demonstrate and review a variety of vocabulary concepts.
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Free Story Prediction Worksheet
Encourage students to think critically before reading with this Story Prediction Worksheet.
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Making Predictions Before, During, After Reading Bookmark
Support student comprehension with these Making Predictions Before, During and After Bookmarks.
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Vocabulary Journal Template - Mini Book
Use our printable vocabulary journal template to make and keep daily vocabulary learning logs in the classroom.
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Flags of the World - Print and Cursive Alphabet Line
Display the alphabet in print or cursive with a unique Flags of the World Alphabet Line.
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Cause and Effect Matching Cards
Build comprehension skills with your students using this cause and effect matching activity.
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Letter Sound Digital Task Cards
Explore letter sounds with your students using this Alphabet Letter Sounds Game Bonanza digital activity.
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Letters and Sounds Bingo
Practise applying letter-sound correspondence with a set of 20 BINGO game boards and cards.
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Phoneme Manipulation Worksheet Pack
Use these phoneme manipulation worksheets to help students develop their phonemic awareness skills.
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Blending Words Game Boards
Engage students in blending a number of words using this set of levelled phoneme blending game boards.
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Blending Words Digital Quiz
Get your students to practise their blending with simple CVC words using this digital activity.
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Blending Words Worksheet Pack
Explore blending phonemes in a variety of ways using this worksheet pack for your students.
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Learn to Read Short U - Daily Phonics for Kids
Use our week-long Interactive Short U Word Building Interactive to teach daily phonics lessons for beginning readers!
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Shades of Meaning in Verbs Worksheet Pack
Help your students explore different verbs for their writing with these shades of meaning verb worksheets.
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Spin and Blend Onset and Rime Pack
Practise blending onset and rime words with this set of spin and blend worksheets.
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Beat the Blast Off! CVC, CVCC and CCVC Spelling Game
Use this collaborative partner game to familiarise your students with some of the most common CVC, CVCC and CCVC words.
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Yes or No? Phonics Sorting Activity
Use this phonics activity to help your students identify the different phonemes that make up a word.
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The Olympic Games - Comprehension Task
Encourage students to apply a range of comprehension and writing skills when finding out interesting fun facts about the Olympics with a printable reading comprehension task.
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Australian Conservationists: Miranda Gibson – Comprehension Worksheet
Learn about Miranda Gibson and her conservation work with this 2-page reading passage and accompanying comprehension questions.
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Australian Conservationists: Tim Flannery – Comprehension Worksheet
Learn about Tim Flannery and his conservation work with this 2-page reading passage and accompanying comprehension questions.
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Newspaper Themed Book Report Templates
Read and write all about it with a fun newspaper-themed book review template.
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Compound Word Quiz
Assess your student’s abilities to read, spell, and use compound words with a Compound Word Quiz.
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Compound Words Teaching Slides
Teach your students to identify, combine, and read compound words with an interactive Compound Words teaching presentation.
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Spin and Spell Spelling - Months of the Year Worksheet
Spin and spell the months of the year with a free spelling worksheet for year 2.
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Poison Dart Frog Adaptations – Year 5 Reading Worksheets
Explore the adaptations of a poison dart frog with printable reading comprehension worksheets for Year 5.
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Harmony Day Cloze and Comprehension Worksheets
Educate students about the meaning behind Harmony Day with these cloze and comprehension worksheets for upper year students.
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How to Summarise Nonfiction Mini Book
Explore the elements needed for a good summary of nonfiction texts with this How to Summarise Nonfiction mini-book.
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