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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Homophones Poster Pack
Surround your students with examples of homophones with this set of 20 classroom posters.
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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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Phoneme Segmentation Worksheets - CVCC/CCVC Words
Use this worksheet pack to give students practice at segmenting words into phonemes.
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World Landmarks Fact File Pack
Explore world landmarks through engaging fact files and cross‑curriculum activities that build students’ comprehension skills and global awareness.
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Figurative Language Poster Pack
Remind your students about the most common types of figurative language with this set of classroom display posters.
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Reading Comprehension Strategies Interactive Activity
Use this interactive quiz to review key reading comprehension skills with your students.
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Inferring During Reading PowerPoint
Build strong comprehension skills with this engaging Inferring During Reading PowerPoint.
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Year 1 High Frequency Words Reading Mats
Use these Year 1 High Frequency words reading mats to help students identify and read high frequency words.
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I Spy Alphabet Sounds Mat
Use these ‘I Spy’ Alphabet Sounds Mats to explore the different letter-sound correspondence of the alphabet.
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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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Printable Bubble Maps - Templates
Support student thinking and vocabulary development with printable bubble maps!
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Picture Comprehension Worksheet Pack
Use this engaging Picture Comprehension Worksheet Pack to develop critical thinking and reading skills with your early years students.
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Word Whizz - Spelling Game for Kids
Play ‘Word Whizz’, a fast-paced spelling game for kids that encourages quick thinking and correct spelling.
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Spelling Homework Grid Pack
Give your students a variety of fun options for spelling homework with Differentiated Spelling Homework Grid Templates.
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The Three States of Matter – Year 5 Reading Worksheets
Use a Year 5 Reading Comprehension passage and worksheet to teach your students about the three states of matter.
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Animals in Winter - Year 1 Reading Worksheets
Blend Year 1 Science and Reading with a printable pack of Animals in Winter reading comprehension worksheets.
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Colour-Coding Summarising Nonfiction Text Worksheets
Practise summarising small nonfiction texts with this fun colour-coding set of worksheets.
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Summarising Teaching Slides
Teach students all about summarising with 15 teaching slides of summarising goodness.
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Koala Adaptations Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Learn about the physical and behavioural adaptations of the koala with a set of printable reading comprehension worksheets for Year 4-5.
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Spelling Double Consonant Words - Word Building Cards
Practise spelling and building words that need double consonants when adding suffixes with a word-building activity.
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Renewable vs Non-Renewable Energy Sources – Worksheet
Discover the difference between renewable and non-renewable energy sources with a comprehension passage and worksheet.
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Alliteration Poem Poster and Templates
Use this alliteration poem example and accompanying worksheets to teach your students how to write an alliteration poem.
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Compare and Contrast - Venn Diagram Template
A template to use when teaching students how to compare and contrast.
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Real Estate Listing Inference Worksheets
Support comprehension with inference worksheets that guide students in interpreting real estate descriptions and justifying their ideas with clear textual evidence.
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Blending CVC Word Activity
Use this Blending CVC Word Activity with your students to get them practising blending simple CVC words.
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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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High Frequency Words Mini Books in School Fonts
Explore the tricky parts in sight words with this set of 20 printable sight word mini books.
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Visual Literacy Worksheets
Enhance critical thinking with visual literacy worksheets that guide students to analyse images, infer meaning and explore how pictures tell powerful stories.
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Poetry Analysis Worksheet Pack
Analyse and comprehend a variety of poetry types with a printable Poetry analysis worksheet pack.
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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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Beginning Sounds Worksheets
Use these beginning sounds worksheets to explore each letter of the alphabet and their matching phoneme by searching and finding images.
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Dolch Pre-Primer Sight Word Sheets - Spelling
Practice Pre-Primer Dolch Sight words with six weeks of daily sight word sheets for Foundation Year students.
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