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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Let's Get Ready to Rock! – Reading Comprehension Worksheet
Read and discover the three types of rock with a set of Year 3 Reading Comprehension Worksheets.
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Year 6 Magazine – What's Buzzing? (Issue 3)
Issue 3 of our beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 6 students.
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Year 2 Magazine – What’s Buzzing? (Issue 2)
A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 2 students.
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Spelling CCVC Words - Worksheets
Develop students’ ability to segment and blend the sounds in CCVC words with this set of differentiated worksheets.
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Level 3 Decodable Readers - Worksheet Pack
A set of one-pager worksheet versions of the texts from our Level 3 decodable readers
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Rainbow Alphabet Display - Animals
Display these rainbow-themed alphabet posters with animals in your classroom.
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Activating Prior Knowledge - Comprehension Strategy Task Cards
A set of 12 task cards to help students activate their prior knowledge before reading.
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Book Wish List
Nurture your students' interest in books and reading with this book wish list.
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Character Description – Text Analysis Worksheets
Teach character description with this set of four worksheets that help students explore how authors use the STEAL technique to bring characters to life.
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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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Year 2 Magazine – "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 3) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 3 of Teach Starter’s Year 2 magazine.
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Year 2 Spelling Practice Worksheets - Weekly Homework
Make assigning homework easy all year with Year 2 Spelling Practice Worksheets.
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Tier Two Vocabulary List - Year 3
Use Our Tier Two Vocabulary List to boost year 3 vocabulary and reading skills
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Free Rainbow Writing Template Pack
Brighten up your spelling homework toolbox with a Free Rainbow Writing Template Pack!
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Prediction in Reading Comprehension Task
Help students to engage with prediction during reading with this predictions in reading comprehension task.
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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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CVC Word Blending Cut and Paste Worksheets
Help students practise blending and reading CVC words with this set of 6 cut-and-paste worksheets.
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Year 6 Magazine - What's Buzzing? (Issue 2)
Issue 2 of our beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 6 students.
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Rules for Plurals - s, es, ies, ves
Display the different rules for plurals with a printable plural noun anchor chart.
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Decodable Readers Teacher Support Pack
A set of free supplementary resources to support the implementation of Teach Starter’s series of phonics-based decodable readers.
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Vowel Digraphs Poster Pack
Expose your students to the most common vowel digraphs with this set of 24 posters.
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Short Vowel Worksheets - Middle Sounds
Three worksheets to allow students to practise identifying the middle vowel sound of CVC words.
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Comprehension - Roald Dahl
A comprehension activity using a biography of Roald Dahl.
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Fiction vs Non-Fiction Posters
Teach students the difference between fiction and non-fiction with this set of two classroom posters perfect for early years classrooms.
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Exploring and Building Narrative Characters PowerPoint
Use this editable PowerPoint template when teaching younger students about how to build a character for a narrative text.
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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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Bloom's Taxonomy Reading Comprehension Task Cards
Deepen your students' reading comprehension with a set of reading task cards based on Bloom's taxonomy.
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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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Alphabet Sounds Worksheets
Explore alphabet beginning sounds with this set of alphabet sounds worksheets to develop letter recognition.
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Dogs Make The Best Pets - Reading Comprehension Test
Assess reading comprehension skills with printable Reading and Writing Comprehension worksheets.
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Summarising Fiction Poster Set
Help students remember what to include in a summary of a fiction text with this easy to use SWBST acronym.
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Inference Pictures – Digital Question Pack
Download this set of captivating pictures and thought-provoking questions designed to challenge students’ inference-making abilities.
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