Reading Teaching Resources for Year 1
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What's Missing? – Interactive PowerPoint
An interactive presentation where students try to guess what object is missing from the picture.
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My Word Builder Folder
An individual word building folder to develop and consolidate students’ phonemic awareness.
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Human Histories: Helpful Heroes – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for an article about people around the world who have dedicated their lives to helping others.
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Looking For a Book? – Suggestions Jar
A suggestions jar to help your students choose an appropriate book.
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Recommended Books: Lower Years
A list of recommended books for lower years created by award-winning teacher-librarian Megan Daley.
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Alphabetise the Aquarium Activity
A set of 4 mats for students to practise alphabetising.
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Mould It! Task Cards
A set of 28 playdough activity cards.
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Bump! Blending at the End of a Word - Board Game
Practise decoding words with a final consonant blend with this board game.
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Guided Reading Groups - Organiser Template
Use this template to easily identify your guided reading groups and move students to different levels.
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Guided Reading Folder - Cover and Dividers
Use this collection of templates to organise your guided reading folder.
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Identifying Short Vowel Sounds Interactive PowerPoint
An interactive quiz to practise identifying short vowel sounds in words.
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Word Family Sorting Cards
A set of 36 sorting cards to reinforce word families and rhyming with your students.
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Guided Reading Groups - Fluency and Accuracy Tool
Use this template to assess fluency and accuracy during reading.
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Guided Reading Groups - Comprehension Question Prompts
Refer to this table during a guided reading session for questions to ask your students before, during and after reading.
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Guided Reading Groups - Progress Tracker
Use this resource to track the progress of students during your guided reading groups.
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Guided Reading Groups - Text Tracker
Use this resource to track the texts each of your guided reading groups read.
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'Choose It' – Book Selection Poster
Help students make choices about which books to read with this handy classroom poster.
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Human Histories: World Explorers – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a magazine article about some world explorers and their achievements.
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CVC Spinner
A set of 22 CVC spinners for students to practice Consonant Vowel Consonant words.
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Reading Detectives Display Banner
A classroom display banner to use on your 'Reading' display board.
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Reading Corner Display Banner
A classroom display banner to use on your 'Reading Corner' display board.
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Beginning Blends Interactive PowerPoint Activity
Use this bright and interactive PowerPoint activity where Year 1 students identify beginning blends and type the correct two letters to match each image.
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Alphabetical Order Poster
A poster explaining how to order words according to their place in the alphabet.
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Alphabetical Order Dominoes
A set of dominoes to consolidate students' understanding of alphabetical order.
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Poetry Resource Folder Cover and Dividers
Use this collection of templates to organise your classroom poetry resources folder.
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Ninja Race Phonics Game
A fun, engaging board game to consolidate students' understanding of digraphs and rhyme.
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Before, During and After Reading Non-Fiction Questions - Wheel
5 different versions of wheels to use when asking questions before, during and after reading.
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Before, During and After Reading Fiction Questions - Wheel
5 different versions of wheels to use when asking questions before, during and after reading.
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Author's Purpose - Sentence Writing Game
A teaching resource to help teach your students the different reasons authors may write.
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Literacy Assessment Tracker - Viewing and Reading Prep to Year 7 (QLD)
A literacy assessment tool to monitor student progress for viewing and reading from Prep to Year 6.
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Character Emotions Worksheet
Make inferences about character's feelings with this one-page worksheet.
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Features of a Book Cover Poster
A poster highlighting the main features of the front cover of a book.