Reading Teaching Resources for Year 3
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Reading World Scavenger Hunt
Get your students reading with this set of 20 reading tasks for your class to complete as part of a reading challenge.
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Valentine’s Day Word Search
Stretch your upper primary students’ vocabulary and reading skills with a sweet Valentine’s Day word search.
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Character Analysis Task Cards
Get your students to perform a character analysis for any fictional character using this set of 20 task cards.
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Types of Syllables Posters
Remind your students about the most common syllable types with this set of classroom display posters.
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Play Script Template
A template for students to use when writing their own play script.
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Alphabetical Order Task Cards – Set 1
A set of 11 task cards alphabetising a series of words to the first letter.
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Onomatopoeia Poems Poster and Templates
Use this onomatopoeia poem poster and accompanying template to teach your students how to write an onomatopoeia poem.
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Extreme Environments: Lands of Ice and Sand – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for an information report from the Year 4 magazine (Issue 3).
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Summarising a Story Flipbook
A template for students to use when summarising a story.
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Year 3 Magazine - "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 2) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 2 of Teach Starter’s Year 3 magazine.
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Book Recommendation Template
Create a class book recommendation display with this printable template.
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Poetry Vocabulary Words – Word Wall
Display and discuss vocabulary related to poetry and figurative language with a set of 30 word wall cards.
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Finger Twist Up - Phonics Game
A fun, engaging board game to consolidate students' understanding of blends and sounds.
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Story Sequencing - Template
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to sequence important events when reading.
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Comprehension Task Cards - Understand Sequence
A set of comprehension task cards to help students understand sequence when reading.
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Movie Versus Book Popcorn and Drink Review - Template
Templates that students can compare and review a movie and a book with the same title, then construct them into a 3D popcorn box and movie drink cup.
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Reading Conference Recording Sheet
An editable recording sheet to use during reading conferences across all grades.
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Comprehension - Homework is Unnecessary
A comprehension activity using a persuasive text for lower grades.
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Comprehension - Thunderstorms
A comprehension activity using an information text about thunderstorms.
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Readers' Theatre - Scripts Tracker
A document listing all of Teach Starter's scripts for Readers' Theatre.
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Introduction to Homophones Teaching Slides
Teach your students how to use homophones correctly in their writing with this comprehensive set of teaching slides.
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Poetry Analysis Template
A 1 page template for students to use when analysing a poem.
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Sight Word Cards - Dolch Nouns
Dolch Nouns sight words on flash cards.
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Ghost Train Cloze Worksheet
A narrative vocabulary cloze worksheet.
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Heroic Homophones Cloze Worksheet
Help your students select the correct homophone to use in context with this one-page cloze passage worksheet.
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Soccer Cloze Worksheet
A vocabulary cloze worksheet about soccer.
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Understanding Sequence - Jack and the Beanstalk
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to understand sequence when reading.
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Reading Preferences Survey
Help students gain a greater understanding of the books they like to read with this reading preferences survey.
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Triple Venn Diagram Template
Download a printable Triple Venn Diagram Template to use when comparing and contrasting three topics.
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Book an Adventure Craft - Suitcase Book Review
Boost reading comprehension skills with a Book an Adventure Craft to engage young readers during Children’s Book Week.
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Book an Adventure - Book Week Reading Challenge Tracker
Challenge your students to read up to 25 books during Book Week with a printable Book Week Reading Challenge Tracker.
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Earth’s Resources Worksheet - Natural Resources & Fossil Fuels (3-4)
Explore what's buried in rocks underground with a printable Earth’s Resources Worksheet for Year 4.