Open up a world of reading to your students with thousands of printable reading worksheets, reading center activities, anchor charts, Google Slides, and thousands more teacher-created resources to get every child you teach hooked on books!
Are you teaching foundational language skills to primary students who are in the early stages of literacy? Or maybe you're teaching in the upper elementary grades where chapter books rule the school?
No matter the grade or the students' reading levels, this collection of teaching resources from Teach Starter's teacher team has curriculum-aligned options to help you cut down on the time-consuming task of lesson planning and help your elementary class meet both Common Core and state-level standards.
With editable options for many of the digital and printable teaching resources in the collection, you can easily differentiate instruction to meet students where they are at as they build their understanding of written and oral language.
Here's just a taste of what you can find in this reading resource collection:
Familiarize students with finding the 5 elements of plot in a literary text.
Integrate reading, writing, and American history with a worksheet about the Boston Tea Party using the RACES writing strategy for text evidence.
Practice using the RACES writing strategy for text evidence with a Lewis and Clark Passage, graphic organizer, and worksheet.
A 'Wanted' poster template that can be used in a variety of ways in the classroom.
Differentiate reading instruction with leveled nonfiction, compare and contrast passages, and worksheets.
Use this passage, second grade writing prompt, and worksheet to help students write a constructed response paragraph about Amelia Earhart.
A template for students to use when planning the plot structure of a narrative text.
Increase vocabulary skills with anchor charts about prefixes and suffixes.
Teach your students to analyze characters more effectively by providing them with a list of character traits.
Analyze different moon phases and how their visual appearances change over time with this reading comprehension worksheet.
A teaching presentation outlining the similarities and differences between an inference and a prediction.
Use this teacher-created weather resource to teach weather vocabulary. Build a word wall with your students during your weather lessons.
Read and learn about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch with a reading comprehension passage and worksheet pack.
A graphic organizer for students to use to summarize a fiction text.
Help students succeed in reading fluency with this bookmark and poster set of strategies for decoding unknown words.
Reinforce students' knowledge of rhyming words with this set of 30 picture cards.
A comprehension task to use when learning about Malala Yousafzai.
A comic book themed worksheet to use in the classroom when building vocabulary.
Review our profile on Congresswoman and first Black presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm, and answer questions to reinforce understanding.
An 80-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of quick warm-up activities.
Practice reading comprehension skills and learn about microplastic pollution in our oceans with a reading comprehension activity.
A graphic organizer for students to use when categorizing sensory details.
Segment beginning, middle vowel, and final phonemes with this set of 20 CVC word task cards.
Add a prefix to the beginning of a root word and use the new words in sentences.
A set of comprehension task cards to help students identify the author's purpose when reading.
A graphic organizer for students to use when taking notes.
Build vocabulary skills surrounding Easter with a fun Easter game for kids!
Practice identifying and matching synonyms with a fun St. Patrick’s Day Craft Activity.
Learn about the planets with differentiated compare and contrast passages, activities, and writing opportunities.
Display these cute sloth-themed story elements anchor charts when learning about narrative texts.
A 2 page worksheet for students to use when learning how to write a limerick.
Demonstrate writing a persuasive letter with an opinion writing anchor chart.