Reading Teaching Resources
Open up a world of reading to your students with thousands of printable reading worksheets, center activities, anchor charts, Google Slides templates and thousands more teacher-created resources.
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 or on the middle school level 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 is chock full of curriculum-aligned options to help you cut down on the time-consuming task of lesson planning. Help your class meet both Common Core and state-level standards with ELA resources that have undergone a thorough review process to ensure they're ready for your classroom and your students!
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 as they build their understanding of written and oral language.
Reading Resources for Teachers
Here's just a taste of what you can find in this reading resource collection:
- Comprehension texts and comprehension strategy materials for students from kindergarten through 6th grade
- Sight words worksheets, games, and interactives
- Readers theater scripts
- Classroom posters with reading hints and tips for students
- Vocabulary skill-building activities
- Reading response worksheets and activities that let students practice interacting with text, using text evidence, and learning to summarize
- And more!
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100 Day Mini Book
Create a mini-book by completing the 100-item writing prompts and illustrating each page.
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How Many Syllables? - Worksheet
Practice counting syllables in spoken words.
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Mood in Narrative Writing – Text Analysis Worksheets
Teach mood in narrative writing with this set of four worksheets designed to help students explore narrative atmosphere in the context of real texts.
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Idioms: What Are They and What Do They Mean? PowerPoint
An editable PowerPoint presentation to use when teaching idioms.
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Identifying Idioms and Their Meanings - Worksheet
A worksheet to practice identifying idioms and their meaning.
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This or That! PowerPoint Game - Vowel Teams
An active PowerPoint game to practice decoding words with vowel teams.
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Describe a Story Setting Worksheets
Download these engaging story setting worksheets that help students brainstorm descriptive language and write vivid setting descriptions with ease.
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Long and Short Vowel Sounds Dominoes
Distinguish between long and short vowel sounds with this set of 28 dominoes.
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Making Connections Worksheet
Practice making connections while reading a piece of text with this graphic organizer.
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Pyramid Reading Cards - Dolch 2nd Grade Sight Words
Practice reading Dolch's 2nd Grade Sight Words with a set of 44 pyramid sentence cards.
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Text Structures Slide Deck
An editable text structure instructional slide deck to use when teaching text structures to your students.
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What's a Hyperbole? PowerPoint
An editable 20-slide PowerPoint to use when teaching your students about hyperbole.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - THIS
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “this” from the Kindergarten-level Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - ARE
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “are” from the Kindergarten-level Dolch sight words list.
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Writing With Alliteration Worksheet
Identify and create alliteration patterns in texts.
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3-2-1 Text Reflection Template
Quickly assess your students' comprehension after reading a fictional text with this 3-2-1 reflection activity.
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Phoneme Addition Match-Up Activity
Create new words by adding initial phonemes through 32 match-up cards.
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CVC Word Building Activity
Practice building CVC words with this 25 slide interactive activity.
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Making Text Connections Graphic Organizer (Grades 3-6)
A graphic organizer to use with students when making connections with a piece of text.
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CVC Word Dominoes
Practice decoding and spelling CVC words with this set of 30 dominoes.
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CCVC Word Dominoes
Practice decoding and spelling CCVC words with this set of 28 dominoes.
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Text Features Flashcards
Teach students the definitions of text features such as headings, sidebars, captions and many more with this set of flashcards for elementary students.
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How Does It End? - Final Sounds Printable or Interactive Activity
Practice spelling CVC words with this set of 15 fill-in-the-blank word cards and their matching missing letters.
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Tale of a Whale - Simple Rhyming Poetry Poster
A simple rhyming poem that is perfect to explore phonics and rhyming words in the early years.
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Alphabetize the Aquarium Activity
A set of 4 mats for students to practice alphabetizing.
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Cursive Alphabet Chart - Printable Cursive Practice Sheets
A set of 6 sheets to practice writing letters in cursive.
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Book Character Profile - Stage and Curtains
A fun character profile worksheet set on a theater stage.
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Cursive Practice - Sentences
A set of 6 sheets to practice writing sentences in cursive.
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Sight Word BINGO (Fry Word List 101-200)
Practice learning sight words 101-200 on the Fry Sight Word List with our set of 22 Sight Words Bingo cards.
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Short Vowels or BUST! Card Game
This phonological awareness activity awards points for correctly identifying the words with short vowel sounds.
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It's Time to Rhyme! - Practice Worksheet
Practice identifying and producing rhyming sets with this independent or partner worksheet.
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Character Traits Graphic Organizer
Describe the most notable mental and moral qualities of a real or fictional person.
- Reading Worksheets
- Reading Games
- Reading Templates
- Reading Posters
- Reading Flashcards
- Reading Word Walls
- Reading for Pre-K
- Reading for Kindergarten
- Reading for 1st Grade
- Reading for 2nd Grade
- Reading for 3rd Grade
- Reading for 4th Grade
- Reading for 5th Grade
- Reading for 6th Grade
- Reading for 7th Grade