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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Sound Wall Classroom Interactive Bulletin Board
Print a complete Sound Wall designed to help you enhance your phonics program by displaying the phonemes your students are currently mastering.
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Dolch Sight Word Tracker - Google Sheets
Track mastery of Dolch Sight Words using a digital Google Sheets Sight Word tracking spreadsheet
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List of Word Play Examples
Download this list of word play examples to help your students recognize, interpret and use creative language techniques when reading and writing.
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Jellyfishing for Sight Words - Kindergarten Sight Word Game
Go jellyfishing for Kindergarten Dolch words with an interactive Google Slides game!
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List of Sound Devices
Download this list of sound devices in poetry to help students recognize, understand and confidently use sound techniques that bring poems to life.
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List of Figurative Language
Download this list of figurative language to help your students recognize, interpret and use figurative language when reading and writing.
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Compare and Contrast Stories – Literature Project
Get your students to compare and contrast stories with this structured literary analysis project, where students identify similarities and differences between two texts based on similar themes.
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Spot the Extra Information Worksheets
Build visual comprehension skills with this engaging Spot the Extra Information Worksheet Pack.
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Letter, Word or Sentence Activity Pack
Support young learners as they develop foundational literacy skills with this simple, hands‑on Letter, Word or Sentence Activity Pack.
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Audience Swap Challenge Game
Help students understand why authors write and who they write for with this fun, interactive Audience Swap Challenge Game.
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Prefixes and Suffixes Four in a Row Game
Practice making words using prefixes and suffixes with this fun Prefixes and Suffixes Game - Printable Four in a Row game.
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Suffixes Interactive Activity
Explore suffixes with this fun and engaging suffix digital activity ready to use in the classroom.
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Prefixes Interactive Activity
Use this Prefix digital activity in your classroom to support your students as they explore how prefixes change word meaning.
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Emotion Match Passages Worksheet Pack
Help your students strengthen emotional vocabulary and early inferencing skills with this engaging set of Feeling Inferencing passages.
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Haiku Poem Resource Pack
Explore nine nature‑themed poems, including Sun Haiku, Cloud Haiku, Tree Haiku and more, with this Haiku Resource Pack.
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Reading 3-5 Phonemes Cut and Paste Pack
Support your early readers as they practice decoding and phoneme recognition with this hands-on cut and paste worksheet set.
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Phoneme Manipulation Word Ladders
Support your Grade 2 students as they build phonemic awareness and practice manipulating sounds with this engaging set of Word Ladders.
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Seasonal Settings Descriptive Writing Task
Use this Seasonal Settings Descriptive Writing Worksheet Pack to help students strengthen their descriptive writing skills by exploring how different seasons influence the setting of a story.
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Comparing Characters Activity Pack
Use this Comparing Characters Activity Pack to help students strengthen their reading comprehension by analyzing how characters act, feel, and speak within a story.
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Story vs Opinion Digital Detective Activity
Use this Story vs Opinion Digital Detective Activity to help students build essential comprehension skills as they learn to identify whether a text is telling a story or sharing an opinion.
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Making Connections with Literacy Texts Pack
Use this Making Connections to Literary Texts Pack to help students deepen their comprehension by linking stories to their own experiences, other texts, and the world around them.
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Making Text Connections PowerPoint - 1st Grade
Help your students become stronger, more thoughtful readers with this Making Text Connections PowerPoint.
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Classroom Alphabet Poster Pack
Create your own classroom alphabet line with these ink-friendly classroom alphabet posters.
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Text Purpose Maze Worksheet Set
Use these Text Purpose Mazes to guide students through fun, color‑coded pathways where they read short text titles and decide whether each one aims to inform, to entertain, or to persuade.
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Making Art and Craft – Procedure Writing Project
Get your students to create a high-quality procedural text that teaches others how to make an art or craft creation using this fully scaffolded writing project booklet.
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Navigating Natural Disasters Worksheets
Explore natural disasters, their effects, and how humans manage them with a pack of Navigating Natural Disasters Worksheets.
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Sophia the Superdog - Comprehension Text and Questions
A superdog themed text and set of questions to help develop comprehension strategies in the classroom.
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Imaginative vs Informative PowerPoint
Build strong comprehension skills with this engaging Imaginative vs Informative Texts PowerPoint.
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Story vs Opinion Cut and Sort Pack
Help students understand the difference between a story sentence and an opinion sentence with this cut and paste worksheet set.
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Imaginative vs Informative Book Bins Digital Activity
Use this imaginative vs informative book bins digital activity to help students explore the difference between these types of texts.
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Expository Text Examples and Analysis Worksheets
Use these expository text examples with accompanying analysis worksheets to teach your students about the purpose, structure and language features of expository writing.
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Reading Goals Tracking Display
Encourage students to track and celebrate achievement with a Reading Goals Bulletin Board.
- 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