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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Identifying Idioms and Their Meanings - Worksheet
A worksheet to practice identifying idioms and their meaning.
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Color by Sight Words - 5 Words - Bee
A fun coloring activity to use when working with sight words.
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Color by Sight Words - 7 Words - Monkey
A fun coloring activity to use when working with sight words.
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Using Words with Prefixes - Worksheet Pack
Practice using the prefixes Un-, Re-, Mis-, Pre-, Dis-, and In- with a pair of printable prefix worksheets.
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What's Your Claim? Worksheet
Identify elements of an argumentative essay and write original claim sentences to support individual reasoning.
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Alphabetical Order Worksheet (Second and Third Letter)
Strengthen alphabetization skills to the third letter with this 2-page worksheet.
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Building Sundaes Game - Vowel Teams (OA, OW, OE, and EY)
Decode words with OA, OW, OE, and EY long vowel teams by crafting cute desserts!
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Building Sundaes Game - Vowel Teams (AI, AY, EE, and EA)
Decode words with ay, ai, ea, and ee long vowel teams by crafting cute desserts!
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Pyramid Reading Cards - Dolch Primer Sight Words
Practice and review the Dolch Primer List of high-frequency words with 52 short phrase cards for emergent readers.
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Wheely Wonderful Words – Overused Adjectives
Banish overused adjectives with a handy adjective-synonym word wheel!
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It's My Time to Rhyme Worksheet
Practice producing rhyming words with this 2-page multi-challenge worksheet.
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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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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - HAVE
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “have” from the Kindergarten-level Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - DO
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “do” from the Kindergarten-level Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - NO
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “no” from the Kindergarten-level Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - HE
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “he” from the Kindergarten-level Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - UNDER
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “under” from the Kindergarten-level Dolch sight words list.
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My Word Builder Folder
A word building folder to develop students’ phonemic awareness.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - WANT
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “want” from the Kindergarten-level Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - WENT
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “went” from the Kindergarten-level Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - WILL
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “will” from the Kindergarten-level Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - WELL
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “well” from the Kindergarten-level Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - WHO
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “who” from the Kindergarten-level Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - What
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “what” from the Kindergarten-level Dolch sight words list.
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Building Sundaes Game - R Blends
Build a sundae to practice decoding words with R consonant blends.
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Poetry Task Cards
A set of 20 task cards to practice different elements of peotry.
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Writing With Alliteration Worksheet
Identify and create alliteration patterns in texts.
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Ending Digraphs Sorting Activity
Practice decoding words by sorting 20 picture cards by their ending digraphs.
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What Does It Really Mean? - Hyperbole Task Cards
Identify and interpret hyperboles used in sentences.
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Grade 3 Magazine - "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 1) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with issue 1 of Teach Starter's Grade 3 magazine.
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Sign Language Alphabet Poster
Display this poster in your classroom as a reminder of how to represent the letters of the alphabet when spelling words in ASL (American Sign Language).
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Let's Rhyme! Worksheet
Match rhyming words and create a list of rhyming words.
- 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