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!
- Plus Plan

Google Interactive R-Blends Activity
Decode and spell r-blend words with phonemes gr, tr, br, cr, dr, pr, and fr.
- Plus Plan

Westward Expansion Reading Comprehension Worksheet
Build reading comprehension skills with a Westward Expansion reading passage and assessment.
- Plus Plan

George Washington Printable Book
Read and learn about the father of our country, George Washington, with a printable reader and activity book.
- Plus Plan

Thomas Jefferson Printable Mini-Book
Read and learn about Thomas Jefferson with a printable informational reader and activity booklet.
- Plus Plan

Greek and Latin Roots Anchor Chart Pack
Encourage vocabulary development with a set of 24 Greek and Latin Roots anchor charts.
- Plus Plan

Soccer vs. Football -Differentiated Paired Passage Worksheets
Differentiate reading instruction with nonfiction texts, compare and contrast activities, and response to text writing opportunities.
- Plus Plan

Google Interactive R-Blends Sort and Write Activity
Bring technology into your guided reading lessons, and achieve mastery of r-blend words with a fun, pirate-themed learning activity.
- Plus Plan

Reading Comprehension Worksheets-King Midas and the Golden Touch Google Interactive and Printable Resources
Review and practice multiple reading skills using the text “King Midas and the Golden Touch” with these digital and print resources.
- Plus Plan

Google Interactive Sight Words - 1st Grade Dolch Word Slideshow
Read, write, identify, and build all 41 Dolch first-grade sight words in an interactive Google Slides presentation.
- Plus Plan

Blends and Digraphs Clip Card Reading Center
Practice identifying digraphs and blends in word through interactive Google slides and traditional PDF printable formats.
- Plus Plan

Interactive Word Building Sorting Activity-CVC Words
Practice spelling 18 CVC words using images and letter tiles as clues.
- Plus Plan

I Have a Dream - Speech Analysis Activity
Review MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech text and explore the metaphors he used to convey his message through the accompanying questions.
- Plus Plan

Sight Word Hunt — 2nd Grade Dolch Words List Activity
Practice reading 2nd-grade level sight words from the Dolch high-frequency words list with this activity.
- Plus Plan

Match or TRASH! - R Blends Card Game
Practice decoding and reading 15 initial R blend words with our matching card game.
- Plus Plan

First Grade Dolch Words - I Have, Who Has? Game
Practice listening to and reading high-frequency words with this set of 42 “I Have, Who Has?” 1st Grade Dolch sight word game cards.
- Plus Plan

Which Word? CVC Decoding Worksheets
A set of 5 worksheets for students to practice segmenting and blending common CVC words.
- Plus Plan

Write a Short Story – The Tale of Transformation
Get your students analyzing and writing a story with a lesson with this engaging and fully scaffolded writing project booklet.
- Plus Plan

Alphabetical Order Card Sort - Set 1
A set of word cards to practice putting words in alphabetical order.
- Plus Plan

Idioms: What Are They and What Do They Mean? PowerPoint
An editable PowerPoint presentation to use when teaching idioms.
- Plus Plan

Identifying Idioms and Their Meanings - Worksheet
A worksheet to practice identifying idioms and their meaning.
- Free Plan

Curiosity and Imagination Bookmarks
Spark a love of reading in your students with this set of 4 printable bookmarks.
- Free Plan

Color by Sight Words - 5 Words - Bee
A fun coloring activity to use when working with sight words.
- Plus Plan

Color by Sight Words - 7 Words - Monkey
A fun coloring activity to use when working with sight words.
- Free Plan

S.W.B.S.T. Summarizing Graphic Organizer
Use this printable SWBST strategy graphic organizer with students to write a summary for a fictional piece of text.
- Plus Plan

What's Your Claim? Worksheet
Identify elements of an argumentative essay and write original claim sentences to support individual reasoning.
- Plus Plan

Grade 2 Magazine - "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 1) Task Cards
Five sets of literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with issue 1 of Teach Starter's Grade 2 magazine.
- Plus Plan

Text Structures Slide Deck
An editable text structure instructional slide deck to use when teaching text structures to your students.
- Free Plan

Back to School Today! Poem for Kids
Ease back-to-school jitters and launch your students into a love of poetry with a short poem for kids written just for the first day of school!
- Plus Plan

Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - WANT
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “want” from the Kindergarten-level Dolch sight words list.
- Plus Plan

Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - ALL
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “all” from the Kindergarten-level Dolch sight words list.
- Plus Plan

Writing With Alliteration Worksheet
Identify and create alliteration patterns in texts.
- Plus Plan

What's the Theme? - Graphic Organizer
Outline and determine the theme of a text with this 1-page graphic organizer worksheet.
- 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