Reading Teaching Resources
Make teaching reading simple with printable worksheets, digital games, activities and so much more right at your fingertips. This teaching resource collection was created by primary teachers for primary teachers like you, and each literacy resource is aligned with the Australian curriculum!
Teaching students how to read opens up their world, and our teaching team knows the task ahead of you is challenging but rewarding. That's why we've designed our printables and digital activities to provide students with a strong foundation in English, creating the basis of lesson plans rooted in best practice and the science of reading.
Best of all, each resource has been through our careful review process to ensure it’s ready for your lesson plan and your students. This collection even includes customisable resources and activities that have already been differentiated for you!
Literacy Activities for Every Year Level
With games and activities for students from early years classrooms to upper years in this collection, here's just a taste of what is covered in the curriculum-aligned resources you'll find as you explore!
Foundation (Prep)
Foundation teachers can use Teach Starter's extensive literacy resources to focus on students' development of foundational reading skills.
We supply the basis for recognising and naming letters, identifying sounds associated with letters (phonics) and blending sounds to read simple words. Explore activities that promote oral language development, vocabulary expansion and phonemic awareness, as well as resources designed to foster a love for reading, build basic decoding skills and develop comprehension through discussions and shared reading experiences.
Year 1
Teaching year 1? You'll find resources designed to teach students how to apply their knowledge of letter-sound relationships to read and spell words with more complex phonics patterns.
Literacy resources for this year level offer a basis for you to work on fluency in reading by using appropriate phrasing, expression and intonation and introduce your class to various texts — including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry — to build comprehension skills.
Year 2
Year 2 reading activities and games are designed to help students expand their reading skills by developing a larger sight word vocabulary and refining their decoding skills.
Our lesson plans help students recognise and use more advanced phonics patterns — including vowel digraphs and trigraphs. You'll also find resources created by our teacher team to deepen students' comprehension skills, such as making predictions, summarising and making connections to the text.
Year 3
In the year students are expected to sit their first NAPLAN tests to assess their literacy skills, students further develop their reading skills by focusing on more complex texts and strategies.
Our literacy resources are here to provide you support as your students learn to read and understand a wide range of fiction and nonfiction texts, including chapter books and informational texts with specialised vocabulary! Worksheets and reading passages offer students a chance to practise inferring, analysing characters and settings and identifying main ideas and supporting details.
Year 4
Excited to see your year 4 students refine their reading skills by developing greater independence and comprehension? We are too!
With our reading passages and literacy activities, students are given the chance to analyse the author's purpose, evaluate different perspectives and make connections across texts. Our vocabulary resources expose kids to a wide range of words so they can use context clues to determine word meanings.
Year 5
In Year 5, students once again have their literacy skills assessed by NAPLAN, and they continue to build on their reading skills by exploring a variety of texts and genres.
Teach Starter resources for this year help you build your lesson plans around complex language structures and figurative language, as well as providing students with the means to practise evaluating arguments, drawing conclusions and identifying bias and propaganda.
As you engage students in discussions about texts, our reading activities offer students a chance to express their opinions and support their ideas with evidence from the text.
Year 6
As your year 6 students consolidate and extend their reading skills in preparation for secondary school, you'll find a range of texts to support your lesson plans, including poetry, drama, and media texts.
Explore resources designed to give students practise analysing literary techniques, understanding symbolism and interpreting implicit and explicit meanings.
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Penguin Adaptations - Year 3 Reading Comprehension
Explore the fascinating world of penguins and their adaptations with our set of printable Year 3 Reading Comprehension worksheets.
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All About Me! - Simile Poem Poster and Template
Get to know your students and explore poetry at the same time with this simile poem scaffolding template.
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Fact or Opinion? - Digital Learning Activity
Practise identifying, sorting, and writing facts and opinions with an interactive digital learning activity.
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Inflectional Endings - Spelling with Suffixes Worksheets
Spell words with the inflectional endings -ed, -ing, -s, -es and -ies with a pack of printable practise worksheets covering inflected endings.
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Readers' Theatre Script - What's My Pet?
A script which can be used during readers' theatre or Drama sessions, aimed at students 6 years and over.
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Note-Taking Practice Worksheets
Use this set of note-taking practice worksheets to help your students identify key facts, details and vocabulary when researching information.
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Elements of Poetry Workbook
Explore the wonders of poetry with this set of poems and accompanying worksheets designed specifically for children.
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Elements of Poetry PowerPoint - Year 5 and Year 6
A 25 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when introducing students to the elements of poetry.
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Readers' Theatre Script - Treasure Map
A script which can be used during readers' theatre or Drama sessions, aimed at students 8 years and over.
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My Alphabet Book - Printable Alphabet Worksheets
An alphabet booklet to use in the classroom when learning letter recognition.
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Prefixes and Suffixes PowerPoint
Learn prefix and suffix concepts with an interactive teaching presentation.
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Spelling CVCC Words - Worksheets
Develop students’ ability to segment and blend the sounds in CVCC words with this set of differentiated worksheets.
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Said is Dead List - Dialogue Tags
Help your students choose a variety of dialogue tags when writing with a fun ‘Said is Dead’ Dialogue Tag List.
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Paired Passage Worksheets - Thunderstorms
Use paired passages to help your student practise applying reading comprehension strategies.
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Year 6 Reading Fluency Passages
Assess student fluency with a printable pack of reading fluency passages for Year 6.
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What Is Climate Change? Comprehension Worksheet
Teach your students about the perils of climate change with this comprehensive article with accompanying comprehension questions.
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Character Traits, Feelings and Appearance - Posters
A set of 3 posters depicting words and phrases that can be used to describe a character's personality, feelings and appearance.
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Finding Phonemes - Spelling Words with DGE, GE, J, and G Interactive
Read and spell words using the j, g, ge, and dge phonemes with an interactive digital learning activity for 2nd Grade.
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Giant Squid Reading Comprehension Worksheets - Year 5
Read and learn about the features and adaptations of the giant squid with reading comprehension worksheets for years 5 and 6.
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Story Retelling Strips
Explore a story with your students with this story-retelling cut-and-paste worksheet.
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Readers' Theatre Script - Hansel and Gretel
A script which can be used during readers' theatre or Drama sessions, aimed at students 6 years and over.
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Introduction to Readers' Theatre PowerPoint
An 11 slide PowerPoint template to use when introducing Readers' Theatre to your students.
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Compound Words - Word Search Pack
Search, find, and spell compound words with a fun set of Compound Word Word Search Puzzles!
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Inference Detectives Worksheet Pack
Guide your students to use personal experiences and text evidence to make inferences with this set of reading worksheets.
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Greek and Latin Roots Worksheet Set
Practise using vocabulary containing Greek roots and Latin roots with these weekly root word worksheets.
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Phoneme Segmentation Worksheets - CVC Words
Use this worksheet pack to give students practice at segmenting words into phonemes.
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Readers' Theatre Script - Three Billy Goats Gruff
A script which can be used during readers' theatre or Drama sessions, aimed at students 6 years and over.
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Reading Is Magic! Worksheet Pack
Use this pack of worksheets based on the 2024 Book Week theme, “Reading Is Magic”, to explore the wonders of books and reading with your students.
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Magic-Themed Book Review Template
Create a display of student book reviews during Book Week 2024 with this magic-themed book review template for lower years students.
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Earth Watch: Protecting Native Plants and Animals – Comprehension Worksheet
Build comprehension skills and learn about human impact on ecosystems with a reading passage and worksheets.
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Digraph Handwriting - Worksheets
24 digraph worksheets that focus on handwriting and vocabulary activities.
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Components of Poetry PowerPoint
An editable PowerPoint to use when teaching the essential components of poetry.