English Teaching Resources
English teachers, your printable worksheets, games, activities and more for building students' literacy skills are here, and they're all Australian Curriculum! Created by primary teachers for primary teachers like you, this teaching resource collection is full of reading and writing printables and digital activities to provide students with a strong foundation in English.
The expert teachers on the Teach Starter team have created each English worksheet, phonics game and hands-on activity to save primary teachers time on their lesson plans so they can spend more time making those 'aha' moments happen in the classroom.
Each PowerPoint presentation, worksheet and more has undergone 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!
Australian English Curriculum Aligned Activities for Every Year Level
What does the English Curriculum cover for each year level? We're so glad you asked!
Whether you're teaching English in year 1 or year 6 (or any year level in between), Teach Starter has the curriculum covered. Take a look at what's in store for your lesson plans and your classroom.
Foundation (Prep)
In Foundation resources from Teach Starter, students are introduced to foundational language and literacy skills. This year's curriculum is crucial as it provides a solid foundation for students' literacy development in the following years.
Teach Starter's resources will help you teach your foundation or prep students to recognise and produce sounds, letters and words and develop basic reading and writing skills.
Worksheets and games in this curriculum-aligned collection cover the purposes of different texts and engage in shared reading and storytelling activities to help your prep students get hooked on reading!
Year 1
Year 1 English builds upon the foundational skills developed in Foundation. Students continue to refine their reading and writing abilities, focusing on phonics, decoding, and fluency. They begin to read simple texts independently and develop their vocabulary and comprehension skills.
In writing, year 1 students learn to construct simple sentences, use capital letters and full stops, and express ideas through words and illustrations. This year's curriculum is important as it establishes fundamental reading and writing skills, enabling students to become more confident readers and writers.
Year 2
In Year 2, students expand their reading and writing skills, and the worksheets in this collection will allow you to explore a range of texts with your students, including fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
Work with your class to develop comprehension strategies to understand and interpret texts more deeply and learn about different text structures and begin to write more complex sentences and paragraphs.
Additionally, you'll find literacy resources designed to teach your year 2 class about grammar, punctuation and spelling rules, strengthening students' literacy skills and building their ability to express ideas more effectively.
Year 3
Year 3 English curriculum resources focus on developing students' reading, writing, speaking and listening skills across various text types and genres.
Explore resources to help students learn to analyse and evaluate texts, make predictions and infer meaning in their reading.
Develop your students' understanding of narrative and descriptive writing, as well as persuasive and informative writing.
Our spelling and grammar resources will help students learn about plurals, verb tenses and punctuation marks and expand their vocabulary.
Our curriculum-aligned options for year 3 emphasise critical thinking and communication skills, encouraging students to become more independent and thoughtful readers and writers.
Year 4
Teach Starter's year 4 reading and writing resources help students further refine their reading and writing abilities.
They explore a broader range of texts — including literature, digital media and visual texts — and work on analysing and evaluating texts, identifying the author's purpose and drawing conclusions.
Explore worksheets and more to help your students develop their narrative, persuasive, informative and descriptive writing skills, focusing on organisation, cohesion and language features. You'll also find support for your lesson plans to deepen their understanding of grammar, vocabulary and spelling patterns.
Year 4 encourages students to become more proficient in analysing and creating texts, fostering their creativity and critical thinking skills, and this collection has you covered!
Year 5
The Australian English curriculum in year 5 emphasises higher-level comprehension and composition skills, and Teach Starter's year 5 reading resources allow students to engage with more complex texts, including novels, plays and multimodal texts.
Students can analyse themes, viewpoints and literary techniques in their reading.
Our year 5 writing resources allow students to plan, draft, revise and edit their work, incorporating various text structures and literary devices. The resources also help students expand their vocabulary, grammar and spelling knowledge.
Year 6
In the final year of primary school, Year 6 students consolidate their language skills in preparation for secondary school.
Teach Starter's year 6 reading and writing resources will help your students engage with various texts — including those that present different perspectives and challenge ideas.
Build advanced comprehension strategies — such as inference, synthesis and evaluation — and refine their writing skills by exploring different genres, styles and voices. Grammar, vocabulary and spelling are all covered with various options available.
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Ck Digraph Lesson Resource Pack
Introduce students to the ck digraph with this set of teaching slides and mini activity book.
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Vowel Digraphs Worksheet Pack
Practise writing and enhancing knowledge of vowel digraphs with this worksheet pack.
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Adjective or Adverb? Task Cards
Use this set of 24 task cards to help students understand where an adverb or an adjective is the correct modifier in a sentence.
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Empathy vs. Sympathy Reading Comprehension Worksheet
Challenge your students to learn the differences between empathy and sympathy with this reading comprehension worksheet.
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Defining Homophones Matching Game
Help your students become familiar with the meanings and spellings of common homophones with this set of 36 differentiated matching cards.
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Year 4 Magazine - What's Buzzing? (Issue 1)
A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 4 students.
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Year 3 Magazine – What's Buzzing? (Issue 3)
Issue 3 of our beautifully designed, 22-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 3 students.
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Reading Comprehension Worksheets - The History of Electricity
Read to learn about the history of electricity with printable reading comprehension worksheets.
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Book Review Bunting - Template
Share your students' favourite books during Book Week with a printable book review template in the shape of bunting.
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Frog Hop Suffixes - Interactive Grammar Review
Review knowledge of suffixes with an exciting frog-themed Google Slides Interactive review activity.
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Un- and Dis- Prefixes Worksheet
Build vocabulary skills with a prefix worksheet featuring the prefixes Un- and Dis-.
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Onomatopoeia Examples - Word Wall Display
Display a fun onomatopoeia word wall in your classroom with printable cards containing 45 onomatopoeia examples.
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Humpty Dumpty Off the Wall – Comprehension Worksheet
Integrate nursery rhymes and early reading comprehension skills with a Humpty Dumpty reading passage and comprehension questions.
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What is an Affix? Suffix Puzzle Pack
Practice building, reading, and understanding the meaning of words with suffixes with a fun set of printable puzzles for kids.
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Formation of Earth - Reading Comprehension Worksheet
Combine reading and science content with a reading comprehension worksheet that focuses on the formation of Earth.
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Similes Poster (Early Years)
Show your students an example of a simile using this colourful classroom display poster.
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Level 1 Decodable Readers - Worksheet Pack
A set of one-pager worksheet versions of the texts from our Level 1 decodable readers.
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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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Story Basics: Narrative Features - Teaching Presentation
Use this interactive teaching presentation to introduce your early years students to the basic features of stories.
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Persuasive Writing Bump It Up Wall – Year 5
A visual display for your classroom to help students 'bump up' their persuasive writing.
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Matching Direct and Indirect Speech
Investigate the differences between direct and indirect speech with this match-up activity.
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My Dog Max – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a narrative from the Foundation magazine (Issue 1).
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Reading Response Summarising – Template
A comprehension template for students to practise summarising.
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Year 4 Daily Warm-Up – PowerPoint 2
A 79-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of quick warm-up activities.
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Persuasive Writing Bump It Up Wall – Year 2
A visual display for your classroom to help students ‘bump up’ their persuasive writing.
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Angry Outbursts – Comprehension Worksheet
Explore emotional awareness and healthy calming strategies with this comic-style comprehension passage and accompanying questions.
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How to Make a Milkshake – Procedural Writing Worksheet
Explore how to make a milkshake while your students fine-tune their procedural writing skills.
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Literature Study Task Cards (Upper Primary)
Explore the wonders of children's literature with this set of 14 literature study task cards for upper primary students.
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Disappearing Ice Cream Sundae (Hangman Alternative)
Use this alternative to hangman with your students when practising new vocabulary or wanting to play a fun game to finish a lesson.
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Book Character Profile - Stage and Curtains
A fun book character profile worksheet set on a stage.
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Advertisement Worksheet – Milton Mentor
A comprehension worksheet for a persuasive magazine advertisement about a digital personal assistant.
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Concrete Poem Poster and Templates
Use this concrete poem example and accompanying template to teach your students how to write a concrete poem.
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