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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Advertisement Worksheet – K-9ine the Robot Dog
A comprehension worksheet for a persuasive magazine advertisement about a robotic dog.
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Year 5 Daily Warm-Up – PowerPoint 3
A 93-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of quick warm-up activities.
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Narrative Setting Circularama Templates
A set of circular diorama templates that combine to create three scenes.
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Colour by Parts of Speech Worksheet – Chameleon
Practise your parts of speech lesson by colouring nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions and pronouns on the chameleon.
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Grammar and Punctuation Assessment Tool - Year 6
A set of 5 grammar and punctuation assessment tools suited to Year 6 students.
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Year 4 Daily Warm-Up – PowerPoint 4
A 73-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of quick warm-up activities.
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Year 5 Daily Warm-Up – PowerPoint 4
A 92-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of quick warm-up activities.
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Narrative Setting Prompts Posters
A set of 2 posters giving ideas for the setting of a narrative.
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Year 2 Dictation Passages PowerPoint
Use this set of Year 2 dictation passages to promote listening and transcription skills in your students.
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Everyday Grammar Sentence Structure Warm Ups - Upper Years Interactive PowerPoint
An engaging 44 slide interactive PowerPoint to use in the upper years classroom when learning about grammar and sentence structure.
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Story Boarding Template
A template for use when constructing story boards.
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Procedural Writing Checklists
Use these procedural writing checklists when teaching your students how to editing their procedure texts.
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Poetry Poster with Annotations
Use this poetry poster to introduce your students to the structure and language features of poems through an annotated example.
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Fiction or Non-Fiction? Cut and Paste Worksheet
Use this fiction and non-fiction worksheet when teaching your students about the differences between fiction and non-fiction texts.
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Simple Informative Texts - Writing Scaffold
A simple scaffolding worksheet to use when writing informative texts.
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Figurative Language Poster Pack
Remind your students about the most common types of figurative language with this set of classroom display posters.
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The Park - Comprehension
A comprehension activity using poetry.
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Persuasive Speech Writing Task
Practise writing a persuasive text with this speech writing task.
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Readers' Theatre - Scripts Tracker
A document listing all of Teach Starter's scripts for Readers' Theatre.
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Comprehension - Tia's Tantrum
A comprehension activity using a narrative text.
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Introduction to Narrative Features PowerPoint - Year 3 and Year 4
A 23 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching your students about the features of narrative texts.
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Handwriting Posters - Dirt, Grass and Sky Background With Arrows
Handwriting posters using a dirt, grass and sky background with arrows.
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Middle Years Morning Work PowerPoint
An engaging 77 slide PowerPoint to use in the classroom for independent morning work.
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"How To" Procedural Writing Prompt Worksheets
Help your little learners write a procedural text using these handy "How to" writing prompt worksheets.
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Pronouns Teaching Slides
Use this pronouns PowerPoint presentation to teach your students about some of the most common types of pronouns.
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Blending 3-Phoneme Words Puzzles
Help students master blending phonemes with this set of 3-phoneme blending puzzles.
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Colour by Letter Worksheet Pack (SATPIN)
Help students with their recognition of the letters – s,a,t,p,i,n with this colour by letter worksheet pack.
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Letter Confusion Worksheets
Help students who are struggling with letter confusion with this set of 10 letter confusion worksheets.
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Informative Paragraph Topic Sentence Starters - Interactive Slides
Build your students’ writing skills with a set of digital informative paragraph writing prompts.
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Natural Disasters Report – Mini Book Template
Download this natural disasters information report template to use when teaching informative writing to primary students.
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Fix the Sentence - Quotation Marks Practise Activity
Provide perfect punctuation practise with an engaging ‘Fix the Sentence’ Quotation Marks digital learning activity.
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Present and Past Tense Irregular Verbs Matchup Cards
A set of 30 match-up cards to help students learn about simple present tense and simple past tense of irregular verbs.
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