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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Comprehension - Three Billy Goats Gruff
A fun script and set of questions to help students develop reading and comprehension strategies.
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Recognise Cause and Effect Poster
A poster highlighting how to recognise cause and effect when reading a piece of text.
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Identify Author's Purpose Poster
A poster highlighting how to identify the author's purpose when reading a piece of text.
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Plate Tectonics Cloze Activity
A cloze activity to use when learning about the layers of the Earth and plate tectonics.
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Cause and Effect Matching Cards
A set of 24 cards that can be used to help consolidate students' knowledge of causes and effects.
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What are Bushfires? Cloze Worksheet
A cloze worksheet about bushfires.
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Letter Sound Recognition Activity Task Cards
Explore letter sound recognition knowledge with your students using this set of letter sound activity cards.
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Blending CVC Word Activity
Use this Blending CVC Word Activity with your students to get them practising blending simple CVC words.
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Fact and Opinion Sorting Activity
Use this fact and opinion sort to teach your students the difference between statements of fact and statements of opinion.
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Blending Words Slides and Ladders Game
Play slides and ladders with your students and get them practising blending CVC words with this fun and engaging game board.
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CVC Blending Word Car Mats
Get students excited about blending simple CVC words with these engaging car-themed blending road mats!
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CVC Word Blending Slide Activity
Engage students in a fun blending activity to encourage students to ‘slide’ their phonemes together with this phoneme blending mat.
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Blending 4-Phoneme Words Puzzles
Help students master blending phonemes with this set of 4-phoneme blending puzzles.
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Blending Phonemes CVC Word BINGO
Practise blending phonemes to form one-syllable words with this set of 20 bingo game boards and cards.
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All About Paraphrasing Teaching Slides
Explain ‘writing in your own words’ to your students with an engaging, interactive Paraphrasing Slide Deck.
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Betty Botter – Tongue Twister Poster
Use this “Betty Botter” tongue twister poster to teach your youngest students about word play and alliteration.
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Onset and Rime Mini Flipbooks
Practise reading onset and rime words with this interactive mini flipbook.
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Australian Conservationists: John Walmsley – Comprehension Worksheet
Learn about Dr John Walmsley and his conservation work with this 2-page reading passage and accompanying comprehension questions.
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Antonyms are Opposite Words - Cut and Paste Worksheets
Build vocabulary skills with a cut-and-paste opposite words worksheets
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Roll and Read – Sight Word Game Pack
Practise reading sight words with this set of 5 Roll to Read Sight Word Game boards.
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Daily Vocabulary Dive - Compound Word Spiral Review
Give your students a daily dose of compound word review with a 5-day vocabulary warm-up worksheet.
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Writing with Compound Words Worksheet Pack
Practise using compound words in context with a pack of printable Writing With Compound Words Worksheets.
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Combining Words - Compound Nouns Worksheet
Combine word parts to build compound nouns with a printable compound word worksheet.
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Compound Words Teaching Slides
Teach your students to identify, combine, and read compound words with an interactive Compound Words teaching presentation.
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Story Retell Brochure Template
Explore retelling a story with this brochure template covering the major elements of a retell.
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Foldable Inferencing Template
Practise making inferences with this foldable template.
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Label the Non-Fiction Text Features Worksheets
Have your students label text features in non-fiction texts with this set of three differentiation text features worksheets.
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Diphthong Colouring Activity Worksheets
Practise finding different vowel team diphthongs with this set of fun colour-by-code worksheets for your students.
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Informational Text Features Cheat Sheet
Download this list of text feature examples to teach your students about the purpose of these important textual elements.
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Nonfiction Text Features Worksheet
Download this nonfiction text features worksheet so students can practice locating different types of text features found in an information text.
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Story Retell Graphic Organisers (Differentiated)
Help students confidently retell a story with this set of differentiated graphic organisers.
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Word Study Lists – Homophones
Introduce your students to the most common homophones with these two sets of comprehensive word lists.
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