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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Healthy Body, Healthy Mind: Find Your Sport – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a comic about the importance of physical activity to a healthy lifestyle.
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Spelling Task Cards
A set of 57 spelling task cards.
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Homophones Crossword Puzzle
Challenge your students to complete this vocabulary crossword puzzle by completing the sentences with the correct homophone.
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Inferring Written Scenario Task Cards
Task cards that help students use their knowledge and ideas to help them decode ideas in texts
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Elements of Poetry Worksheet - Idioms
A worksheet to help students understand idioms in poetry.
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Readers' Theatre Script - Mighty Maree
A script which can be used during readers' theatre or Drama sessions, aimed at students 10 years and over.
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Three Little Pigs – Sequencing Worksheet
Identify the story beginning, series of events and ending with this narrative text sequencing activity.
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Inference Real Estate Advertisements - Worksheet
A series of real estate advertisement worksheets to use when teaching your students how to infer information from written texts.
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The Egyptian Pyramids - Comprehension Task
A 2 page comprehension task for students to use in the classroom when learning about the Egyptian pyramids.
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Beginning Sounds Worksheets
Use these beginning sounds worksheets to explore each letter of the alphabet and their matching phoneme by searching and finding images.
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Onset and Rime Phonics Search Pack
Practise searching for and decoding onset and rime words with this set of search and find worksheets.
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Australian Conservationists: Tim Flannery – Comprehension Worksheet
Learn about Tim Flannery and his conservation work with this 2-page reading passage and accompanying comprehension questions.
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Reading Is Magic! Book Review Brochure Template
Download this book review brochure template based on the 2024 Book Week theme, “Reading Is Magic”.
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Compound Word Games for Partners
Boost vocabulary skills and help your students learn to read and write compound words with engaging Compound Word Partner Games!
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Summarising Fiction Poster Set
Help students remember what to include in a summary of a fiction text with this easy to use SWBST acronym.
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Colour-Coding Summarising Fiction Text Worksheets
Practise summarising small fiction texts with this fun colour-coding set of worksheets.
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Consonant Digraph Cut-and-Paste Worksheets
Reinforce your students' knowledge of digraphs with this set of cut-and-paste worksheets.
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Year 6 Magazine - What's Buzzing? (Issue 1)
A beautifully designed, 26-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 6 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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Synonyms and Antonyms Practise - Worksheets
Boost vocabulary skills with daily review worksheets on synonyms and antonyms.
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Amazon Rainforest Facts - Reading Passage
Read and learn about conservation with a reading passage and comprehension worksheet on the Amazon Rainforest.
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Malala Yousafzai Biography – Read and Respond Worksheet
A comprehension activity related to a biographical text.
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Interpreting Figurative Language - Worksheets
Explore figurative language in poetry with this age-appropriate poem and accompanying vocabulary questions.
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Long U Words - Word Search
Explore words containing some of the most common ‘long u’ graphemes with this set of differentiated word searches.
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Level 2 Decodable Readers - Worksheet Pack
A set of one-pager worksheet versions of the texts from our Level 2 decodable readers.
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Phoneme Segmentation Worksheets - CVCC/CCVC Words
Use this worksheet pack to give students practice at segmenting words into phonemes.
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Colour by Sight Words - 4 Words - Cat
A fun colouring activity to use when working with sight words.
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Colour by Sight Words - 7 Words - Monkey
A fun colouring activity to use when working with sight words.
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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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Using Context Clues – Worksheet
A worksheet to practise using context clues when reading.
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Library Scavenger Hunt – Upper Primary
Explore the school library with a scavenger hunt!
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Novel Study – Chapter Summary Worksheet
Reflect on a chapter in a class novel using this one-page worksheet.
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