Reading Teaching Resources for Year 1
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What's in My House? – Poster
A vocabulary poster highlighting common household items.
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Food-Themed Syllable Puzzle
A fun food-themed phonics activity for lower years that helps to develop syllable recognition.
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Rhyming Task Cards
A set of 12 task cards to practice rhyming.
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Word Family Sorting Activity – Set 4
A sorting activity to practice word families.
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Word Family Sorting Activity – Set 3
A sorting activity using word families.
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'Fly into a New Year' Bookmark
A bookmark to give your students at the start of the new year.
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Word Family Sorting Activity – Set 2
A word family sorting activity.
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Blend and Digraph Cards
A set of 32 blend and digraph cards that can be used in a variety of ways.
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Letter Match-Up Cards
A set of upper and lowercase letter cards.
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I Wish I Could – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a comic from the Year 2 magazine (Issue 3).
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Differentiating Long and Short Vowels Interactive PowerPoint
An interactive quiz to practise differentiating between long and short vowel sounds in words.
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Practise, Practise, Practise (Tying Your Shoelaces) – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a comic from the Year 1 magazine (Issue 2).
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5 Fascinating Facts About Dinosaurs – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a fascinating facts article from the Year 1 magazine (Issue 2).
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Art Attack! Shape – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a magazine article from the Year 2 magazine (Issue 3).
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Splat! Active Game
An active game that allows students to test and build their vocabulary knowledge.
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Musical Blending Active Game
An active game that allows students to practise using blends and digraphs.
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Hopping Through Hoops Active Game
An active game that allows students to review vocabulary words for any content area.
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Phoneme Spotter Story – 'oo' Sound
A decodable text featuring various graphemes that make the ‘oo’ sound.
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I Know That Word! Match-Up Activity
A vocabulary/labelling activity for younger students.
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Fry Sight Words Flash Cards
A set of flash cards for the first 100 Fry Sight Words.
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Reading Is My Secret Power Because... – Writing Template
Write about the secret power of reading with this superhero-inspired writing template.
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Alphabet Slap
A fun game for letter, consonant, and vowel recognition.
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Word Walk Active Game
An active game that allows students to practise reading sight words.
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Team Trials: Success Celebrators – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a comic about the importance of good sportsmanship and celebrating the success of others.
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Read Along Pocket Chart Cards – Dr. Mae Jemison
A set of pocket chart cards to use for reading and sight word practice.
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BUMP! Blending 's' – Board Game
A board game to practise decoding words with an initial s blend.
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My Reading Favourites - Mini-Book
Create a mini-book filled with your students' favourite things about reading.
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My Word Builder Folder
An individual word building folder to develop and consolidate students’ phonemic awareness.
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Year 1 Magazine – "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 3) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 3 of Teach Starter’s Year 1 magazine.
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Move It! - Long and Short Vowel 'u' PowerPoint Game
An active PowerPoint game to practise reading and identifying long and short vowel ‘u’ words.
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Human Histories: Helpful Heroes – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for an article about people around the world who have dedicated their lives to helping others.
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Looking For a Book? – Suggestions Jar
A suggestions jar to help your students choose an appropriate book.