Reading Teaching Resources
Open up a world of reading to your students with thousands of printable reading worksheets, center activities, anchor charts, Google Slides templates and thousands more teacher-created resources.
Are you teaching foundational language skills to primary students who are in the early stages of literacy? Or maybe you're teaching in the upper elementary grades or on the middle school level where chapter books rule the school?
No matter the grade or the students' reading levels, this collection of teaching resources from Teach Starter's teacher team is chock full of curriculum-aligned options to help you cut down on the time-consuming task of lesson planning. Help your class meet both Common Core and state-level standards with ELA resources that have undergone a thorough review process to ensure they're ready for your classroom and your students!
With editable options for many of the digital and printable teaching resources in the collection, you can easily differentiate instruction to meet students where they are as they build their understanding of written and oral language.
Reading Resources for Teachers
Here's just a taste of what you can find in this reading resource collection:
- Comprehension texts and comprehension strategy materials for students from kindergarten through 6th grade
- Sight words worksheets, games, and interactives
- Readers theater scripts
- Classroom posters with reading hints and tips for students
- Vocabulary skill-building activities
- Reading response worksheets and activities that let students practice interacting with text, using text evidence, and learning to summarize
- And more!
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Research Notes Template
A template for students to use when recording research notes.
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Sequencing Life Events - Worksheet
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to understand sequence when reading.
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Readers' Theater Script - The Three Little Pigs
A readers’ theater script that can be used for reading fluency and expressive reading.
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Readers' Theater Script - Best in Show
A readers’ theater script that can be used for reading fluency and expressive reading.
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Readers' Theater Script - Rhyme Time
A script which can be used during readers' theater or Drama sessions, aimed at students 8 years and over.
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Activating Prior Knowledge - Comprehension Strategy Poster
A poster explaining how to activate prior knowledge before reading.
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Comprehension - Three Little Pigs
A fun script and set of questions to help students develop reading and comprehension strategies.
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Readers' Theater Script - Treasure Map
A script which can be used during readers' theater or Drama sessions, aimed at students 8 years and over.
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Comprehension Task Cards - Recognizing Cause And Effect
A set of comprehension task cards to help students recognize cause and effect when reading.
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Readers' Theater Script - Muddy Footprint Mystery
A script which can be used during readers' theater or Drama sessions, aimed at students 10 years and over.
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Readers' Theater Script - Hansel, Gretel and Nancy
A script which can be used during readers' theater or Drama sessions, aimed at students 10 years and over.
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Readers' Theater Script - Creepy Cat Club
A script which can be used during readers' theater or Drama sessions, aimed at students in 4th grade or higher.
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Distinguish Between Fact and Opinion Poster
A poster highlighting how to distinguish between fact and opinion 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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Word Work Grid and Worksheets - Version 2
A grid with spelling activities and corresponding worksheets that can be used for any set of spelling words.
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Readers' Theater Script - Santa Needs to Share
A script that can be used in reading or theater class around the holidays.
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Readers' Theater Script - Santa's Big Blunder
A script that can be used in reading or theater class.
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Count the Syllables - Worksheets
Count syllables in words with this set of 5 worksheets.
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Finding Word Meaning In Context - Text And Word Meaning Worksheet
A teaching resource to help teach your students how to find word meaning in context.
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Vivid Action Verbs Posters - Using Strong Verbs
Teach your students to omit boring, overused verbs from their writing with a classroom set of Vivid Verb Posters.
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Idioms Poster
A poster giving the definition for and examples of idioms.
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Simile and Metaphor Self-Portrait Worksheet
Teach students about similes and metaphors by asking them to describe... themselves!
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Fact or Opinion - Cupcake Worksheet
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to distinguish between fact or opinion.
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Exploring Informational Texts Teaching Slides
Teach your students how to write an informational text using this detailed slideshow targeted at lower elementary school students.
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Comprehension Task Cards - Distinguishing Between Fiction and Nonfiction
A set of comprehension task cards to help students distinguish between fiction and nonfiction when reading.
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Character Traits Accordion Template – Blank
Learn how adjectives can be used to describe a character's appearance and personality with a hands-on craft activity aligned to the curriculum.
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Comprehension - Muddy Footprint Mystery
A fun script and set of questions to help students develop reading and comprehension strategies.
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Digraph Bug Swatting Game
Practice digraph knowledge at the start of words with this small group bug swatting game.
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Opinion Texts Sequencing Activity
3 jumbled opinion texts for students to sequence in the correct order.
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Missing Beginnings Worksheet
A worksheet to consolidate initial blend sounds.
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Super Six Reading Comprehension Strategies - Question Flashcards
A set of question cards to use when working with the Super Six reading comprehension strategies.
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The Park (Poem) - Sequencing Activity
A sequencing activity using poetry.
- Reading Worksheets
- Reading Games
- Reading Templates
- Reading Posters
- Reading Flashcards
- Reading Word Walls
- Reading for Pre-K
- Reading for Kindergarten
- Reading for 1st Grade
- Reading for 2nd Grade
- Reading for 3rd Grade
- Reading for 4th Grade
- Reading for 5th Grade
- Reading for 6th Grade
- Reading for 7th Grade