Reading teaching resources for Australia
Fishbone Organiser: Topic, Factors and Details
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Organise a main topic, four factors and two details for each factor using labelled or blank layouts.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Fossils and Paleontology Word search, scramble and crossword
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Fifteen fossil terms - from mold and cast to permineralisation and index fossils - are worked three ways, as a crossword with definition clues, a numbered word scramble and a letter-grid word search, each with its solution.
Author Lapiiin Art Activities
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Tags Word Search, Word Scramble, Printable Puzzles, Educational Games, Activity Sheets, Brain Teasers, Kids Puzzles, Classroom Resources, Teacher Resources, Crossword
FREE: Charlotte's Web Novel Study Guide – Chapter 1
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Fern's runt pig and her father's hammer open a four-page Chapter 1 study set with vocabulary, true-or-false, multiple choice, and long-answer questions, plus a full answer key.
Author Ibby Resources
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Tags Novel, Resource, Activities, Reading, Comprehension, Study, Literature, Worksheets, Free
FREE READING COMPREHENSION TEXT IN SPANISH | READ AND ANSWER | FREE
, Not Grade Specific,
Spanish reading comprehension centres on a short narrative about a child who cares for an injured bird. The story develops the bird’s recovery, a magical song, a golden feather, and a lesson about friendship and kindness. Five questions ask readers to retrieve events and explain what occurred at key moments. A separate page lists the same prompts for recording responses after reading.
Author EDITORIAL LAURA EDUCA
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Tags READING COMPREHENSION TEXT, COMPRENHENSION, TEST, SPANISH TEST, FREE RESOURCE
Fry Sight Words – First 100 Colour-Coded Flashcards
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Colour-coded flashcards for all of Fry's first 100 sight words, the most common words such as the, of, to and in, printed to cut apart for quick reading practice.
Author TeacherYouWant
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Tags Sight Words, Fry Sight Words, Flash Cards, First Hundred, 1-100, Fry Words First 100, Fry's Instant Words, Fry Sight Word Flash Cards Printable, Fry Words The First Hundred
Fry Sight Words Flash Cards Rainbow Borders, 2nd 100
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Rainbow-bordered flash cards for Fry's second 100 sight words, with words such as over, new, sound, take and place to cut apart and practise.
Author TeacherYouWant
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Tags Sight Words, Flashcards, Rainbow, Colroful, Fry's 1st 100, Fry Sight Words, Morning Work, Fun Learning, Second 100
Ghost by Jason Reynolds – Discussion Questions
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Chapter-by-chapter discussion questions for the novel Ghost by Jason Reynolds are organised under RTFO, Respond, Discuss, and Reflect labels, with teacher answers embedded in parentheses.
Author Hey Teacher Shoppe
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Tags Ghost, Jason Reynolds, Comprehension, Discussion Questions, Questions About Ghost, Answers
Goal-Setting Words word search, scramble and crossword puzzle
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Fifteen goal-setting words - goal, target, plan, step, milestone, deadline, priority, objective, strategy, tactic, achieve, measure, specific, realistic, timely - worked through a crossword, a word scramble and a word search, each with its solution.
Author Lapiiin Art Activities
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Tags Word Search, Word Scramble, Printable Puzzles, Educational Games, Activity Sheets, Brain Teasers, Kids Puzzles, Classroom Resources, Teacher Resources, Crossword
Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Story Puppets
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Colour the printable characters and use them to retell Goldilocks and the Three Bears in sequence.
Author Dixie Cup Worksheets
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Graphic Organiser: Conflict
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Four types of literary conflict — Person vs. Self, Person vs. Person, Person vs. Nature, and Person vs. Society — are arranged in a labelled quadrant chart for students to complete.
Author Reading in the Middle Grade
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Tags Graphic Organizer, Conflict, Types Of Conflict, Literature Analysis
Grouping into Categories Worksheet
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Grouping into Categories provides two ways to complete the same classification task. Learners may draw lines from pictures to their matching category, or cut apart the pictures and labels to build physical groups. The four headings require attention to what each image represents rather than a superficial visual feature. A completed reference page shows the intended grouping. The flexible response format supports pencil work, small-group manipulation, or oral sorting with explicit category explanations.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Statistics
Guess the Lyrics – Music Word Game Activity
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Twenty song and theme-song lines, spanning children's TV themes to current pop hits, have key words blanked out for students to fill in from memory.
Author Brave Education
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Tags Guess, Name, Lyrics, Master, Hidden
Guess the Quote: Whose Line is it anyway?
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Twenty-five well-known movie and TV quotes, from The Wizard of Oz to Stranger Things, are matched to their source on a single guessing worksheet with an answer key.
Author Brave Education
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Tags Movie
Guided Reading Anecdotal Notes – Group Template
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A guided-reading anecdotal notes template gives teachers a blank student-by-student table for recording observations during small-group reading instruction.
Author Creatively Mrs. B
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Tags Anecdotal Records, Intervention, Guided Reading, Data Tracking, Progress Monitoring, Guided Reading Notes, Teacher Note Template
Harry the Dirty Dog – Picture Book Study Set
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A companion packet for the picture book Harry the Dirty Dog supplies discussion questions with model answers, craft ideas, and video links, but not the book itself.
Author Simply Schoolgirl
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Tags Harry The Dirty Dog, Picture Book Study, Handwriting Practice, Sight Words, Vocabulary, Art Template, Digraphs, Story Elements, Sorting Activity, Harry The Dirty Dog Activities
Hatchet Discussion Questions by Chapter
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Chapter-by-chapter comprehension questions cover all nineteen chapters and the epilogue of Gary Paulsen's novel Hatchet.
Author Journeys In Learning
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Tags Novel Study, Book Companion, Hatchet Novel, Reading Comprehension, Hatchet Question, Discussion, Discussion Questions, Questions, Reading
Health and Hygiene word search, scramble and crossword puzzle
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Three linked puzzles — a crossword, a word scramble, and a word search, each with an answer page — build fifteen health and hygiene vocabulary words like Germ, Sanitiser, and Vaccine.
Author Lapiiin Art Activities
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Tags Word Search, Word Scramble, Printable Puzzles, Educational Games, Activity Sheets, Brain Teasers, Kids Puzzles, Classroom Resources, Teacher Resources, Crossword
Hi, Fly Guy! Literacy Unit
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Companion worksheets for Hi, Fly Guy! that move from a before-reading can/have/are chart about pets to vocabulary, chapter summaries and a story about the characters' next adventure.
Author Literacy Life
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Tags Fly Guy, Literacy Unit, Graphic Organizers, Fiction Text, Vocabulary
Homophone Matching Cards: Thirty-Four Pairs
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Match 68 cards into 34 homophone pairs, discussing each spelling and meaning. Pronunciation may vary by accent.
Author SEN Resource Source
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Homophones Worksheets: Pear Pair
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Three worksheet formats and two illustrated example pages drill the homophones pear and pair.
Author The Connett Connection
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Tags Homophone Worksheets, Homophones, Commonly Confused Words, Multi-meaning Words, Homonyms
How to Brush Your Teeth – Sequencing & Writing
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Introductory pages explain how-to writing as clear, ordered explanation and provide transition words for beginnings, middle steps, and endings. Separate editing checklists address early and more experienced writers. The activity then offers modelled procedure text, short step cards, sequencing options, and writing pages that let learners reconstruct and explain the process at different levels of independence. New
Author Simply Schoolgirl
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Tags Writing Center, Editing Checklist, Informational, Expository, How-to, Personal Hygeine, Sequencing, Editing, Emerging Writer, New Writer
How to Determine Theme – Student Handout
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The one-page visual breaks theme analysis into a staged process. It begins by asking readers to notice major topics, offers a broad bank of recurring literary ideas, and then directs attention to the text's main idea before developing theme. The compact format works as a reference during close reading, a presentation visual, or a scaffold beside a written response. It supports reasoning without supplying a theme for any specific text.
Author Gerald's Gem
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Tags Language Arts, Literary Themes, Teaching Resource, Strategy Development, Literature Analysis
How to Make Popcorn Worksheet
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The page functions as a text-dependent procedural writing organiser. Learners read the referenced book, discuss how the characters make popcorn, and collaborate on a correctly ordered sequence. Directions prompt transitions such as first, next, then, and last, while a title field frames the final explanation. Since the steps are not printed on the worksheet itself, claims remain limited to the discussion, sequencing, and writing structure rather than the recipe details.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Sequencing
How to Worksheet
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The open organiser can be applied to any task that learners know well enough to teach. Partners write a series of ordered steps, add visual and label support, and physically rehearse the procedure to identify missing or misplaced actions. A reminder to use enough detail shifts the goal from merely listing actions to communicating a usable process. The blank topic makes the page adaptable while the verification routine keeps writing grounded in performance.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Sequencing, Essays