Reading teaching resources for the United Kingdom
CHARACTER: The FIVE Elements of a Story Graphic Organisers
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Character graphic organisers for any story, from a character map and a trait chart with text evidence to a relationship web, Venn comparison and character sketch.
Author Ibby Resources
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Tags Study, Skills, Character, Literary, Device
Character Traits Anchor Chart – 4-Chart Set
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Two paired anchor charts teach students to infer a story character's traits from thoughts, feelings, actions, and how others describe them.
Author First in Line
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Tags Anchor Charts, Reading Printable, Reading Chart, Character Traits, Reading Notebook
Character Traits word search, scramble and crossword puzzle
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Fifteen trait adjectives — brave, kind, honest, loyal, greedy, selfish, courageous, arrogant, humble, jealous, patient, rude, polite, curious, lazy — are clued by short synonyms across a crossword, a scramble and a letter grid.
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
Characters Anchor Chart
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An anchor chart defines characters and identifies the main character as the story's most important, central figure, provided in both a completed reference version and a fill-in-the-blank version.
Author First in Line
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Tags Characters, Reading, Books, Language Arts, Anchor Chart, Character Anchor Chart
Characters, Setting & Big Events Worksheet
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Characters, Settings, and Big Events of a Story Worksheet turns a read-aloud into a three-part story-elements response. Learners identify who appears in the story, where it takes place, and something important that happens, using both a picture and a sentence for each part. The matching character, setting, and big-event sections support a complete response without asking learners to retell every detail.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Story Elements, Identifying Story Setting Worksheets Pdf
Charlotte’s Web: Character Trait Webs
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Record traits for Wilbur, Charlotte, Fern, Templeton and Avery, then support each choice with a moment from the novel. The book is needed separately.
Author Life with 5 Boys
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Charlotte’s Web: Compare the Characters
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Use four Venn diagrams to compare character pairs from Charlotte’s Web. Two supplied PDF versions repeat the same four comparisons.
Author Life with 5 Boys
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom – Literacy & Maths Activity
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Two colouring-and-counting worksheets built around the picture book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom pair a name-letter colouring page with a coconut-counting page.
Author Lauren DeSantis
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Tags Literacy, Math Station, Counting, Handwriting, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Child Abuse Prevention Month word search puzzle worksheet activity
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Protective vocabulary appears inside a large word-search grid designed for introduction or review. Its term bank includes ideas about safety, trusted support, rights, speaking up, advocacy, shelter, healing, and empowerment. The page does not teach a reporting protocol or replace safeguarding guidance; it is a vocabulary puzzle only. A completed companion page supports checking while keeping every marked location out of the visible description.
Author Lapiiin Art Activities
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Tags Word Search, Word Scramble , Puzzles, Worksheet, Activities, Vocabulary, Holidays, Printable, Games, Morning Work
Citing Evidence Digital Game
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Citing evidence game in Google Slides with five self-checking parts: students review the four steps of citing evidence, answer questions about an embedded text and build a paragraph.
Author Mrs. Spangler in the Middle
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Tags Citing Evidence, Digital Game, Reading Strategies, Interactive, Reading Stations
Citing Text Evidence Anchor Chart – 3-Chart Set
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R.A.C.E. — restate, answer, cite, explain — is laid out as a display chart in three versions: bare steps, guided steps and a fill-in-the-blank copy. Three versions of the same R.A.C.E. chart move from a plain step list to guided wording to a fill-in-the-blank recall check.
Author First in Line
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Tags Reading Printable, Reading Poster, Anchor Chart, Text Evidence, Reading Questions, Citing Textual Evidence Practice Pdf, How To Teach Text Evidence, Citing Text Evidence, Cite A Chart, Citing Textual Evidence, Citing Textual Evidence Activities For Middle School
Compare and Contrast Anchor Chart – Set of 4
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Clue words, question stems and sentence frames for comparing and contrasting, built around a worked two-circle example about two children in room 39, with a complete chart and fill-in versions of the same design.
Author First in Line
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Tags Compare, Contrast, Anchor Chart, Reading Notebook, Bulletin Board
Compass Rose Worksheet
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Compass Rose Worksheet asks learners to place all eight direction abbreviations on a compass diagram. North, south, east, and west establish the four cardinal points, while northeast, southeast, northwest, and southwest complete the diagonal positions. The single labelling task keeps attention on the spatial arrangement and abbreviation of each direction. Every required abbreviation is printed in the direction line for reference during completion.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Maps, Compass Rose Printable, Compass Activity Worksheet, How To Use A Compass Worksheet, Compass Worksheet, Compass Rose Simple
CONFLICT: The FIVE Elements of a Story Graphic Organisers
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Ten blank graphic organisers guide students through analysing a story's conflict from different angles, from a basic problem/solution chart to a chart classifying conflict as character-versus-nature, -self, -society or -character.
Author Ibby Resources
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Tags Study, Skills, Character, Graphic Organizer, Story Elements
Coordinate Grid Map Location – Plotting Worksheet
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Create a map-location activity with this blank grid labelled A–J horizontally and 0–10 vertically. Students can add places and exchange letter-number location clues. The single printable page includes name and title spaces; supply your own map-making instructions.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Sight Words, Maps, Blank Grid Map, Map With Coordinate Grid, Coordinate Grid Map, Map Grid Worksheets Pdf, Coordinate Grid Worksheets
Coping Skills word search and word scramble
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Coping skills vocabulary anchors a matched pair of puzzles, a word search and a word scramble, giving students two independent formats for practising the same set of terms.
Author Lapiiin Art Activities
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Tags Word Search, Word Scramble, Printable Puzzles, Educational Games, Activity Sheets, Brain Teasers, Vocabulary Builder, Kids Puzzles, Classroom Resources, Teacher Resources
Crossword Puzzle: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
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The student page presents a large numbered grid with extensive across and down clue lists. Some entries focus directly on the tragedy’s characters, political conflict, themes, and events, while others draw on language, history, geography, science, and popular culture. This mixed clue design demands both literary recall and broader vocabulary knowledge. Page two is labelled as the completed solution and adds explanatory notes for selected entries; none of those responses are repeated in the authored copy.
Author Jay Waggoner
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Tags Crossword Puzzle, Literature Exploration, Vocabulary Enrichment, Educational Resource, Shakespeare
Cut & Glue: Weather
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Weather words like snowflake, lightning, foggy and icicles are matched to their pictures in this cut-and-glue worksheet, offered in full colour and in line art.
Author Better Teaching Resources
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Tags Cut, Glue, Weather, Matching, Words
Short A CVC Words – Phonics Word List Posters
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Forty-eight short-a CVC words, from bag and cat to pan and zap, fill two poster-style word lists arranged in three columns per page.
Author Ponder Palette Plazza
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Tags Cvc, Vowels, Posters, Literacy, Cvc Words, Short Vowels
CVCC Word and Picture Flash Cards
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Forty-eight CVCC words, from sand and lamp to gift and camp, are paired one-to-three-per-card across sixteen picture flash cards.
Author SEN Resource Source
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Tags Phonics, Sounds, Flash Cards, CVCC Words, Reading, Blending, Sounding Out
CVCC Words Tracing Flashcards: Short Vowels (A E I O U), CVCC Words List
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Roughly ninety CVCC words spanning all five short vowels are laid out eight per page as tracing flashcards, from back/pack to bust/dust.
Author TeacherYouWant
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Tags CVCC, Phonics, Cvcc Words List Pdf, Onk Words List, Cvcc Pattern Words
Silent-e Tracing Cards: Long a, i, o and u
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Read and trace silent-e words grouped by long-vowel sound. Twenty pages of text-only cards connect the CVCe pattern with pronunciation.
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Daily Reading Record
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One-to-one reading record for teachers: a tick chart with a row for each child and Monday to Friday columns across three weeks, for logging who has been heard read each day.
Author Elementary Resources 4 U
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Tags Reading Record, Daily Reading, Reading Assessment, Small Group, Literacy, Fluency, Data Tracking, Data Charts
Daily Rebus Puzzles: One Hundred Visual Challenges
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Decode familiar sayings from pictures and words in one hundred numbered rebus puzzles. Four solution pages provide checking support.
Author Simply Schoolgirl
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