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If you are new to LLLL, you might be wondering what you should be sending home instead of a levelled reader every day? Some schools make up a pack that lasts children the whole week, which I think is a neat approach, if it appeals to you. You don't have to send home a different decodable book each day - you'd quickly run out of titles to read even if you had enough copies to go round! Things that are great to send home include:

• Milo Parent Letters - send home the letter provided for each sound in Stages 1-4 (on the TAR USB). This explains what you have been teaching and provides ideas for related phonemic awareness activities and discussion to have at home.
• Picture books from the library for parents to read to children and to discuss with their children - so vital for linguistic comprehension development.
• Decodable books (and a copy of the The Book Checklist)
• Handwriting practice 
• Read, write and draw (word/s, phrase/s and/or sentence)
• Mini sound swap and word building using a selection of the Mini Speed Sounds and Chants cards with a simple word chain.
• You could also explore the Pip and Tim and The Wiz Kids apps. The Apple Store does an education volume purchase plan - this allows you to assign and re-assign books to children/families. 

Our top tips for homework include:

• Ensure no new learning is taking place at home - just practise/application of skills and knowledge learned in class.
• The most powerful support parents can give at home in Terms 1 and 2 is discussion for oral language development, and reading to their child quality storybooks for linguistic comprehension.
• Decodable books going home are important - we want children to build fluency and confidence, being engaged by a feeling of success and pride in what they can do.
• Don't put too much pressure on homework - play, talk, practice. :)

We had a number of queries about photocopying/scanning our books and resources in 2020. We know that you work in challenging circumstances with budget restrictions and we think you do an amazing job, but we would like remind everybody that it is not okay to photocopy our books and resources – copyright law means permission must be granted from us before copying can be done. This law is crucial to protect the livelihoods of our talented authors and illustrators - we hope you understand. Maureen has kindly granted permission for schools to copy Read, Write and Draw cards. Head to our YouTube channel to find out more about how to use this resource. Schools also have permission to photocopy the speed words in the backs of the decodable books. If you are feeling stuck, please contact us and we will help you work it out.

Little Learners Love Literacy is a sequential, explicit teaching program backed by research. Our director Maureen Pollard and her team are based in Melbourne and they support schools across Australia, New Zealand and beyond with their reading and spelling resources. At LLLL, we believe all children can be successful readers, writers and spellers. They just need the right tools, explicit teaching, plenty of practice and your support. With the LLLL program, you will find everything you need as a teacher or a parent to support children as they learn to read, write and spell. 

Little Learners Love Literacy focuses on synthetic phonics teaching to support all children to be successful readers and spellers. Our range of resources support the development of each of the 5 pillars of reading (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension). 

A decodable book is a story or nonfiction text that has been written only using the sounds and letters children have learnt to date. This means they have the tools they need to read every word in the book without guessing. 

If your child has been taught the sounds and letters listed on the book cover then they can read it - so let them read it out loud and proud! To really master a LLLL Stage children must be really fluent and automatic in their reading, so don’t be afraid to read it over and over again (the more times the better). All of our books have notes at the back to support you too. So find a quiet, comfortable space and enjoy!

At home you can help by:
- Reading to your child – We all know how important bedtime stories are, but let us reassure you that reading a range of books to your child is a valuable activity at any time of day. While children develop their own word reading skills, it is vital to hear books read to them for vocabulary and comprehension development.
- Reading and writing practice – Children need lots of practice opportunities to master the phonics knowledge and skills they are being taught (perhaps even more than you think). We have a range of fun games and activities to provide this practice at each stage of your child’s development. We have reduced the prices of our reading and writing practice games and activities to make them more accessible for you at home. Phonemic awareness games - Being able to hear, say and play with sounds is crucial to reading and spelling development in Foundation and Year 1, as well as pre-school. Why not ask your child to touch their t-oe-s, h-o-p or d-a-n-ce.
- Supporting your child’s teacher and school.
You can access a range of activities on the free downloads page of this website. Video support for these activities is available on our YouTube channel.

The Little Learners Love Literacy program uses an evidence-informed teaching approach to support ALL learners to read and spell. This means we have a certain way of doing things and that way is simple and consistent - if your child gets stuck we always go back to sounding out the word. We don’t promote guessing. Don’t worry … by using these tips and with some positive reinforcement your child will get there. You are doing a great job!

We run regular webinars to support teachers and parents. You can register your interest here. We will then send you information and webinar invites as they become available. We will also share recordings of webinars with anybody who has registered their interest, in case you can’t make it for some reason.

Each of our Pip & Tim decodable books are available as apps. There is an app for each LLLL Stage. The lower stages have audio support to allow children to work independently, and the upper stages have recording functionality to help children improve their fluency. Access the LLLL Apps here. Our Android app is available on the Google Play Store.

• To practice and apply letter-sound relationship knowledge taught to date through a meaningful, continuous text
• To build fluency and stamina
• To build comprehension
• To build confidence and enjoyment in reading.
“Evidence suggests that phonics teaching is more effective when children are given immediate opportunities to apply what they have learned to their reading (Hatcher, Hulme, and Ellis, 1994); so, for these reasons, we believe that there is a good argument for using decodable readers in the very early stages of reading instruction”. Castles, Rastle and Nation, 2018.

 • Small group reading: A bit like guided reading, but 100% focussed on phonics instruction, vocabulary & comprehension and fluency. Visit our SGR blog for support.
• Partner reading: Children read a page each to their partner. The listener helps the reader when they get stuck. They both track the words.
• Independent reading: After the children have read the book with you, they can read it again and again by themselves.
• Word detective: Ask children to find focus words and write them on the cards. Sort them by grapheme. Then write them in their word detective book to build their own wordlists.
• Take home practice: Once you have taught the new phoneme/graphemes and the book has been read in class, you can send it home for repeated practice. This will build fluency and confidence and get children to ‘mastery’ of the new sounds and letters.
• Dictation: Let’s write provides plenty of dictation for the classroom, but parents could pick some sentences from the book to dictate to their child and their child could write it down, later in the week.

The teaching sequence and the decodable book must match up, so that children are never caught out and can always sound out and blend the words in the book. The simplest way is to use the decodable books that come with your systematic synthetic phonics teaching program - this ensures a close match of teaching and application. But every decodable book is part of a sequence and usually has the focus sounds and letters on the back, so you can match in books from other programs too. If your teaching program does not supply decodable books, you might want to consider changing your order of teaching to match the decodable books in your classrooms.

When choosing decodable books it is also important to make sure they are engaging, quality stories or nonfiction - there are plenty of quality decodable texts available to purchase including our series: Pip and Tim and The Wiz Kids!

Stages 1-5: Each apps is $5.99. Stages 6-7: Each apps is $7.99.

Anybody with a compatible Apple or Android device.

Current Compatibility (Nov 2021): The App store lists all compatible devices - iPhone requires iOS 10.0 or later, iPad requires iPadOS 10.0 or later, iPod touch requires iOS 10.0 or later, Mac requires a Mac with Apple M1 chip and macOS 11.0 or later.

The app does not collect any personal information, and does not require an account to use. It has been designed to be used by young children and does not have an age restriction that would require a parent's consent.

Most schools will use a MDM software that works with Apple School Manager. Please contact your IT department or your support via your MDM for help distributing the apps. 

If you search for 'Learning Logic' or Pip and Tim' and can't find the apps, please select 'iPad' from the options available in the top right of your screen (see image below). You may also want to try copying the url from Apple Store and paste into Apple School Manager for each app.