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Make best practice common practice with Little Learners Love Literacy®

Victoria is doing great things in the area of reading! In June this year, the Victorian Government...

Whole Class Vs Small Group Instruction

Is there still a place for small group work in an evidence-based literacy classroom following a...

How to teach Heart Words

How to teach sight words (or golden words or magic words or me-ow words or top 100 words, however...

What are Heart Words?

Heart Wordsare common words that aren’t decodable for the reader, they have parts that need to be...

How do I monitor student progress

When the Little Learners Team are asked this question, we find that people often get muddled around...

Aligning your take-home reading

Let's take a moment to think about the value of take-home reading and ask ourselves some key...

Updates to the LLARS reading assessment

We give away our reading assessment for free because we believe it is so important to have an...

The role of parents in reading instruction

Professor Pamela Snow published another interesting blog to The Snow Report recently 'Calling time...

Ally Talk - fun daily phonemic awareness!

Ally the alligator is a colourful hand puppet with a huge mouth which opens and shuts as she...

New South Wales Curriculum 2023 - Phonic Knowledge

The New South Wales curriculum outcomes align very well with the Little Learners Love Literacy®...

Meet Ash ...  she's doing the LLARS

Meet Ash ... at the end of Foundation she did her very first LLARS (Little Learners Assessment of...

What will your literacy block look like in 2023?

Every school and team is different and we're all on different stages of our science of reading...