Little Learners Love Literacy

Decodable Books and Resources

Little Learners Love Literacy is an explicit and sequential literacy program that teaches ALL children to read, write and spell with confidence. Created from evidence-based research, it includes phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary knowledge, fluency and comprehension. Speed Sounds and Chants are used in conjunction with the Pip and Tim, Wiz Kids and Big World Decodable Readers to make it easy for ALL children to learn to read. Each stage is sequentially taught so that children can learn, apply and practise their developing skills in words and connected text.

Pip and Tim Decodable Books Stages 1 – 7

Children love reading about the adventures of Pip and Tim. Beautifully illustrated books with great stories which children LOVE to read with words they CAN read! Each story is crafted by Berys Dixon to engage children with surprises and humour.

Carefully sequenced in 7 stages, each stage is levelled to support children as they move through the stages of learning to read. Each book has a How to use this book section which sets out the pedagogy, Speed sounds, Heart words, comprehension and vocabulary questions to talk about. Each stage has a small number of Heart words (high frequency words that children cannot decode at this stage and need to learn by heart).

Pip and Tim - Stage 1
(LL1) $39.00

The Stage 1 stories introduce the Zan family - Tim, Pip, Mum and Dad plus their two pets, Sam and Tip.

Stage 1 books are introduced once children know eight letters and sounds - m s f a p t c i (two vowels). Heart words: the my I.

Pip and Tim - Stage 2
(LL2) $39.00

Stage 2 introduces and practises another eight letters and sounds - b h n o d g l v. Heart words: the my I.

Pip and Tim - Stage 3
(LL3) $39.00

Stage 3 introduces and practises another 5 letters and sounds - y r e qu z. Heart words: he to was we she.

Pip and Tim - Stage 4
(LL4) $39.00

Stage 4 introduces and practises 5 more letters and sounds - j u k x w. Heart words: of are too for her.

Pip and Tim - Stage 4 Plus
(LL4P) $39.00

The Stage Plus 4 books review and practise the skills of Stages 1 - 4 and introduce double consonants - ll, ss, ff. It also introduces the letter 'a' as a word.

Pip and Tim - Stage 5
(LL5) $39.00

Stage 5 introduces consonant digraph – ck.

Pip and Tim - Stage 6
(LL6) $42.50

Stage 6 focuses on consonant digraphs - ck sh ch th ng.

Pip and Tim - Stage 7 Unit 1
(LL71) $42.50

Stage 7 Unit 1 focuses on words with ai ay ea ee igh ie y and oa.

Pip and Tim - Stage 7 Unit 2
(LL72) $42.50

Stage 7 Unit 2 focuses on /ar/ decodable words; /or/ with the graphemes or and aw; /er/ with the grahemes er, ur and ir; /air/ with the graphemes air, ere and are.

Pip and Tim - Stage 7 Unit 3
(LL73) $42.50

Stage 7 Unit 3 focuses on vowel phonemes oo (long and short oo sound), oi oy, ow ou

Pip and Tim - Stage 7 Unit 4
(LL74) $45.00

Stage 7 Unit 4 focuses on split digraphs - a-e as in tale, e -e as in theme, i-e as in shine, o-e as in hope and u-e as in tune. More alternative digraphs are introduced - alternative phonemes for c when followed by an e, i or y and g. Morphology of the suffix ed.

Pip and Tim - Stage 7 Unit 5
(LL75) $55.00

Stage 7 Unit 5 features similes and idioms - leaping like a lizard, loomed over us like giants, winding them up. Morphology: words with these suffixes - tion (mention), sion (explosion), ous (monstrous). Written in the past tense to practise knowledge of -ed endings.

Pip and Tim Basic Code Pack

The Little Learners Love Literacy Pip and Tim Basic Code Classroom Pack gives Kindergarten students the opportunity to practise essential letter-sound knowledge and decoding skills from the basic code.

This pack contains the readers from Stages 1 to 6 of the Little Learners Love Literacy Pip and Tim series. The readers can be used in partner reading, reading groups, or as take home readers.

When selecting your pack you can choose a pack with four or six copies of each set of readers. You can also choose whether or not your pack includes the teacher resource books. SPELD NSW Members receive discounts at the online store.

Pip and Tim Extended Code Pack

A wonderful tool to extend the phonic knowledge and skills of year one and two students!

This pack contains the readers from Stage 7.1 to Stage 7.5 of the Little Learners Love Literacy Pip and Tim series to provide Year One and Two students with readers to practise vowel sounds and spellings. The readers can be used in partner reading, reading groups, or as take home readers.

Big World Nonfiction

Little Learners BIG WORLD nonfiction decodable books are carefully sequenced to match the Little Learners Love Literacy teaching scope and sequence. Explore the engaging topics designed to inspire your curious little learners!

These engaging nonfiction books follow the same phonics sequence as the Little Learners Love Literacy decodable fiction (Pip and Tim), providing extra reading practice … and so much more!

This series covers a range of relevant topics and text types – packing in as many facts as possible. Children will build content knowledge and vocabulary – vital for the development of comprehension. Every book includes a Talk About It section designed to spark discussion and develop oral language skills.

Beautifully designed with a hybrid photographic and illustrative visual approach – these books will engage children and enable them to experience success.

Big World Nonfiction Stage 1
(LLN1) $39.00

Stage 1 introduces and practices eight phonemes and graphemes - m s f a p t c i. Heart words: the my I.

Big World Nonfiction Stage 2
(LLN2) $39.00

Stage 2 introduces and practices another eight phonemes and graphemes - b h n o d g l v. Heart words: the my I.

Big World Nonfiction Stage 3
(LLN3) $39.00

Stage 3 introduces and practices another five phonemes and graphemes: y r e qu z. Heart words: he she we to do was.

Big World Nonfiction Stage 4
(LLN4) $39.00

Stage 4 introduces and practices another five phonemes and graphemes: j u k x w. Heart words: her of are too for see.

Big World Nonfiction Stage 4 Plus
(LLN4P) $39.00

Stage 4 Plus reviews and practices the skills of Stages 1-4 and introduces double consonants: ll ss ff zz.

Big World Nonfiction Stage 5
(LLN5) $39.00

Stage 5 practices blending adjacent consonants and introduces consonant digraph – ck. Phonemes and graphemes: ck.

Big World Nonfiction Stage 6
(LLN6) $42.50

Stage 6 introduces and practices seven consonant digraphs: sh ch tch th ng ph wh.

Big World Nonfiction Stage 7 Unit 1
(LLN71) $42.50

Set 7.1 The level contains 5 engaging non-fiction readers introducing frequent spellings for /ai/, /igh, /oa/ and /ee/

Big World Nonfiction Stage 7 Unit 2
(LLN72) $42.50

The level contains 5 engaging non-fiction readers introducing spellings for the following r-controlled vowel phonemes: /ar/, /aw/, /ur/, /air/, /ear/.

Big World Nonfiction Stage 7 Unit 3
(LLN73) $42.50

The level contains 5 engaging non-fiction readers introducing spellings for the following extended code spellings: /oo/, /oo/, /oi/, /ow/.

Big World Nonfiction Stage 7 Unit 4
(LLN74) $45.00

The level contains 5 engaging non-fiction readers introducing spellings for split vowel digraphs.

Big World Nonfiction Stage 7 Unit 5
(LLN75) $55.00

The level contains 5 engaging non-fiction readers introducing alternative spellings for vowels and consonants and morphology.

Big World Non Fiction Basic Code Pack

The Little Learners Love Literacy Big World NonFiction Basic Code Classroom Pack gives Kindergarten students the opportunity to practise essential letter-sound knowledge and decoding skills from the basic code.

This pack contains the readers from Stages 1 to 6 of the Little Learners Love Literacy Big World Non-Fiction series. The readers can be used in partner reading, reading groups, or as take home readers.

When selecting your pack you can choose a pack with four or six copies of each set of readers. SPELD NSW Members receive discounts at the online store.

Big World Non Fiction Extended Code Sets

A wonderful tool to extend the phonic knowledge and skills of year one and two students!

This pack contains the readers from Stage 7.1 to Stage 7.5 of the Little Learners Love Literacy Big World Non-Fiction series to provide Year One and Two students with readers to practise vowel sounds and spellings. These readers can be used in partner reading, reading groups, or as take home readers.

When selecting your pack you can choose a pack with four or six copies of each set of readers. SPELD NSW Members receive discounts at the online store.

The Wiz Kids Books

These delightful stories with beautiful illustrations and science themes introduce new characters with each book and follow the same phonic progression as in the Pip and Tim Decodable Readers. There are a small number of Heart words included to enable a story to be created.

The Wiz Kids Stage 1
(LLW1) $39.00

Stage 1 focuses on m s f p t c i a (CVC). Heart words: I my My the The.

The Wiz Kids Stage 2
(LLW2) $39.00

Stage 2 introduces more graphemes and phonemes - b h n o d g l v. No new Heart words.

The Wiz Kids Stage 3
(LLW3) $39.00

Stage 3 introduces more graphemes and phonemes - y r qu z e. New Heart words are: he to was we she.

The Wiz Kids Stage 4
(LLW4) $39.00

Stage 4 introduces more graphemes and phonemes - j k x w u. New Heart words: of are too for her.

The Wiz Kids Stage 4 Plus
(LLW4P) $39.00

Stage 4 Plus introduces words with the double letter consonant digraphs ll, ss, ff, zz (as in fill, mess, huff, buzz) and plural words.

The Wiz Kids Stage 5
(LLW5) $39.00

Stage 5 introduces blending adjacent consonants in words – CCVC, CVCC, CCVCC, words with the consonant digraph ck and reading compound and two-syllable words.

The Wiz Kids Stage 6
(LLW6) $42.50

Stage 6 introduces the consonant digraphs sh, ch, ng, th, ph, wh and trigraph tch and reading multi-syllable words.

Wiz Kids Basic Code Pack

The Little Learners Love Literacy The Wiz Kids Basic Code Classroom Pack gives Kindergarten students the opportunity to practise essential letter-sound knowledge and decoding skills from the basic code.

This pack contains the readers from Stages 1 to 6 of the Little Learners Love Literacy The Wiz Kids series. The readers can be used in partner reading, reading groups, or as take home readers.

When selecting your pack you can choose a pack with four or six copies of each set of readers. SPELD NSW Members receive discounts at the online store.

Little Learners Love Literacy Games

Little Learners Love Literacy has a fabulous collection of reading, spelling and writing games to give young readers lots of opportunities to practice reading and writing words while having fun!

Check out Milo’s Read & Grab games, Read, Write & Draw, Sound-Swap and The Wiz Kids Quiz, and Tim’s Quiz today!

Speed Sounds & Chants

The Speed Sounds and Chants provides a mnemonic for teaching and remembering the graphemes in the Little Learners Love Literacy phonics sequence for reading and spelling.

The Display Set is perfect for whole class demonstration and the Classroom Set is for daily speed sounds and small group work.

Each set contains cards with graphemes on one side and a mnemonic on the other. The mnemonic chants and illustrations include all your favourite Milo Monkey characters as well as Pip and Tim from Stage Plus 4 onwards.

Speed Sound Cards, Stage 1-6 Classroom Display Size
(LLSSC1P) $70.00

The Speed Sounds and Chants cards provide a mnemonic for the graphemes from Stages 1 to 6. These 34 cards include all your favourite Milo Monkey characters as well as the Pip and Tim characters for the consonants digraphs introduced from Stage Plus 4, 5 and 6. This pack is the larger classroom display size for demonstration.

Speed Sound Cards, Stage 1-6 Classroom Size
(LLSSC1M) $50.00

The Speed Sounds and Chants cards provide a mnemonic for the graphemes from Stages 1 to 6. These 34 cards include all your favourite Milo Monkey characters as well as the Pip and Tim characters for the consonants digraphs introduced from Stage Plus 4, 5 and 6. This pack is a convenient classroom size for student work.

Speed Sound Cards, Stage 7 Classroom Display Size
(LLSSC7P) $70.00

The Speed Sounds and Chant cards provide a mnemonic for the graphemes from Stages 1 to 6. These 51 cards include new images to represent the vowel graphemes introduced in Stage 7. This pack contains the larger classroom display size for demonstration.

Speed Sound Cards Stage 7 Classroom Size LLSSC7M $50.00

The Speed Sounds and Chants cards provide a mnemonic for the graphemes of Stages 7. These 51 cards include new images to represent the vowel graphemes that are introduced in the four units of Stage 7. This pack contains the convenient classroom size for student work.

Fox Kids Books and Workbooks

Fox Kid is a new series of decodable chapter books specifically designed for older students who are having difficulties with reading and need extra practice to develop essential early reading skills. These books are in a graphic novel style and are ideal for students who are having difficulties with reading in years 2 to 4.

The series also includes companion reading and writing workbooks and card games. Each title cumulatively builds reading skills, following the tried and tested Little Learners Love Literacy® 7-stage explicit teaching sequence.

Teachers Resource Manuals

These resource books can be used in conjunction with the Tim and Pip Decodable books. It gives teachers tools and strategies for successfully teaching spelling and writing using explicit teaching and games and activities.

Teacher Activity Resource Book – Stages 1-4
(LLTAR1) $130.00

This Resource book provides simple lesson plans and ideas to teach phonemic awareness and phonics. The USB contains music and copymasters for handwriting and art/craft activities. Ally the Alligator puppet assists with teaching blending and segmenting phonemes.

Teacher Activity Resource Book – Stages Plus 4, 5 & 6
(LLTAR2) $110.00

This resource book provides explicit teaching, application and practise activities for Stages Plus 4, 5 & 6 graphemes.

Teacher Activity Resource Books – Stage 7 Unit 1
(LLTAR701) $85.00

This Activity Resource book provides explicit teaching, application and practise activities for Stage 7 Unit 1 graphemes.

Teacher Activity Resource Books – Stages 7 Unit 2
(LLTAR72) $85.00

This Activity Resource book continues with the same format as Stage 7 Unit 1. It covers the phonemes /ar/, /er/, /or/, /air/ focusing on the most common graphemes. The alternative graphemes are also taught and can be used for extension activities.

Teacher Activity Resource Books – Stages 7 Unit 3
(LLTAR73) $85.00

This Activity Resource book continues with the same format as Stage 7 Unit 1&2. It covers the phonemes /oo/, /ow/, /oi/, /oo/ focusing on the most common graphemes. The alternative graphemes are also taught and can be used for extension activities.

Teacher Activity Resource Stage 7 Unit 4
(LLTAR74) $85.00

Children also learn some alternative spellings for consonant sounds /s/, /j/, /n/, /r/, and /m/. The focus is still on reading and spelling – reversible skills which need to be linked for the most effective teaching. Stage 7 Unit 4 sequence: a-e a i-e i e-e e o-e o ow u-e ew ue u ui kn gn wwr mb + soft c, soft g and morphology

Small Group Reading Notes

Carefully planned small group reading sessions allow teachers to hear their whole class read every week, whilst providing rich opportunities to instruct, model and guide children towards independent, fluent reading. These teacher notes provide: