Pip and Tim Stage 5 vs Decodable Readers L2 Sample

Little Learners Love Literacy® is a sequenced phonics reading program to give children confidence and success.  Letters and sounds are introduced in stages.  Each stage has 5 beautifully illustrated books with real stories about Tim and Pip and their adventures. Little Learners 5 teaches children to read words with -ck. The Little Learners Apps are enhanced with professionally recorded and produced audio. Each story can be read aloud, and most importantly, the words are highlighted as they are read. In addition, children can tap a word which is then highlighted and spoken. The audio can be turned off from the book home screen. They are Australia’s favourite learn-to-read books. Created by reading experts and based on best practice teaching, the lively stories and sequenced progression will ensure children learn to read.  Little Learners Love Literacy® is perfect for home or in the classroom. Evidence-based research has shown that the explicit teaching of phonics is the most effective way of teaching children to read.   Learning to read is too important not to use these Little Leaners Love Literacy books.  Once children know 8 sounds, they can blend these together to start reading our first 5 books in Stage One.     Each book has a fun story about Tim and Pip and their adventures.  Children become engaged with the characters, their family, friends and pets.  This app is true to the books and focuses on learning-to-read in a modern and enjoyable way with audio support: • child reads the sounds and Heart Words (high frequency words that cannot be sounded  out at this stage)  • or tap each sound to hear it pronounced • child reads the story using ‘sounding out’ as their first strategy • tap on a word to hear it being read  Hints and Tips: Each book provides vocabulary and comprehension questions.   Encourage children to run their fingers under each word as they read  All words, except for Heart Words, in these books can be ‘sounded out’.  To do this, children point to each letter or digraph, saying the sounds and then blending the sounds together to read the word.   These five books use all the sounds of the initial alphabetic code. There are NO tricks as children use their phonic skills to read. These books are audio enhanced – tap on a word to have it read aloud. Little Learners Love Literacy Stage 5 introduces –ck consonant digraph. These fun stories about Pip and Tim provide practice in reading words with ‘ck’. There are new Heart words in each story as shown on the last page of each book. Children love the quirky stories and they are confident that there are NO tricks in the books. Great way to build reading confidence. • The Fan-tas-tic Snack • The Pip and Tim Zoo • The Best Stuff • A Bag of Junk • Splat!

The Decodable Readers Australia books support a systematic approach of learning to read. This approach ensures kids are given the “right-fit” book. Decodable, or phonic readers, only contain words made up of the sounds a child has learnt. Within each level in the Decodable Readers Australia Series, a new group of sounds is introduced. As children move through each level the sounds progress from simple to complex. The Decodable Readers Australia – Level 2 books introduce the sounds m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e u and r. All the words in each of the 20 books in Level 2 are made up of these sounds and those introduced in Level 1, along with minimal sight words. After having mastered the Level 1 sounds and the basic reading skills of blending and tracking, children should have gained the confidence to read Australian stories with new words and more text on each page. Each story in Level 2 can be enjoyed by listening to the professional audio or read aloud with the support of tapping and hearing the word if required. The audio function can be controlled independently within each page. Both parents and teachers can continue to support children with vocab and comprehension development through using the post-reading activities provided within each story. An addition to the Level 2 readers are the wide range of pre-reading activities that can be used to help set the purpose for reading. Key Features: • listen to each story being read to them using the audio function • use each book to practice reading independently • tap each word to hear the sounds and the word if support is needed • tap to turn each page for individual reading pace • all Australian themes and characters • beautifully illustrated with detail for engagement and enjoyment