Subscribe to our free email newsletter
Little Learners Love Literacy
Reading is one of the most important skills children will learn.
Little Learners Love Literacy is a complete literacy program to teach children to read, spell and write with confidence. Many Australian and New Zealand schools have started 2011 with Little Learners Love Literacy as their core literacy program to ensure children have a successful start.
Little Learners Love Literacy is a multi-sensory approach that supports the explicit teaching of literacy skills. Phonemic awareness activities focusing on blending and segmenting of sounds are an integral part of the program. The set of decodable books give children the opportunity to read real text to practise their literacy skills.
Little Learners Love Literacy is both teacher friendly and child friendly. Milo the monkey's birthday provides an easy and fun way to introduce children to letters and sounds. Children love the characters and feel totally engaged. Teaching can easily be differientated to cater for a range of needs.
The program includes:
- Milo's Birthday Surprise book
- Teacher Resource book with step-by-step lesson plans. It comes with Ally the alligator puppet (one of Milo's friends) as well as a CD of blackline masters for activities and handwriting as well as the Milo Music CD
- Milo's Alphabet Games
- Milo's Birthday Surprise placemat
- Milo's Flipbook
- Milo's wall frieze
- Read and Grab games
- Read and Match game
- Milo's Making Words placemat
- Little Learner books to launch children into reading
Milo’s Birthday Surprise:
It is Monday morning in March and it’s Milo the monkey’s birthday. Milo wants to celebrate with his friends at the park so he decides to ring them. Milo begins to feel really miserable as all of his friends are busy – Sally the snake is skateboarding down a steep slope, Harry the hippopotamus is hiking up the hill to his house. Why doesn’t anyone answer the phone? This is a delightful way of introducing letters and sounds to children using the names of the Milo’s animal friends as a memory jogger.
Becoming aware of the link between sounds and letters is the first step in learning to read. Engaging and bright illustrations prompt children to search for clues about Milo’s birthday surprise
Click here to download an activity for Milo
Milo's Birthday Surprise Teacher Resource 
Includes 2 CDs - Milo's music CD and a blackline master CD plus Ally the alligator puppet. Ally is very special as she only talks in sounds. A great way of teaching segmenting and blending.
This practical resource with 26 explicit teaching sessions explains how to engage children in the learning process of reading, spelling and letter formation using Milo's Birthday Surprise.
Milo's Alphabet Games
A pack of 80 cards with 10 top literacy games to help children learn the alphabet sounds. Milo's Alphabet Games has 26 a-z letter cards plus 2 picture cards for each letter of the alphabet.
Additional cards have numerous ideas for teaching children to spell more than 200 words. What a great start to literacy learning!
Use these cards for 'Speed Sounds' fluency practice. A must for every Prep or Kindergarten classroom.
Code MAG Price $29.95
Milo's Birthday Surprise Alphabet Frieze:
A beautifully illustrated a-z frieze to take children on a journey through the alphabet while meeting Milo's alphabet friends. What is Daisy the dog taking to Milo's surprise party? This frieze provides a wonderful opportunity to talk about sounds and letters while having fun.
Code: MAF Price $14.95
Milo's Making Words Flipbook
Flip over alphabet cards to make more than 200 words to spell and read. Milo's flipbook provides a super way of combining reading and spelling with a 'hands-on' literacy activity. It is even more fun creating nonsense words and real words.
Did you know that 'ck' follows a short vowel sound. Use the flipbook to see how many words you can make.
Code MMWF: Price $17.95
Milo's Word Games - children practise reading while having fun
Milo's Read and Grab Games: $29.95
These games concentrate on words with a consonant, vowel, consonant (CVC). All words can be decoded. Each game has 75 playing cards providing lots of fun with words.
Milo's Read and Grab Consonant Blends $29.95
The purple Read and Grab game focuses on 'consonant blends'. These are words with 2 consonants at the beginning or end of the word, such as snap, plant, crust. Children need as much practice as possible to achieve success. All words can be decoded.
Milo's Read and Match Game $24.95
This bingo style game is simple to play and provides more practice reading decodable words. It can also be used to develop 'rhyme'. Find the picture that rhymes with dig - pig, find the picture that rhymes with sun - run.
Little Learner books
These beautifully illustrated Little Learner books enable children to read using their knowledge of the letters and sounds to decode text and discover the joy of reading.
There are 20 little books are divided into 4 stages. Each stage is carefully sequenced to give children confidence and success. Although the illustrations match the text, we actively discourage children from guessing the words.
Each stage has a small number of Heart words - high frequency words that children need to learn by heart. At the back of each book there is a 'vocabulary check' and 'questions to talk about' section.
$35 for each stage which includes 5 books
Milo’s Birthday Surprise Placemat
This laminated placemat with Milo's friends on one side and the plain
letter shapes on the other, provides fun opportunities to talk about letters and sounds.
Code MBSP Price $12.95
Milo's Making Words Placemat
Two laminated placemats that enable children to identify and circle letters/sounds in a sequence to make words. It also includes -ck ending. The rule being that after a short vowel sound in a one syllable word the /c/ sounds had the letters -ck. The placemat also includes -ll, -ff, -ss plus instructions and lists of words which can be made. A super resource that can be used over and over again.
One placemat has the Milo characters and the other is plain. $18.95