Littles Love Learning Podcast

As parents of young children, we know how important it is to work on literacy skills with our kids. We want to teach them according to the Science of Reading so they grow into strong readers AND spel…

Teaching your child to read involves a lot of steps:

• Helping them pull apart the sounds in words (segmenting)
• Helping them match those sounds to letters (alphabetic principal)
• Helping them blend those s…

Today's episode is a little more personal than usual. I'm doing a deep-dive into why (and how) I taught my kids to read before they went to kindergarten.

This was the best choice for my family, but ev…

In order for your child to properly learn to read, it's important that you support their teacher's efforts by working with your child at home.

When we can get parents AND teachers on the same team, it…

Reading is one of the MOST important skills your child will learn. If they are not taught correctly from the start, it will cause a lot of struggles later on, which will require intervention to corre…

A common question I get as an early literacy specialist is, "Will my child be too smart for kindergarten if I teach them to read? Won't they be bored in school?"

I'm here today to share my perspective…

As parents of young children, we know how important it is to work on letters and sounds at home.

We want to teach our children according to the Science of Reading so they grow into strong readers and …

One of the most common questions parents have when teaching their children to read is, "Should I teach my child letter names or letter sounds first?"

This is a BIG debate in the early childhood space,…

One of the most important steps when teaching your child to read is teaching them how to properly blend letter sounds.

This starts with LOTS of oral blending (phonemic awareness), and then it's time…

As parents of young children, we know how important it is to work on literacy skills with our kids. We want to teach them according to the Science of Reading so they grow into strong readers and spel…

As parents of young children, we know how important it is to work on literacy skills with our kids. We want to teach them according to the Science of Reading so they grow into strong readers and spel…

As parents of young children, we know how important it is to work on literacy skills with our kids. We want to teach them according to the Science of Reading so they grow into strong readers and spel…

As parents of young children, we know how important it is to work on literacy skills with our kids. We want to teach them according to the Science of Reading so they grow into strong readers and spel…

As parents of young children, we know how important it is to work on literacy skills with our kids. We want to teach them according to the Science of Reading so they grow into strong readers and spel…

Do you know how to properly teach the rule about letter Q? Can you correctly produce the sound represented by QU?

If you're teaching your child to read based on the Science of Reading, you need to und…

When you're teaching your child to read and spell, they might wonder why letter S is used to spell the /z/ sound at the end of some words like is, his, and has.

Keep listening to learn when letter S s…

When you're teaching your child to spell, they might wonder how to spell /k/ at the beginning of a word...should they use C or K?

Keep watching to learn a generalized spelling rule that teaches your c…

Do you know why "am" and "an" are NOT great words to start with when teaching your child to read?

You'll see these words in many alphabet books and on lots of worksheets, but they should NOT be the fi…

Two of the trickiest letters for kids to identify are lowercase b and lowercase d. Many kids have a hard time telling them apart when reading and spelling.

But there are certain tricks we can teach ou…

Do you know the difference between blends and digraphs?

If you're teaching your child to read in a way that's aligned with the Science of Reading, you need to know the difference between blends and di…