Early Literacy Resources for Young Learners
Empowering educators with engaging literacy tools.
Empowering Young Readers & Writers
Our Mission
At Kira's Readers, we are dedicated to nurturing a love for reading and writing in young children. Our resources are designed to engage early learners and build a strong foundation for literacy development.
At The Zoo Letter Formation Resource Package
At The Zoo Children's Story Book
Handwriting Booklets - Student Resource
At The Zoo Children's Story Book
Turn handwriting into an adventure kids love!
At the Zoo helps children understand how letters are formed by introducing simple, memorable symbols through an engaging story. These symbols represent the key shapes used in handwriting—making learning clear, fun, and meaningful.
What you’ll love about the book:
- A playful story that brings letter formation to life
- Simple, memorable symbols children can easily understand
- Builds confidence before formal handwriting begins
Build strong foundations in letter formation the right way—through connection, repetition, and fun
Letter Formation cards
Handwriting Booklets - Student Resource
At The Zoo Children's Story Book
Make handwriting clear, consistent, and easy to teach!
These Letter Formation Cards give educators a simple, visual way to show children exactly how letters are built. Using familiar symbols from the story, each card breaks down letter formation into clear, manageable steps—taking the guesswork out of handwriting instruction.
Why you’ll love them:
- Provide explicit, step-by-step modelling of letter formation
- Use consistent symbols children already recognise
- Support whole-class teaching, small groups, or 1:1 instruction
Perfect for building confidence and helping children form letters correctly from the very beginning
Handwriting Booklets - Student Resource
Handwriting Booklets - Student Resource
Build confidence. Strengthen skills. Make handwriting stick!
These Handwriting Booklets give children the opportunity to practise letter formation using the same familiar symbols introduced in the story and taught through the cards. This consistency helps children understand how letters are formed—not just copy them.
What makes them effective:
- Two differentiated levels to support all learners
- Guided practice using recognisable symbols
- Repetition that builds muscle memory and confidence
Designed to move children from supported practice to independence, these booklets help turn understanding into accurate, confident handwriting
Where symbols turn into letters
Where symbols turn into letters
Watch learning come to life as children connect symbols to letter shapes in a way that finally makes sense. This resource turns abstract handwriting into something visual, memorable, and engaging.
It’s not just practice—it’s understanding. Give your learners the confidence to form letters correctly from the very beginning.
Buy the bundle today!
Where symbols turn into letters
Buy the bundle today!
Turn handwriting into an adventure kids love!
At the Zoo helps children understand how letters are formed by introducing simple, memorable symbols through an engaging story. These symbols represent the key shapes used in handwriting—making learning clear, fun, and meaningful.
What’s inside:
- A playful digital storybook that brings symbols to life
- Letter formation cards for clear, explicit teaching
- 2 differentiated handwriting books for confident practice
Build strong foundations in letter formation the right way—through connection, repetition, and fun
Early Readers
Reading Cards
Help children take their first steps into reading with confidence!
Designed in line with the Science of Reading, these differentiated reading cards support children to develop strong foundations by starting at the sound level. Students are explicitly taught to track from left to right while practising essential letter–sound relationships.
As their skills grow, children move from individual sounds to blending simple VC and CVC words—building accuracy, fluency, and confidence in early reading.
Perfect for:
- Explicit phonics instruction
- Small group or independent practice
- Building early decoding skills the right way
Give your learners the tools they need to become successful, confident readers—one sound at a time.
Decodable Readers
Set your learners up for reading success with this engaging bundle of 6 beginner decodable readers, carefully designed to align with the Science of Reading.
Featuring the early sound set s, a, t, p, i, n, m, these books give children the opportunity to practise blending and decoding in a way that is structured, supportive, and confidence-building.
Join cheeky Nim on his playful under-the-sea adventures as children read simple, fully decodable texts that match what they have been explicitly taught.
What’s included:
- A Tin
- Tap It
- Nim
- Sit
- A Map
- Nap
Why you’ll love this bundle:
- Fully decodable texts using the satpinm sequence
- Supports accurate blending and reduces guessing
- Builds early reading confidence from the very beginning
- Encourages left-to-right tracking and fluency
- Perfect for Prep, early years, and intervention
Sound Mapping Mats
Say It. Tap It. Build It with Turtle Sound Mapping Mats!
Make phonics hands-on, engaging, and effective!
Aligned with the Science of Reading, these mats help children segment sounds and map them to letters—building strong foundations for reading and spelling.
Using turtle counters, students tap each sound, then build or write the word. As confidence grows, they move from hands-on support to independent writing.
What’s included:
- Sound mapping mats
- Turtle counters
- Letter cards (satpin set)
- VC & CVC word practice
Perfect for:
- Building phoneme segmentation
- Strengthening letter–sound knowledge
- Small groups, rotations, or intervention
Build confident readers—one sound at a time.
Decodable Readers Single Books
Not ready to commit to the bundle? We've got you covered! Buy our downloadable decodable readers individually!
Give children the perfect start to reading with decodable texts designed for success from the very first sound.
Aligned with the Science of Reading, these beginner readers introduce the sounds s, a, t, p, i, n, m, supporting children to blend and decode simple words with confidence.
✨ What makes these readers special:
- Fully decodable (satpinm sequence)
- Encourages accurate blending (no guessing!)
- Builds confidence through early success
- Supports left-to-right tracking and fluency
- Perfect for Prep and early years
Start your students’ reading journey with texts they can actually read.
Children's Stories
The Colours of the Sky
The Colours of the Sky
The Colours of the Sky
Introduce your child to warm and cool colours through this beautifully illustrated children’s book.
Journey into a magical sky where colours come to life, each with their own feelings, energy, and way of being. Follow the warm colours as they dance with the Sun—bright, lively, and full of joy—and the cool colours as they drift gently with the Moon—calm, peaceful, and quiet.
Through this enchanting story, children will begin to understand the difference between warm and cool colours in a meaningful and imaginative way, while also discovering an important message: even when we feel different, we all belong together.
A gentle, heart warming story perfect for little learners, inspiring creativity, emotional awareness, and a love of colour.
At the Zoo
The Colours of the Sky
The Colours of the Sky
This beautifully crafted story makes learning letter formation feel like an adventure.
Through engaging characters and meaningful symbols, children begin to understand the shapes behind letters in a way that truly sticks.
It’s more than just a story—it builds confidence, sparks curiosity, and lays the foundation for strong, correct handwriting from the very beginning.
