We often get asked at this time of year for support with reading assessment and reporting. As schools following the Little Learners Love Literacy® program teach both reading and spelling from the very beginning of school, we would recommend using the LLARS and LLASS mid-year and at the end of the year to record children's progress and to diagnose any gaps - informing tier 1 classroom instruction and additional tier 2 interventions.
| Schedule | Foundation | Year 1 |
| Term 1 | - | |
| Term 2 | LLARS & LLASS 1 | LLARS & LLASS 4 & 5 |
| Term 3 | - | |
| Term 4 | LLARS & LLASS 2 & 3 | LLARS & LLASS 6 & 7 |
We recommend leaving the LLARS assessment as late as possible in term 2 in Foundation. The results will depend on how much of the sequence you have taught prior to the assessment.
Below are our suggested benchmarks and some additional guidance to help get you through this report writing season! Don't forget, we run free webinars on all our assessments - please sign up and join us online this term to learn more about the LLARS and the LLASS - and to ask all of your questions.
- Little Learners Assessment of Reading Skills (LLARS) - phoneme-grapheme recognition; single word /non-word decoding; heart words; unseen decodable texts. New data spreadsheet is now available through the button below
- Little Learners Assessment of Spelling Skills (LLASS) - Phoneme-grapheme knowledge; segmenting to encode single words, spelling compound and multi-syllable words, morphology knowledge
NEW LLARS Class Record Sheet
Little Learners benchmarks
Little Learners Love Literacy® has its own teaching scope and sequence and end-of-year benchmarks. All Little Learners teaching resources and assessments are based on this teaching sequence. The Little Learners benchmarks for reading and spelling in Foundation and Year 1, as shown below, are achievable.
Both assessments begin mid-year Foundation and align the student’s knowledge/skills with Little Learners Love Literacy® stages.
We have created some mid-year expectations to guide your reporting to parents - using your LLARS and the LLASS assessment data plus teacher judgement:
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LLARS score |
Fluency (teacher judgement) |
LLASS score |
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Year F |
0.5 (mid-yr) |
Stage 3-4 (pass) |
N/A |
N/A |
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F (end yr) |
Stage 6 (pass) |
Stage 6 - developing |
Stage 5 |
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Year 1 |
F.5 (mid-yr) |
Stage 7.2 (pass) |
Stage 7.2 - developing |
Stage 7.1 |
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1 (end yr) |
Stage 7.4 (pass) |
Stage 7.4 - developing |
Stage 7.3 |
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Year 2 |
1.5 (mid-yr) |
Stage 7.5+ (pass) |
Stage 7.5 - fluent |
Stage 7.5 |
Fluency is an ongoing skill – if you'd like further guidance please read more about fluency assessment and instruction using LLLL here.
More assessment support
For more information read more on our website and/or use the buttons below to download the assessment manuals and to book a free webinar!
The LLARS Manual Access the LLASS Book a free webinar
Contact us
Please contact us via email with any queries or requests and we’ll do our best to help: hello@learninglogic.com.au