How Little Readers works.
You read with your child. We hand you the structure. Two frameworks (PEER and CROWD) sit underneath every prompt deck, but you don't have to memorise them. The app does the lifting.
Pick a book
Open The Library for a curated title with hand-written prompts, or open The Coach and type any book on your shelf to get prompts generated for it.
Tap "Hands-free read"
The button sits above every prompt deck. The screen goes black, the prompt is read aloud, and the mic listens for "next", "back", "repeat", or "done". Phone face-down on the bedside table is the goal.
Run each prompt through PEER
The prompt is just the P. The other three letters are what turn it into the dialogic reading move that moves the needle. See below.
Check History the next morning
Every hands-free session logs to your history: book, date, prompts completed, time spent. The dialogic reading habit is the product. History is your evidence of it.
PEER. The rhythm of every prompt.
- P · Prompt
- Ask the question we put in front of you.
- E · Evaluate
- Whatever they say, affirm it warmly. There are no wrong answers.
- E · Expand
- Rephrase their answer back with one extra detail or richer word.
- R · Repeat
- Ask them to say the bigger sentence back. That's the embedding move.
CROWD. The five prompt types we mix.
Each deck rotates through these so the child gets a varied workout. You'll see the type tagged on every prompt.