Complete Your Early Reading Journey with Polylino
Hairy Reading gives children their first steps into reading, building phonological awareness skills, including the essential development of phonemic awareness, phonics knowledge, and decoding skills through structured, daily learning.
Polylino supports that journey by introducing children to the joy of stories through listening, discussion, and shared reading experiences - key practices shown to build vocabulary, comprehension, print awareness, and oral language skills.
Find out how Hairy Reading and Polylino work together
Once pupils begin to recognise letters and decode words with Hairy Reading, Polylino helps them connect with the meaning and magic of stories.
Polylino offers beautifully illustrated picture books with audio and text, making it ideal for EAL and SEND learners.
Educators and families can read the stories together or listen to narration — bringing the joy of storytelling to every child.
- Audio narration in 60+ languages supports multilingual and EAL learners.
- Text highlighting helps children track words and develop early comprehension.
- High-quality picture books expose children to vocabulary, rhythm, and story structure.
- Home access extends storytime beyond the classroom, encouraging families to share reading together.
With Hairy Reading and Polylino, every child can experience the wonder of stories while building the essential skills to one day read them on their own.
Explore inclusive storytime with Polylino
Why Hairy Reading and Polylino Work Well Together
Hairy Reading provides daily, structured practice to develop strong phonological awareness and phonics skills. It helps children recognise sounds, connect them to letters, blend and segment words, and build fluent decoding through a carefully sequenced approach.
Polylino introduces children to rich, diverse stories that grow listening skills, vocabulary, comprehension, and a lifelong love of stories. Features like read-aloud narration, visual storytelling, and guided discussion support oral language development, print awareness, and understanding of story structure and meaning.
Used side by side, Hairy Reading and Polylino provide a complete early literacy toolkit that supports all children - including those with EAL or SEND - right from their first encounters with books. Grounded in the understanding that skilled reading develops through both oral language comprehension and fluent decoding, this powerful pairing ensures every child has the support they need to begin their journey to becoming a confident, skilled reader.
Complete Your Literacy Ecosystem
ILT Education UK can help you explore how Hairy Reading and Polylino fit your school’s early literacy strategy, and when used together, they offer even greater value for inclusive, whole-school language and literacy development.
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