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Jolly Phonic: Learning The Letter Sounds

Jolly Phonics is a comprehensive phonics program that teaches children to read and write from an early age using 42 letter sounds rather than the alphabet. Children are taught the letter sounds through fun actions, stories, and songs. They learn to blend the sounds together to read words and segment words into sounds to help with writing. The program teaches five key phonics skills: learning letter sounds, letter formation, blending, segmenting, and tricky words.

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Jolly Phonic: Learning The Letter Sounds

Jolly Phonics is a comprehensive phonics program that teaches children to read and write from an early age using 42 letter sounds rather than the alphabet. Children are taught the letter sounds through fun actions, stories, and songs. They learn to blend the sounds together to read words and segment words into sounds to help with writing. The program teaches five key phonics skills: learning letter sounds, letter formation, blending, segmenting, and tricky words.

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JOLLY PHONIC

Jolly Phonics is a comprehensive programme, based on the proven, fun and multi-sensory
synthetic phonics method that gets children reading and writing from an early age. This means that
we teach letter sounds as opposed to the alphabet. These 42 letter sounds are phonic building
blocks that children, with the right tools, use to decode the English language. When reading a
word, they recognise the letters and blend together the respective sounds; when writing a word
they identify the sounds and write down the corresponding letters. These skills are called blending
and segmenting. These are two of the five skills that children need to master phonics:

1. Learning the letter sounds:


Children are taught 42 letter sounds, which is a mix of alphabet sounds (1 sound –
1 letter) and digraphs (1 sound – 2 letters) such as sh, th, ai and ue. Using a multi-
sensory approach each letter sound is introduced with fun actions, stories and songs.
We teach the letter sounds in 7 groups of 6 letters at a pace of 4-5 sounds a week.
Children can start reading after the first group of letters have been taught and should
have been introduced to all the 42 letter sounds after 9 weeks at school.

2. Learning letter formation


This is taught alongside the introduction of each letter sound. Typically, children
will learn how to form and write the letters letter down during the course of the lesson.

3. Blending
Once the first few letter sounds are learnt, children begin blending the sounds
together to help them read and write new words.

4. Segmenting
When children start reading words, they also need to start identifying the phonic
components that make the word sound the way it does. By teaching blending and
segmenting at the same time children become familiar with assembling and breaking
down the sounds within words.
5. Tricky Words
These are words with irregular parts, such as ‘who’ and ‘I’. Children learn these as
exceptions to the rules of phonics. Introducing the common tricky words early in the
year increases reading fluency (as they frequently occur in those first simple sentences
you might expect them to read).

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