Jolly Phonics

zippybungle

Hi,

Just wondered if anyone has used 'Jolly Phonics'

My son is 5 and in year 1 at School, and I think he could do with a little bit more help at home with literacy.

I saw some for sale in ELC today, priced £2.00 per workbook and nearly bought one, but have just found some cheaper ones on ebay (under £10 for 7 different workbooks).

Zippy x

MX5huggy

There's nothing jolly about phonics!

PinkLipgloss

Hi there,

I'm a Year 1 teacher and my kids love Jolly Phonics!

There is a free guide here:

http://www.jollylearning.co.uk/


Please be really careful when teaching your son sounds as lots of adults (parents AND teachers) actually teach phonics incorrectly which leads to problems in spelling (classic examples are saying "bi" for the "b" sound and "pi" for 'p' sound).

I use this interactive resource with my class and they constantly request to use it:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jolly-Phonics-Games-single-User/dp/1844140822/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1301005190&sr=8-3

It has 3 levels of difficulty and its fantastic IMO.

I'd avoid worksheets and such like as much as possible - young children tend to find them boring. There is a CD of songs you can buy which would be great for singing along to whilst in the car/bath etc (reinforces the sounds and actions!).

zippybungle

Thanks PinkLipGloss, I will take a look at those links

Zippy x

building_with_lego

Check that his school uses Jolly Phonics though- some use other 'brands' and he may find the different teaching methods confusing.

charlie-chan

Buh is for Bat..

You do have to be careful with your accent as well when you use Jolly Phonics. I remember working with one group and they were repeating the letters back in my accent.. oops!

Alleycat

My daughter who's 6 and in year one loves jolly phonics. I don't think they do written work as that's in literacy but they sound out the words they are learning using it. The year one teachers did a brief parents meeting on it at the start of reception explaining the sounds and hand signs they use such as "a a a" and fingers going up the arm like ants.

Maybe you could ask the teacher to meet with you to go through the way they teach it so you can follow this up at home?

Charlie - in the other reception/year one class, the teaching assistant usually teaches the phonics as the teacher has a very strong South African accent and she didn't want to confuse the kids!

Gingham_Ribbon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Finger-Phonics-Books-1-7-Jolly/dp/1870946316/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1301038778&sr=8-1

These are WONDERFUL.

Also, I agree with the above comments about how to sound out the letters. Some of the letters come from the mouth, not the throat. These sounds don't need the voice box - c, f, h, k, p, s, t, x, ch, sh and soft th (things not there.)

Hope that makes sense!

meeps

for these kind of sets of books keep an eye out at the book people, red house books, banana books etc as they often have sets, my son had oxford reading tree and though the books were a couple of pounds each, you could get sets for under a tenner sometimes.

gratefulforhelp_2

Used jolly phonics with DD1, and would do again with DD2...very useful, but there is lots of other good supporting materials out there too.

Found the handwriting practise useful.

Alleycat

Asked DD on way to school and she says she does use worksheets, so ignore that bit of my post!