Early teaching of the

English Literacy with Jolly

Phonics
December 9-15,
2019
 Cracking the alphabet code

What is Phonics?
Synonym
• Phonics is a method of
teaching beginners to read
or pronounce words by
learning phonetic value
sounds of letters, letter
groups, and syllables.
• Synonym

• Sounds
dog

g
 How does it work?

• Develop the ability to hear,

• Identify and manipulate sounds
• Crack the codes in words.
• Learn the relationship between
sounds and spelling patterns that
represent them.
 A sounds/phonemes can be
1, 2, 3 or 4 letters

n igh
n
ph
sh
eigh
1 Phonemes = 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 grapheme/letter.

• oa <g-oa-t>
• o-e < m-o-l-e>
• o <g-o>
• oe <d-oe>
• ough <b-ough-t>
• ow <b-l-ow>
• aue <p-l-a-t-eau>
• ou <s-ou-l
Graphemes can represent more
than one phoneme

ch
• ch <cherry>
•K <school>
• sh <Charlotte>
Cracking the alphabet code
<ch>

/ch/ <Cherry>

/k/ <Christopher>

/sh/ Charlotte
 Jolly Phonics
Jolly Phonics is the leading fun, multisensory
systemized synthetic phonics program for reading and
writing. It is used in 70% of schools in the UK and now
being used across Africa.
 For children English as their 1st, 2nd,
3rd or 4th langauge
Uganda, Ethiopia, Eritrea,
South Sudan, Djibouti,
Somaliland, Kenya, Malawi,
Zambia, South Africa, Namibia,
Cote D’voire, Cameroon, Liberia,
Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria,
Guinea…
Success of the JP program for bilingual
and trilingual children?

• It’s a program that grows with our

children
• Teacher friendly
• It is a fun and multisensory approach
• It accommodates different styles of
teaching
• It teaches children to read unknown
words at a young age.
When is JP not successful?
• Lack of teacher knowledge
 Understanding the system
 Recognize target learners
 The absence of techniques
 Identifying the gaps
 Set objectives
 Observation, follow-ups and an on
going assessment strategies
 The 5 basic skills taught with Jolly Phonics.

1. Learning the letter sound

2. Learning the letter formation
3. Blending
4. Identifying sounds in
words/segmenting
5. TRCKY WORDS
 8 Steps
• Story line
• Sound
• Action
• Formation
• Blending
• Sounding/identification of sounds or
segmenting
• TRICKY WORDS
• Jolly song
 42 Letter Sounds
1.s a t i p n
2. c k e h r m d
3. g o u l f b
4. ai j oa ie ee or
5. z w ng v oo oo
6. y x ch sh th th
• Children are able to blend and build
their self-esteem with the first group
of words.

• s-a-t
• a-t
• p-a-t
 Diagraphs
4. ai oa ie ee or
5. ng oo oo
6. ch sh th th
7. qu ou oi ue er ar
 Alternative Spellings
• The alternative spellings of the vowel
sounds:
• Introduced as: Taught later as:
• ai rain ay ray a-e cake

• ee sleep ea leaf e-e theme

• oa boat ow blow o-e cone
 Storybooks
• Reading books to children gives them:

• A love of books
• A wider vocabulary
• A greater
understanding
of language
• But the children need to ‘crack the
code’ of English to become
independent readers
1. Learning the letter sound
• Sound
• Sound rather than name prevent from
muddling.
• Stories, songs, actions to have a fun
and child learning.
Confusion
Poor pronunciation
Spelling error
 Phonological Awareness
• Phonological awareness can be
encouraged from the very first
lesson:
2. Learning the letter formation
• Tripod grip
• Froggy legged movement
 3. Blending
• Aural blending
Blending through sound and word
flashcards
 Blending Harder Words

• Regular practice is the key to blending

words with digraphs and consonant blends:
 4. Identifying sounds in words/
Segmenting

• Sounding
• How many sounds
• Finding words from words
• Dictation
 Say and count the sounds
1. cat 8. sleep 15. shell
2. hand 9. barbecue 16. oil
3. nest 10. couch 17. rabbit
4. duck 11. book
5. rain 12. feather
6. wing 13. queen
7. goat 14. chain
 Dictation
• Dictation practice prepares the children
for independent writing:
• 42 Letter sounds
• Simple CVC words
• Regular words with
consonant blends and
digraphs
• Phrases and sentences
• Capital letters
Other fun techniques
• Sounding out words
n-e-s-t
• Word families
cat, mat, sat
• Removing the first
sound
pink – ink
mice - ice
• Chopping game
splash-plash-lash-ash-sh
Which of these pictures does not
have sound ‘b’ in it?
Names, sounds and formation
• A a
• B b
• C c
• D d
• E e
Capital letters

•Sentences start with a

capital letter
•End with a full stop

•Make sense
More of Consonant Blends

• Two consonant letters at the

beginning or end of a word.
• bulb, lamp, blend, clock, drum
• Initial and final consonant blends
 5. TRICKY WORDS
• Tricky words are words
that can not always be
worked out by
blending/sounding.
 Spelling techniques

• Look, copy, cover, write and

check
• Say as it sounds
• Mnemonics
• Identify tricky bits in words
Mnemonics is one of the fun
ways of learning how to spell
tricky words.

• Because: Big elephants can always

understand small elephants.
• Does: Daddy only eats sandwiches.
 Sounding and Spelling
• Sounding builds the foundation for
reading and writing unknown words.
• Spelling using letter names help
children to spell tricky words such as,
‘she’ instead of shee, consonant and
vowel sounds (soft ‘s’ sentence, sit,
egg, head..) and digraphs with the
alternatives (eg.tie, high).
Hints help us pronounce words
• Identify vowel sounds
• Digraphs and Diphthongs
• Schwa???
 schwa
Unstressed vowels
or
Lazy vowel sounds
 Examples of Schwa
• Free-dom, ba-con. al-bum
• 2 syllables
• The first is a stressed vowel sound.
• Mouth drops open further
While the second vowel sound is
unstressed/unaccented in a word.
• The cat is in the boat.
Supporting struggling children
Through continuous revision of
previously learnt sounds
Games
Regularly identify the tricky bit in
the words
 Provide extra practice sheets and
games
Suggested Time-table
If we are to have successful
classroom

Learner experience
Identifying problems
Attain all the 5 skills
 Thank You!!!
Blessed day!!!