teaching kids jolly phonics

Teaching Jolly Phonics involves a systematic approach to help children learn letter sounds and develop strong reading and writing skills. Here are the key steps:

Learning the Letter Sounds:

Introduce the 42 sounds in Jolly Phonics, which include 26 letters and digraphs (two letters that make one sound).

Teach each sound using a memorable story and an associated action. These sounds are grouped to facilitate word formation.

Letter Formation:

Focus on teaching children how to write the letters. Start by mastering the pencil grip.

Use multi-sensory techniques, such as drawing letters in the air or using tactile tools.

Blending:

Teach children to blend individual sounds together to form words. They say the sounds separately and then run them together to create a complete word.

Introduce blending with digraphs for more complex words.

Segmenting:

This skill involves identifying sounds within words (the reverse of blending).

Children break down words into individual sounds, converting sounds back into letters.

Tricky Words:

Some words cannot be segmented and blended easily due to irregular phonetics.

Teach these tricky words as whole units, emphasizing whole-word recognition.

The Six Phases of Jolly Phonics:

Phase 1: Focuses on listening, vocabulary, and speaking skills. Children explore sounds around them, play vocabulary games, and learn rhymes.

Phase 2: The core learning begins. Children learn the first 19 sounds and their corresponding letters and actions.

Remember, Jolly Phonics is a child-centered approach that makes learning literacy fun and effective! ️