Jolly Phonics is a multi-sensory approach for teaching letters and letter sounds.

There are five skills taught in the Jolly Phonics program.

 

1 . Learning the letter sounds
Children are taught the 42 main letter sounds. This includes alphabet sounds as well as digraphs such as sh, th, ai and ue.

2. Learning letter formation
Using different multi-sensory methods, children learn how to form and write the letters.

3. Blending
Children are taught how to blend the sounds together to read and write new words.

4. Identifying the sounds in words (Segmenting)
Listening for the sounds in words gives children the best start for improving spelling.

5. Tricky words
Tricky words have irregular spellings and children learn these separately.
 

​This is the order of how the sounds are introduced:

s, a, t, i, p, n

c/k, e, h, r, m, d

g, o, u, l, f, b

ai, j, oa, ie, ee, or

z, w, ng, v, oo (cook), oo (zoo)

y, x, ch, sh, th (thumb), th (this)

qu, ou, oi, ue, er, ar

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