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Santina DiMauro
www.jollyeducation.com.au
• Jolly Phonics is a multi-sensory program which caters
for children with varying capabilities.
• It has scientific research based evidence to support
its method and has been adopted throughout the
world.
International
Research
Clackmannanshire Research
A seven year study
• reading 3.6 yrs ahead of chronological age
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spelling 1.9 yrs ahead of chronological age
comprehension 3.5 months ahead
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boys reading 9.5 months ahead of girls
boys spelling 8.6 months ahead of girls
www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/education/ins17-asp
Research
“The Jolly Phonics children’s reading skills were 11 months
above the level expected for their age”
“The synthetic phonics classes outperformed
the whole language classes on 16 out of 19
reading and spelling measures”
“The results demonstrated that Jolly Phonics
produced effects that were long-lasting”
Jolly Phonics is a synthetic phonics program
which helps children to use the sounds of the English
language for reading and writing.
Synthetic Phonics
• A part to whole approach to reading.
• The alphabetic code is taught before expecting
children to read books.
• Teaches blending and segmenting using alphabetic
letter sounds and main digraphs.
Synthetic Phonics
• Teaches phonemic awareness so that all sounds in
words can be identified:
cat is c-a-t; bus is b-u-s; stop is s-t-o-p,
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Teaches main digraphs with blending and segmenting.
• Teaches tricky words – learning about tricky parts of
words.
Synthetic Phonics
• Use decodable texts initially. Other books given when
there is fluency and an ability to work out unknown
words.
• Blending used as the first strategy for unknown
words.
Analytic
Phonics
• A whole to part
approach. A top down
approach to reading.
• Begins with whole word sight vocabulary
and reading books.
• Uses picture, initial letter and
contextual cues for word recognition.
Analytic Phonics
• Uses text that is repetitive…
picture gives clue for the new word
introduced on the page.
• Alphabet letter sounds are introduced to
enable the initial letter cue for word
recognition.
• Digraphs are rarely taught.
Analytic Phonics
• Key sight words are memorised visually.
• Blending used at the last strategy instead
of the first.
• Word patterns covered at a later stage.
Understanding Synthetic Phonics
car
Understanding Synthetic Phonics
truck
Understanding Synthetic Phonics
worm
Understanding Synthetic Phonics
rainbow
Understanding Synthetic Phonics
spray
Understanding Synthetic Phonics
wombat
Understanding Synthetic Phonics
cube
Understanding Synthetic Phonics
little
Understanding Synthetic Phonics
fox
The Five Skills of Jolly Phonics
Tricky Words
Learning the Letter Sounds
Letter Formation
Identifying Sounds in Words
Blending and Segmenting
Learning the Letter Sounds
• Children are taught the main 42 letter sounds
(not just the sounds of the alphabet).
• Later they learn the alternative spellings of some
sounds (eg ay, a-e, ai)
The 42 Sounds
Learning the
letter sounds
Each sound is explored
with an action
Each sound is
introduced with a
story.
Songs and Puppets
Tactile work with
play dough,
Finger Phonics
Letter Sounds
Letter Formation
• Children are taught letter formation through a
tactile approach:
play dough
Air
writing
Finger
Phonics
Pencil
work
Letter Formation
• Children are taught letter formation through a
tactile approach:
Hair Gel
Tactile Bags
Tactile
Paint
Table
Sandpaper
Letters
Interactive
Whiteboard
Blending and Segmenting
• Children are taught to blend sounds together to read
new words.
• Children are taught to segment words to write words.
Identifying Sounds in Words
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Listening for sounds in words gives children
the best start for reading and writing.
Children tune into sounds anywhere in
words.
Children learn that words are made up of
a sequence of sounds.
Tricky Words
• These are words that have irregular
spellings.
• Jolly Phonics introduces children to 60
common words that are irregular.
Tricky Words
Adapted Tricky List
Tricky Words
• Reading:
Memory recall of words.
Say it as it sounds.
• Writing:
- look, cover, write and check
- Mnemonics
Tricky Words
Foundation to
reading and spelling
It is a prerequisite skill before children can
learn to associate sounds with letters and
manipulate sounds to blend words (during
reading) or segment words (during
spelling).
Listening to sounds in sequence.
 Clapping and counting sounds in
words:
c-a-t
b - ir - d
h - ou - se
x x x
x x x
x x x
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Listening to sounds anywhere in words.
Playing around with sounds.
Blending and segmenting sounds in words
Understanding sounds in sequence…
Understanding sounds in sequence…
Guess My Picture
This activity helps children develop blending without the
visual picture cue.
Teaching Jolly Phonics
Words Banks
Sound Exploration
Blending Activities
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Miming: children use actions and
segment a word for others to blend
(segmenting and blending activity)
Pointing to letter symbols on board.
Children blend sounds and say whole
word.
Read and See Books
Sound Flip Cards
Blending and Segmenting Activities
• Miming: using actions to create a word.
• It helps children with both blending and
segmenting skills.
p
ar
k
….park
• After the first group of six sounds, the
children can blend sounds to read
approximately 43 words.
Word Banks - Blending
• As a new sound is introduced more words
can be made by blending the sounds
together.
• Begin with simple words of two, three and
four sounds.
• Increase the level of difficulty as the children
become better at blending and
segmenting.
Blending Activities
• Pointing to letters one by one.
h
n
a
i
p
t
f
s
Blending Activities
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Read and See Books
Blending Activities
Identifying Sounds in Words
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Flips can help children with:
- blending
- segmenting
- specific sounds
- beginning, middle and end sounds
What we should be doing after group 1?
Play games to encourage the skill of
blending.
 Use the actions to create words.
 Point to sound symbols for children to
blend together.
 Read simple words of two, three or
four sounds.
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What we should be doing after group 1?
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Segmenting: show how these sounds
are represented with symbols to create
that word in print.
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Send home Sounding Out Word Boxes
(Adapted as Sounding Out Folders).
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Send home first list of Tricky Words.
Jolly Phonics -A Yearly Plan
Term 1
Term 2
Jolly Phonics
•42 Sounds
•Blending
•Segmenting
•Tricky Words
•Reading and Writing
Term 3
Term 4
• Revise 42 sounds
• Explore alternative
digraphs – the advanced
code
•Explore vowels –
the vowel box
•Initial consonant blends;
•Advanced Phonemic
Awareness
•Reading and Writing
Introducing Digraphs
Two or more letters making one sound.
Learning Sounds
Alternative Vowel Sounds
Introduced as:
Alternatives later taught:
• ai (rain)
ay (day)
• ee (feet)
ea (sea)
• oa (boat)
ow (snow) o-e (bone)
a-e (cake)
Teaching Digraphs
Teaching Digraphs
• Word Bank
Place the digraph spellings in a different colour.
Other not so common spellings are placed in a
‘tricky column’.
Advanced Sound Awareness
• Vowel Box Activity.
Advanced Sound Awareness
Chopping Game
Reducing a word – one phoneme at a time
blend, lend, end, nd, d
crust, rust, ust, st, t
trace, race, ace, s
forgive, orgive, give, iv, v
Advanced Sound Awareness
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Playing around with sounds.
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Word Families/Rhyming words
Beginning to Read and Write
• Mystery Reading Sentences
• Guided Writing Sentences
After the first six sounds s a t i p n and the first group of
tricky words you can begin to guide the children
through the reading and writing process.
Using The Jolly Readers in your
Classroom
• The text in each reader should NOT be
memorised.
• When children memorise text they regularly fail
to attend to the letters and the sounds within a
word.
• It is important not to introduce the Readers until
the 42 sounds, blending and the first list of tricky
words have been taught.
Jolly Readers
Jolly Readers
Level 3
Level 2
Level 1
Inky Mouse and friends
General Fiction
Nonfictions
Jolly Readers
Books
per pack
Level 4
6
Pages per Tricky words Alt Spellings
book
per book
per book
16
Sentences
per page
61
18
4
Level 3
6
16
40
4
4
Level 2
6
12
20
0
2
11
0
1
Level 1
6
8
Use the information which the children
know to create simple texts.
• Letter sounds
• Blending
•Tricky words
Suitable Text
• Group 1 sounds / several tricky words
Nat
Nat is an ant.
Nat sat in the tin.
A pin is in the tin.
The pin is in Nat.
Suitable Text
• Group 3 and several tricky words
The Black Rat
I’m a rat.
I’m a black rat.
I can spin on a mat.
I can flip on a mat.
I’m a big, black rat.
Reading Groups
• Reading is effective if your class can be
organised into small groups.
• Menu Board Activities are planned so that one
group can work with the teacher (Guided
Reading) while the others are working
independently.
Mon
Group 1
Tue
Wed
Thur
Guided Reading
T
Sentence
Construct
BingoTricky Words
Peer Reading
Group2
Tweety Birds
Peer Reading
Guided Reading
T
Sentence
Construct
BingoTricky Words
Group 3
Bugs Bunny
BingoTricky Words
Peer Reading
Guided Reading
T
Sentence
Construct
Mickey Mouse
Menu Board Activities
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Activities are adapted according to the level of the
children.
Examples of Activities
Magnetic Letters.
Sentence Construction – children paste words to
form a sentence. These can be based on the
readers the children have read earlier.
Bingo (tricky words, phonetic words based on
digraphs/alternative spellings).
Sentence and picture matching.
Find-a- Word: based on tricky words and regular
phonetic words.
Dictionary work: using words from the readers.
Cloze passages: choose the correct word to
complete each sentence.
Reading Menu Board
Today is Tuesday
Tweety Birds
Mickey Mouse
Magnetic
letters to
practise
segmenting
Reading with
Miss DiMauro
Bugs Bunny
Independent Writing
• Writing should begin as early as possible.
Encourage independent writing as early as
you can in term one.
Don’t over rely on teacher scribing.
Encourage the use of sounds and tricky words
when modelling the writing process.
Each child has a sound mat of the 42 sounds
and a tricky word mat to refer to when writing.
Magic Writing….
…to independent
writing
Fred
6 year old
Samer
5 year old
Priscilla
5 year old
Writing - Dictation
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Dictation is a powerful writing tool to
help children develop their writing skills.
Dictation words and sentences are NOT
for children to memorise.
Dictation includes:
- sound symbols;
- simple words that can be segmented;
- some tricky words;
- simple sentences
Weekly Programming
Mon
Tue
Wed
9 -9.30
Reading
9.3010
1010.30
Phonics
10.30 11
Handwriting
Writing
Thur
Fri
Handwriting
Text
types
Your Phonics Lesson…three sounds per week
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thur
Fri
Learning
the sounds
Story /e/
Word Bank.
Song.
Story /h /
Word Bank
Song
Story /r /
Word Bank
Song
Revise sounds
Letter
formation
Tactile book
or
Play dough
Sandpaper
letters
Writing /e/ on
board
Tactile book
or
Play dough
Sandpaper
letters
Writing /h/ on
board
Tactile book
or
Play dough
Sandpaper
letters
Writing /r/ on
board
Worksheet
Match pictures
to correct
symbols (initial
sounds)
Write/e/,
/h/,/r/
symbols;
Blending
and
Segmenting
Blend and segment sounds to create words using
sounds learned so far.
Use flashcards to create words.
Group work
based on:
*gamesBlending and
segmenting;
Sound/symbol
Recognition;
Tricky word
recall;
*TactilePlay dough
Sandpaper
letters
Tuning into
Sounds
Sorting: pictures that have
/e/sound; /h/ sound and /r/ sound.
Tricky
words
what
want who
why
put saw
so far.
Match Game:
Blend sounds
to create
words. Match
words to
pictures.
Whiteboards
Your Phonics Lesson…four sounds per week
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thur
Fri
Learning the
sounds
Story /e/
Word Bank.
Song.
Story /h/
Word Bank.
Song.
Story /r/
Word Bank
Song
Story /m/
Word Bank.
Song.
Letter
formation
Tactile book
or
Play dough
Tactile book/
Sandpaper
letters
Tactile book
or
Play dough
Tactile book/
Sandpaper
letters
Writing /e/ on
whiteboards.
Worksheet:
(a) Writing /e/
and /h/
Writing /r/ on
whiteboards.
Worksheet:
(a) Writing /r/
and /m/
Revise all
sounds so far.
Group work
based on:
*gamesBlending and
segmenting;
Sound/symbol
Recognition;
Tricky word
recall;
*TactilePlay dough
Sandpaper
letters
Blending and
Segmenting
Tuning into
Sounds
Tricky words
Blend and segment sounds to
create words. Use flashcards to
create words.
Sorting: pictures that have
/e/sound; /h/ sound.
Worksheet: (b) match pictures
to correct initial sound symbol.
what
want who
Blend and segment sounds to
create words. Children write
words on whiteboards.
Sorting: pictures that have /r/
sound; /m/ sound.
Worksheet: (b) write missing
initial sounds for given pictures.
why
put saw
Whiteboards
First Year Timetable
First part of year
Second part of year
Last part of year
1
Teach 42 sounds
Introduce letter names
Teach alternative spellings
Revise alternative spellings
2
Teach how to form
letters correctly
Teach handwriting rules, capital
letters, and give writing
practice
Give handwriting practice
3
Teach how to blend simple
regular words
Introduce Jolly Readers
Blending practice with
alternative spellings
Continue with Jolly Readers
and blending practice
4
Teach how to write words by
listening for sounds
Dictation – words and
sentences
Independent writing
Independent writing
Continue dictation practice
5
Teach how to read and spell
a few tricky words
Reading and spelling of
more tricky words
First 60 tricky words taught
Assessment
• Recognition of 42 sounds.
• Reading regular words (blending)
• Writing regular words (segmenting)
• Reading and writing irregular words.
• Reading books fluently with comprehension.
• Writing independently.
First year checklist
Knows sounds
Blends regular words
with these sounds
Writes regular words
with these sounds
s a t i p n
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ai j oa ie ee or
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ay ea igh ow ew
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Knows sound
Knows name
Forms correctly
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Alphabet – lower case letters
Alphabet – capital letters
Sings/recites
Knows
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Alphabet order
1-10
Able to read tricky words
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Able to spell tricky words
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11-20
21-30
31-40
41-50
51-60
Assessment
• Phonemic awareness with the emphasis
on sounds in sequence for blending and
segmenting.
• Phonemic awareness of auditory
discrimination of sounds anywhere in a
word not just initial sounds.
Assessment Checklist
Correct
Incorrect
Incorrect
response
c-u-p
s-a-t
m-u-d
r-ai-n
d-i-sh
s-u-n
Words are orally segmented by teacher. Child blends
the sounds to say whole word.
Assessment
• Nonsense words: the purpose of using such
words is to determine the type of reading
strategy a child is using.
Is blending a strategy being used?
Correct
Incorrect
Incorrect Response
fap
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pan
blet
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black
cog
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Activities need to involve simple blending tasks
– ‘s-u-n’ choose correct picture; ‘f-i-sh’ choose correct picture;
- start blending loudly and then softly as you get to end of word;
How could Preschool/Child Care benefit
from the Jolly Phonics
Program?
Jolly Phonics in Pre-School
• Learning all the 42 sounds through a variety
of multi-sensory methods.
- Jolly Songs
- Jolly Stories
- Tactile activities
• Exploring each sound over a 12 month
period focusing on one sound each week.
Jolly Phonics in Pre-School
• Becoming tuned into the sounds that occur in
simple words.
• Becoming skilled with the aural blending and
aural segmenting of simple words.
Jolly Phonics Scope and Sequence
3 year olds
• One sound per week
is explored using
actions; Jolly Stories;
Jolly Songs; Finger
Phonics Books
(NB digraphs should not
be omitted)
• Focus: initial sounds;
• Pencil manipulation;
4 year olds
5 year olds
• 42 sounds covered at
a pace of 2-3 sounds
per week (Big Books);
•Aural blending and
aural segmenting;
•Blending and
segmenting using
symbols;
•Listening for sounds
within words;
•Correct letter
formation;
•Introduce several
tricky words
• 42 sounds covered at
a pace of 3-5 sounds
per week (Interactive
Software);
•Aural blending and
segmenting using
actions;
•Blending and
segmenting using
symbols;
•Manipulating sounds in
words; vowel box
•Correct letter
formation;
•Introduce all tricky
words;
•Reading and writing
simple sentences;
Santina
sldimauro@bigpond.com
www.jollyeducation.com.au