In the Jolly Phonics DVD, Inky Mouse shows her friends Snake and Bee how to read and write with the help of ??Phonic?? an old computer. The DVD (over two hours long) covers all the letter sounds and the five basic skills for reading and writing. Bonus material includes a fun activity for children, the Using Jolly Phonics footage for adults and a section explaining the letter sounds of English. Also includes a spoken guide to the letter sounds. Suitable for class or home use.

A programme that grows with your children

Our flagship programme, Jolly Phonics, teaches children to read and write using synthetic phonics, which is widely recognised as the most effective way to teach children to read and write in English. That was over 25 years ago. Since then our immense progress has been studied in numerous research projects, the results of which led to phonics becoming central to the UK curriculum. Today we are now used in over 100 countries worldwide. As the leading synthetic phonics publisher, and the most experienced, we offer a 7-year school programme that teaches not only phonics, but spelling, punctuation and grammar too.

• Systematic teaching of phonics, grammar, spelling and punctuation across the school years
• Teaching is multi-sensory and active, with fun actions, stories and songs
• Independent research supports the outstanding results achieved around the world with the programme
• Continues to revise and extend children??¢s phonic knowledge
• Flexible and easy to implement in your school
• Developed by teachers for teachers

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How Jolly Phonics works

Jolly Phonics is a comprehensive programme, based on the proven, fun and muliti-sensory synthetic phonics method that gets children reading and writing from an early age. This means that we teach letter sounds as opposed to the alphabet. These 42 letter sounds are phonic building blocks that children, with the right tools, use to decode the English language. When reading a word, they recognise the letters and blend together the respective sounds; when writing a word they identify the sounds and write down the corresponding letters. These skills are called blending and segmenting.

Learning the letter sounds:
Children are taught 42 letter sounds, which?is a mix of alphabet sounds (1 sound ??1 letter) and digraphs (1 sound ??2 letters) such as sh, th, ai and ue.??Using a multi-sensory approach each letter sound is introduced with fun actions, stories and songs.
We teach the letter sounds in 7 groups of 6 letters at a pace of 4-5 sounds a week. Children can start reading after the first group of letters have been taught and should have been introduced to all the 42 letter sounds after 9 weeks at school.

Learning letter formation:
This is taught alongside the introduction of each letter sound. Typically, children will learn how to form and write the letters letter down during the course of the lesson.

Blending:
Once the first few letter sounds are learnt, children begin blending the sounds together to help them read and write new words.?

Segmenting:
When children start reading words, they also need to start identifying the phonic components that make the word sound the way it does. By teaching blending and segmenting at the same time children become familiar with assembling and breaking down the sounds within words.

Tricky words
These are words with irregular parts, such as ??who??¢ and ??I?? Children learn these as exceptions to the rules of phonics. Introducing the common tricky words early in the year increases reading fluency (as they frequently occur in those first simple sentences you might expect them to read).