Coaching Session 7 – Jolly Phonics as the Best English Curriculum

Time Stamps:

5:06     What is Jolly Phonics

7:58     Why using it in teaching english

10:44   Identifying Sounds in Words

11:08   Blending

11:20   Learning the letter Sounds

13:07   Tricky Words

19:58   Jolly resources (Music, Grammar, Decodable Books)

23:40   Conclusion: Aims to achieve in the First Nine Weeks

What Comes after the first 9 weeks?

 

Lesson Notes

  1. What is Jolly Phonics?
  2. Why use it in teaching English?
  3. Learning the Letter Sounds
  4. Learning Letter Formation
  5. Blending
  6. Identifying Sounds in Words
  7. Tricky Words
  8. Conclusion: Aims to Achieve in the First Nine Weeks
  9. What Comes After the First 9 Weeks?
  10. Jolly Resources (Music, Grammar, Decodable Books)

 

Adopted in 100+ Countries as endorsed by national leaders

Testimonial:  One Filipina Jolly Phonics Teacher Became Onsite & Online School Owner

 

What is Jolly Phonics?

Jolly Learning was founded in 1987 and started selling the first of the Jolly Phonics products five years later. It uses the synthetic phonics method of teaching the letter sounds in a way that is fun and multi-sensory, enabling children to become fluent readers. Since then we have been part of the remarkable transition that has made this kind of teaching mainstream around the world.

 

We not only publish materials for the teaching of literacy, but also for teaching music skills.

They are used in over 100 countries around the world with some adopting Jolly Phonics as government policy.

 

Jolly Learning is an independent British publisher and is owned by Christopher Jolly.

 

Although Chris chose the name of the company, the name Jolly Phonics was the choice of the authors!

 

Reference: https://www.jollylearning.co.uk/about-us/

 

Jolly Futures

Providing universal literacy in developing countries

Jolly Futures is an exciting and far reaching program. It delivers profound improvements in the ability to read and write to children in state schools in developing countries. It is giving them the basis for a much more fulfilling life.

 

Our Aim

It is children in state schools in developing countries who are most vulnerable to illiteracy. Jolly Futures provides a high quality literacy teaching program for entire state school systems in these countries so all children can be literate early in primary school.

 

We provide

Every child in the first year of school is provided with write-in Jolly Phonics Pupil Books, while their teacher is given extensive training, along with a Jolly Phonics Teachers’ Book. Jolly Phonics is a very enjoyable commercial program, used in schools around the world to achieve amazing results. In Jolly Futures this program is provided for free.

 

Language

Jolly Futures provides literacy just in English. This opens the world of information, travel and future job opportunities.

 

Reach

✰ In Nigeria, Jolly Futures has been adopted in all 36 states. Over 43,000 teachers and head teachers have been trained, and the teaching transformed for over 2.1 million pupils.

✰ In Ghana, Jolly Futures is being adopted in all 216 districts, with just over half having been completed. To date the training has been given to 10,000 teachers, and the teaching transformed for 250,000 pupils. See this Case Study on the difference made in one school in Accra.

✰ In Cameroon, Jolly Futures has been accepted for all the country. The first provision has been made in four cities.

✰ In Pakistan, Jolly Futures is being adopted in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, one of the four provinces. Training is being given to 45,000 teachers and the teaching transformed for 500,000 pupils.

✰ In India, Jolly Futures has been adopted in six districts in Tamil Nadu state. Training has been given to 10,000 teachers and the teaching transformed for 150,000 pupils.

✰ There are pilots of Jolly Phonics, in this program, in 10 other countries.

 

Value

Jolly Futures has provided 4,677,000 books to date, with a retail value of £9.1m. The training provided is harder to value, but would be of a similar order.

 

Management

The delivery of Jolly Phonics relies heavily on local teams, with training by local trainers. It is very effective, with high levels of motivation, working on a large scale, and with low costs.

 

Reference:: https://www.jollylearning.co.uk/about-us/jolly-futures/

 

Who is Jolly English for?

Jolly English is an English language course that has been carefully developed and sequenced for pre-school children who have little or no knowledge of English. It is a fun way for kids to discover new words and phrases using songs, games, chants and stories that bring the course to life and develop children’s English language. It is a program that grows with children.

 

Jolly Phonics is a fun and child centered approach to teaching literacy through synthetic phonics. With actions for each of the 42 letter sounds, the multi-sensory method is very motivating for children and teachers.

Why choose Jolly English?

It is a successful synthetic phonics program and transforms teaching to engage a range of learners. It has many hands-on activities that will motivate and support student learning and transform teaching. There are training options to suit one’s school.

 

Leading the teaching of Literacy

How Jolly Phonics works

Jolly Phonics is a comprehensive program, based on the proven, fun and multi-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 recognize 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. These are two of the five skills that children need to master phonics:

 

Jolly Grammar builds on the foundation of Jolly Phonics and its 5 Basic Skills

  1. 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.
  2. Learning letter formation: Using different multi sensory methods, children learn how to form and write letters.
  3. Blending: Children taught to blend the sounds together to read and write new words
  4. Identifying sounds in words Segmenting: Children are taught the 42 main letter sounds. This includes alphabet sounds as well as digraphs.
  5. Tricky words have irregular spellings and children learn these separately.

 

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

 

In Jolly Phonics Dictation, children sound out and spell words that the teacher dictates. A sound card is used as an aid to remember the correct spelling of sounds.

 

In Jolly Phonics, the Word Blending Boxes, developed by Jolly Author Sue Lloyd, are an invaluable resource for parents and teachers alike to help children practice blending with the letter sounds that they have learned.

 

Different ways to teach alternative spelling

  1. Let them get creative
  2. Write words out by hand
  3. Encourage reading
  4. Spell the word out loud
  5. Keep words on display
  6. Play games to practice
  7. Teach tap typing
  8. Explain mnemonics

 

5. 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).

 

Alongside these skills children are also introduced to the main alternative spelling of vowels. These five skills form the foundation that children build on with each year of grammar teaching. The children learn how to write sentences from dictation. The ultimate goal is for the children to be able to write independently. In other words, dictation enables children to write independently. Three quarters of the children can usually do a few sentences after one year of synthetic phonics teaching.

Reference: https://www.jollylearning.co.uk/jolly-phonics/

 

Music and Learning

In Jolly Music, through the repertoire of playground rhymes and songs, children learn to identify musical elements such as pulse, rhythm, pitch, loudness and speed. This learning is reinforced through physical actions, creative activities and musical games. The early years are heavily focused on hearing and identifying musical elements, and as time goes on children learn to perform music and even write their own simple rhythms. The lessons are structured to build key musical skills like listening, singing in tune, developing inner hearing, and ultimately reading and writing music.

 

Music and Literacy

Nursery rhymes and songs. “Preparing a child’s ear, voice, and brain for language”

 

Sound before Symbol

  • Training the ear comes before the children learn to read and write music.
  • They start with simple visual representations of pitch and rhythm.
  • The aim is for them to be able to hear what is written, and write what they hear. The nursery rhymes and songs prepare a child’s ear, voice and brain for language.

 

From known to unknown

Learning takes place in three stages:

  • unconscious experience (preparation)
  • making conscious (presentation)
  • Reinforcement (Practice)

 

Movement

  • Children learn best about pulse and rhythm through movement.
  • They perform the pulse through a variety of movements.
  • Through the many games, they learn to coordinate their movements with the music.

 

Music for EAL learners

Learners of English need to know where to place the stress in a word, and where the voice should rise and fall. Music can model these features of spoken language.

English as Additional Language (EAL) children who are shy about speaking may be surprisingly willing to sing! If you will be teaching a language, make singing as natural to speaking.

 

Making singing as natural speaking

  • Sing greetings (“Hello everyone!” “Goodbye, everyone”) and instructions (“Stand up!”, “Sit down”, etc.) are used throughout Jolly music.
  • They can be used in any classroom situation and are easily adapted to other words.

 

Music and personal development

  • A sense of achievement
  • Confidence and self-esteem
  • Self-expression and creativity
  • Teamwork & a sense of belonging
  • An outlet for relaxation

 

Music and Behavior

Quality music teaching contributes to the development of the whole child, producing improvements in:

  • self-confidence
  • communication and listening skills
  • concentration
  • co-ordination
  • co-operation

 

In Jolly Phonics Grammar, the materials provide guidance and resources to help teach grammar to children; it is active and multi-sensory, with emphasis on consolidating the children’s knowledge from Jolly Phonics and helping them develop an understanding of how grammar works.

 

As the leading synthetic phonics publisher, and the most experienced, Jolly Learning offers a 7-year school program that focuses on systematic teaching of phonics, grammar, spelling and punctuation across the school years. Jolly Phonics Teaching is multi-sensory and active, with fun actions, stories and songs. Independent research supports the outstanding results achieved around the world with the program. It continues to revise and extend children’s phonic knowledge. It is flexible and easy to implement in any school. It is developed by teachers for teachers.

 

The Jolly Phonics Readers are a series of decodable reading books which provide the best start for children just starting to read. At every stage the words are within reach of the children as they use their letter sound knowledge and the tricky words already taught. Each level of the readers builds on knowledge and skills previously learned so that they are able to practice blending until it is the automatic response to working out new words.

 

As the flagship program, Jolly Phonics, teaches children to read and write using synthetic phonics, which is widely recognized as the most effective way to teach children to read and write in English. Jolly Grammar teaches a wide range of language forms including the parts of speech, plurals, punctuation, and the tenses past, present, and future.

 

The Phonics Handbook is a complete resource for teaching reading, writing and spelling that provides a detailed guide to teaching the five key skills and are packed with photocopiable sheets.

 

How Jolly Phonics meets the aims of the national curriculum?

Jolly Phonics is a comprehensive literacy programme that meets the requirements of the National Curriculum for the Primary years. It is a highly effective teaching programme that will enable children to: read fluently, with understanding, spell and punctuate more accurately, have a wider vocabulary, produce better, more interesting pieces of writing, have a clearer understanding of how language works.

 

The English programme of study includes a continued emphasis on systematic synthetic phonics, including a progression in teaching. At all levels there is a focus on spelling, vocabulary, grammar and punctuation that should be included in the teaching. The guide identifies the key requirements of the National Curriculum, and colour codes them by when they are required to be taught. The list is detailed to reflect the learning objective of the subject, as given in the National Curriculum requirements.

 

Here is a success story of a Filipina who attended Jolly Phonics seminars and workshops in Brunei in 2005. She became the key teacher in Reading in kindergarten level where 100% of her students learned to read. In 2012, she went back to the Philippines to put up her own school and use the Jolly Phonics Reading Program. In her school’s Facebook posts as of February 2021, her school has kindergarten, Nursery 1 and 2 and plus home tutorials and online classes and training for teachers. She is the only Filipina Jolly Phonics Professional Trainer. She supports the Department of Education goal, “Every child a reader.” Anyone here would like to be recognized as a Jolly Phonics Professional Trainer and will also be an online teacher and trainer?

 

Blog on Jolly Phonics: https://ec-tokyo.life/2019/01/20/jolly-phonics-the-best-way-to-teach-learn-english/

 

Action Songs on YouTube:

Jolly Phonics 1: https://youtu.be/7ZADXfdWN1w
Jolly Phonics 2: https://youtu.be/UqSb_5oKJCs

Jolly Phonics 3: https://youtu.be/RZcyHrapov8

Jolly Phonics 4: https://youtu.be/a3xAH1AkHoI

Jolly Phonics 5: https://youtu.be/5yjQDZUexmo
Jolly Phonics 6: https://youtu.be/TYSFzAOjDmE

Jolly Phonics 1~7: https://youtu.be/qQdJNFb9S-Y

Jolly Phonics Group 1:  Blending & Public Reading:  https://youtu.be/-ADSZhr1vHk
Jolly Phonics Reading: 4-year old fast reader:  https://youtu.be/VbtRuiLAk7M
72 Tricky Words: https://youtu.be/ugEudhAdpWc
Jolly Phonics for a Japanese family: https://youtu.be/i4iOrU99fSs
Family learning together Jolly Phonics: https://youtu.be/11V1zXEn20Q (YouTube for kids)

 

Portfolio

OTC Portfolio 7

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Subject: OTC – Portfolio 7

 

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