Jolly Phonics Overview
Developing Letter Sounds & Phonemic Awareness (Virtual Tour)
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 1: Beginning LiteracyAges:
4-6
Grade Range:
PreK KFood Groups:
Primary: Letter Sounds & Phonics, Phonemic Awareness
Transcript
The Jolly Phonics Program has five main parts to it. The children are learning: letter sounds, letter formation, blending those letters in order to start reading. They're identifying sounds and words, and being able to spell words also. And the last component is they may not be able to sound out all of the words that they need, so there are some tricky words that the children are taught within the Jolly Phonics Program as well.
Activity Objective
The goal of The Jolly Phonics Approach: Developing Letter Sounds and Strengthening Phonemic Awareness (Virtual Tour) is to use a method introduced by Sara Wernham and Sue Lloyd to help create an awareness of the individual sounds in spoken words and how these correspond to written letters.
Quick Tips
Additional Comments:
- Continue to emphasize the sounds students are learning throughout the year and refer to them as they come up in different activities.
- A systematic and explicit approach to teaching phonics in the early stages of literacy development is important to a student's development of basic reading and spelling skills.
- Explicitly teaching phonics through an interactive and action-based program helps students become motivated for literacy.
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