Jolly Phonics
Teaching Letter Formation (Virtual Tour)
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 1: Beginning LiteracyAges:
4-6
Grade Range:
PreK KFood Groups:
Primary: Letter Sounds & Phonics, Writing Conventions
Transcript
The children are given an opportunity to put letters within a book, and within that book they learn how to form the letters. And they come up with words that may have those letter sounds in them, and they write the word through sounding them out, and they draw a picture that goes along with them.
Activity Objective
The goal of Jolly Phonics: Teaching Letter Formation (Virtual Tour) is to use a method introduced by Sara Wernham and Sue Lloyd to explicitly teach handwriting and appropriate letter-formation and provide effective opportunities to practice.
Quick Tips
Additional Comments:
- Modeling letter formation is an effective tool to teach skills in letter formation.
- Keep a tracking list of students progress throughout the year.
- 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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