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Getting The Best From The Jolly Phonics Classroom Kit

Everything you need to teach Jolly Phonics in one box – digital tools, books, games and readers. Here’s how to get the best from each resource.

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Here is a quick video to introduce you to all the items within the kit from our head of training, Yvonne.

Within your Jolly Classroom kit you will find everything you need to get started with your pupils. Below you will find a guide for how to get the best from these resources along with useful links, videos and tips for filling your class with the fun that Jolly Phonics brings.

Jolly Classroom

Jolly Classroom is your all-in-one digital platform for teaching Jolly Phonics. With over 150 interactive lessons packed with songs, stories, flashcards, animations and worksheets, it makes lessons fun and easy to deliver. Each lesson comes with teaching notes, and you can choose fonts and audio to suit your class.

Step 1 builds the five core skills for reading and writing, while Steps 2 and 3 introduce alternative spellings, new tricky words, guided writing, spelling patterns and comprehension, helping children progress with confidence.

Jolly Phonics Handbook

The Jolly Phonics Handbook is essential reading. It covers the main principles of synthetic phonics and the five basic skills for reading and writing:

Each letter sound is introduced with a story and an action. Suitable words are provided for blending and dictation practice. Many photocopiable worksheets, activities and games are also available.

Learning the letter sounds
Learning letter formation
Blending – for reading
Identifying the sounds in words – for writing
Tricky words