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What is Jolly Phonics?

Whether you are a parent, teacher or student, these useful information sheets will give you a detailed explanation of the Jolly Phonics programme and the literacy skills it teaches.

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Activities and Worksheets

Crossword Challenge

This crossword challenge is perfect for developing your child’s pencil skills as well as their problem-solving skills.

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Colouring Worksheets

Jolly Phonics Colouring Sheets

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Plurals Challenge

This plurals challenge is perfect for developing your child’s understanding of plurals.

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Word Blending Boxes

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

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Personal Pronoun Challenge

This personal pronoun challenge is perfect for developing your child’s understanding of personal pronouns.

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Jolly Phonics Finger Puppets

These wonderful finger puppets are a brilliant way to encourage children to learn to read and write!

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Adverb Challenge

This adverb challenge is perfect for developing your child’s understanding of adverbs.

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Phonics Colouring Challenges

These phonics colouring challenges are perfect for developing your child’s letter sounds skills.

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Proofreading a Story Sheets

These proofreading sheets are perfect for developing your child’s grammar and punctuation skills.

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Writing Prompts Sheets

These writing prompts sheets are perfect for developing your child’s story development and writing skills.

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    Audio and Video Resources

    5 Key Skills: Learning Letter Formation

    This short video shows how learning letter formation in Jolly Phonics can be introduced to children.

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    Orange Level Readers Video

    These readers provide a gradual and structured start for children still learning how to read, with each set of books introducing a new set of letter sounds.

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    Group Six Letter Sounds

    Listen to the Group One Letter Sounds of Jolly Phonics, spoken in British English. Perfect for parents, teachers and children who aren't sure how to pronounce the letter sounds.

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    5 Key Skills: Learning the Letter Sounds

    This short video shows how the letter sounds in Jolly Phonics can be introduced to children.

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    Group Three Letter Sounds

    Listen to the Group Three Letter Sounds of Jolly Phonics, spoken in British English. Perfect for parents, teachers and children who aren't sure how to pronounce the letter sounds.

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    Group Four Letter Sounds

    Listen to the Group Four Letter Sounds of Jolly Phonics, spoken in British English. Perfect for parents, teachers and children who aren't sure how to pronounce the letter sounds.

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    Group Seven Letter Sounds

    Listen to the Group Seven Letter Sounds of Jolly Phonics, spoken in British English. Perfect for parents, teachers and children who aren't sure how to pronounce the letter sounds.

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    5 Key Skills: Tricky Words

    This short video shows how Tricky Words in Jolly Phonics can be taught to children.

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    What is Jolly English?

    This short video highlights the resources that are contained within the Jolly English Teacher's Kit, and provides a preview of inside contents.

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    Group Two Letter Sounds

    Listen to the Group Two Letter Sounds of Jolly Phonics, spoken in British English. Perfect for parents, teachers and children who aren't sure how to pronounce the letter sounds.

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      Informational Resource Flyers

      Jolly Learning Ltd Branding Guidelines

      The Jolly Learning Ltd Branding Guidelines discuss the use of Jolly Learning Brand Assets.

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      New Pupil/Student and Teacher’s Books Flyer

      These new editions of our core teaching resources have been refreshed and updated with a new look and feel.

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      Our World Readers Purple Level 5 Flyer

      Jolly Phonics Our World nonfiction readers are fully decodable books for new readers.

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      New Read and See Flyer

      These books contain one word on a page, with a picture on the next page to see if they are correct. The word is shown again in sound dots underneath the picture.

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      Jolly Classroom Flyer

      Jolly Classroom is our brand-new digital platform designed for teaching Jolly Phonics in the classroom!

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      New Jolly Phonics Workbooks Flyer

      These new editions have been refreshed and updated with a new look and feel.

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      Our World Readers Yellow Level 2 Flyer

      These readers have a very carefully controlled vocabulary and are specifically designed for children who are learning to read and write with Jolly Phonics.

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      Little Word Books Flyer

      The Little Word Books have a very carefully controlled vocabulary and are specifically designed for children who are learning to read and write with Jolly Phonics.

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      Jolly English Flyer

      We are delighted to introduce you to our Jolly English programme, a new English language course for preschool children with little or no knowledge of English.

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      Brand New Resources

      Towards the end of 2020, we were delighted to release new editions of our Jolly Phonics Pupil and Teacher’s Books, whilst we also announced the release of two brand new sets of readers: Little Word Books and Our World Level 5 Readers.

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        Jolly Phonics Extra - for Struggling Children

        Jolly Phonics Extra

        Jolly Phonics Extra gives extra help for children learning to read. It takes innovation in literacy teaching to a new level, being highly effective as a result.

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          Phonics & Literacy Teaching Guides and Assessments

          US Phonics Assessments

          There are six formal assessments for you to use (BOY/MOY/EOY assessments and progress monitoring). Each one comes with comprehensive teacher guidance, a record sheet and materials to administer the assessment.

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          UK Phonics Assessments Sheets and Checklists

          These assessment sheets are perfect for identifying where your children are throughout the first year of their phonics journey! There are six half-termly assessments for you to use. Each assessment is accompanied by a checklist for teachers.

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          Handy Tricky Word Lists

          This Handy Tricky Word list gives you a helpful breakdown of the Tricky Words in the six levels of the Jolly Readers.

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          Jolly Phonics Readers And Book Bands

          This handy 2-page leaflet gives vital information on the Jolly Phonics Readers and how they fit in with non-decodable reading schemes and the book bands.

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          National Curriculum FAQs

          National-Curriculum-FAQs We regularly get questions about the relationship between current and past curriculums and guidance provided to maintained schools in England.

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          Phonics Sample Lessons

          Our phonics sample lesson is filled with fully annotated information—lesson plans, detailed teacher’s notes and photocopiable worksheets and resources—to show you just how easy and fun it is to use Jolly Phonics.

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          Why Choose Jolly Phonics?

          Jolly Phonics is so much more than letters and sounds!

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          Jolly Phonics Actions

          Handy sheets showing all the 42 letter sounds and their associated actions.

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          Parent Teacher Guides

          The Parent/Teacher Guide provides background information on the Jolly Phonics programme and also suggests products that would be suitable for use in the home.

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          Jolly Phonics Certificates

          Celebrate your students’ achievements with Jolly Phonics Certificates! These can be awarded upon the completion of each stage of the programme. Choose from vibrant colour or classic black and white options to suit your preference.

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            Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation Sample Lesson

            Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation Sample Lessons

            Our grammar, spelling and punctuation sample lesson is designed to show how a synthetic and progressive approach using the Jolly Phonics & Grammar programme will enable you to develop children’s learning as they become confident readers and writers.

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