Reception - is it worth buying the Jolly Phonics books?

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Ds1 is doing the jolly phonics stuff at school. We have to practice it all with him but he seems to be picking it up really quickly and easily and isn't needing much practice.

Anyway - just wondering what anyone thinks about buying the workbooks - is it worth it or do they just get through them so quickly that it's not. Just wondering how much time I really need to spend with him on this out of school.

Buy the Jolly Phonics books - they are SO worth it! My son has learnt to read using Jolly Phonics and one of the most helpful things I found was on their website - www.jollylearning.co.uk. Go to the messageboard, all the way back to May 2003 to a pody called "JP Steps". This tells you what to teach and in what order to teach it and I found it SO helpful.

I cannot praise JP highly enough. My boy used it with his Speech Therapist to remediate articulation and phonological problems. He also learnt to read using it because from the work done with the Speech Therapist he knew all his 42 sounds so could sound out words in his reading books. He is one of the best readers in his class, even though he has speech problems and is one of the youngest in the class. He's in Year 1 now.

I haven't read the thread, sorry, but just saw the title and wanted to say BUY IT, it's fab! I am using the Finger Phonics books with ds2 (who is 3) and the video and he is enjoying it too.

Brilliant, thanks for that ChocolateGirl - I'm really hopeful now that he's going to pick this reading lark up very quickly!

dd1 has never done phonics and they dont do it at her school

dd2 (2) has just started it at kindergarten and now says 'look sammy snake and inky mouse ' and she knows the sounds of the letters.