What next after Jolly Phonics?

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DS has clicked with jolly phonics and the alternative sounds but we have found that he now needs to know more alternative spellings than jolly phonics covers (eg 'c' as a 's' sound, like ice) to be able to read his reading books. Can anyone recommend a system for doing this or a follow on program to jolly phonics, so that we know which variations on the sounds to point out to him rather than it just becoming 'look and say' rather than phonics.

Is he in school? In some schools the government's Letters & Sounds phonics programme is taught. Other schools have bought their own commercial phonics programmes.

I didn't have a phonics programme I just let my daughter work the sounds out for herself. Incidentally, the c sounding like s happens when c is followed by e,i,y. It's also the case with g sounding like j. But there are lots of exceptions in the g/e,i,y case and not that many with c/s.

Good luck.

There are various phonic readers that cover the sounds. Our school uses RWI, and DS got on fine with it, but there are lots of different ones. I think someone recommend Jelly and Bean the other day as being a good one www.jellyandbean.co.uk/.