help me understand jolly!! phonics

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must admit dont fully understand it so not sure how i help my dc to read.

anyone reccomend a good website /book or help me out here?

too silly to ask at school

thanks

Jolly Learning . There should be a Parent's Guide available on line or you can get it in Waterstones, Amazon, elc etc.

You can get the teachers book on Amazon.

Have you tried jolly learning ? I think I used it when I first needed to know and it explains the basics

thank you will look atthis website

its so hard all this stuff

Have the school issued you with any leaflets ? We got a great one from DS school. Also, the school are running meetings on numbers / letters and how they teach them ie the crazy world of jolly phonics ! in a couple of weeks.

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Try www.jollylearning.co.uk it has details on teaching jolly phonics, products you can buy etc. I'm suprised dc's school haven't given you a parents guide.

Basically what jolly phonics teaches is that every letter sound has an action Eg Aa- Ants going up my arm, Bb- Bat (you make a batting action with your arms) Cc- Clicking casternets etc.
This helps children learn letter sounds by placing an image in their mind.

Early Learning Centre also sell jolly phonics products so you could ask them for advice.

they have sent a handout with the movements which made no sense at all but having looked at the website it now does!

will give it a new go when reading to dcs

thanks

Listen to the sounds here www.educationtakeaway.com/shop/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=69&idproduct=12

Jolly Phonics is designed to be used as a synthetic phonics programme. The following webpage gives a complete explanation of synthetic phonics and why it's the best way to teach children to read:

www.aowm73.dsl.pipex.com/dyslexics/main_method_3.htm

i'd like to know why it is called jolly and not just phonics. did someone called jolly make up this variation? or is it just a silly name? is there a jolly corporation making a million out of this?

I don't know about it being jolly but IME it is effective. DS1 & 2 learnt with a combination of methods then for DS3 the school had changed to jolly phonics and despite being an August birthday he has learnt much more quickly and I do think its down to the method.

Once you get the hang of the actions its not too difficult and even now that DS3 is in YR2 I still use them occasionally if he's stuck.

I think its great! I use it with my child minding children when we sings songs and play games and even the two year olds picked it up. All the three year olds became very confident and loved the actions and songs. They do have a dvd available which helps the children but it is quite weird and seems really old fashioned in style?!

Chris Jolly runs the small publishing company which produces Jolly Phonics.

He's certainly not as rich as some of the publishing firms such as OUP who produce the vile whole language publication ORT, and even they have hedged their bets recently and bought Ruth Miskin's synthetic phonics programme.

There is nothing wrong with earning one's living through selling an excellent product.

Oh, sorry if I sounded like I was criticising the dvd. I didn't mean it to sound like that! I love it and so do my children. I couldn't think of a better way to introduce phonics that would work so well. Absolutely no problem with it, I just know some people would want something a bit more hi-tech (not me!).

triggerfish, I was responding to 'fishie', not you .

I agree the JP DVD seems old fashioned, but little children always love it in my experience.

Have you seen the new Jolly Phonics CD ROM of interactive games? It really is very good.

maverick I hate JP with a passion but I'm interested in the CD Rom interactive thingy. Where can you get it? My ds does JP at school but Letterland at home (once he has done his JP h/w). Letterland have an excellent interactive computer game so I'd be very interested if JP do something similar.

The CD ROM is on page 4 of their catalogue

jollylearning.co.uk/2008%20Catalogue.pdf

Early Learning shops may stock it.

Thanks maverick! I engaged my brain after I posted and found it on Amazon. Should arrive tomorrow.

IMO JP far superior to letter Land. Most schools thankfully have phased out letterland.

The kinesthetic approach (doing things - in this case actions) really helps to engage boys and it also instils the correct phonic sound e.g rubbing your tummy is a cue to the correct phoneme 'mmmmmmm' and stops people saying 'muh'

I'm a T.A. in a reception class and we teach jolly phonics, I'm not saying I know it all but if you have any questions i would be happy to try and help you. You have already been given loads of fab advice though