Program Description

Jolly Phonics is a comprehensive programme, based on the proven, fun and muliti-sensory synthetic phonics method that gets children reading and writing from an early age. This means that we teach letter sounds as opposed to the alphabet. These 42 letter sounds are phonic building blocks that children, with the right tools, use to decode the English language. When reading a word, they recognise the letters and blend together the respective sounds; when writing a word they identify the sounds and write down the corresponding letters. These skills are called blending and segmenting. These are two of the five skills that children need to master phonics:

Cost

https://www.jollylearning.co.uk/product-category/uk-shop/phonics-resources/

Intended Population

• Core
• Intervention
• Intensified intervention

Grade

• Pre-K
• Elementary School
• Middle School

Intended Group Size

• Classroom

ELL/DLL

• Unspecified

Multisensory Applications

• Yes

Computer-Based Delivery

• Partial

Scripted

• Instructor Scripted

Comprehensive or Skill Specific

• Comprehensive

Placement Tests

• Unspecified

Advanced Placement

• Unspecified

Assessment to Monitor Skills Mastery

• No

Error Correction Built In

• No

Research Summary

There is limited peer reviewed research on the Jolly Phonics program. The two available studies reported that Jolly Phonics had positive outcomes on children's phonemic awareness and literacy skills.

Study Citations

Bowyer-Crane, C., Snowling, M. J., Duff, F. J., Fieldsend, E., Carroll, J. M., Miles, J., Gotz, K., & Hume, C. (2008). Improving early language and literacy skills: Differential effects of an oral language versus a phonology with reading intervention. The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49(4), 422-432.

Stuart, M. (1999). Getting ready for reading: Early phoneme and phonics teaching improves reading and spelling in inner-city second language learners. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 69, 587-605.

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)

• Promising practice

Additional Reviews

• https://www.rainbowresource.com/category/749/Jolly-Phonics.html