Jolly Phonics
Blending Sounds for Reading (Virtual Tour)
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 1: Beginning LiteracyAges:
4-6
Grade Range:
PreK KFood Groups:
Primary: Phonemic Awarenes, Letter Sounds & Phonics
Transcript
The children are given sound cards, which are individual letters, and they can sit at their own desks and use those letters that we've learned to form words. They play games with them, independently, but also share them with their friends at their desks.
Activity Objective
The goal of Jolly Phonics: Blending Sounds for Reading (Virtual Tour) is to use a method introduced by Sara Wernham and Sue Lloyd to help students blend sounds to make and read words.
Quick Tips
Additional Comments:
- Playing with the individual sounds in spoken words through various activities, such as comparing words to see if the first sound matches, breaking words into their sounds, switching single sounds in words, builds a strong foundation for reading.
- Continue to emphasize the sounds students are learning throughout the year and refer to them as they come up in different activities.
- A systematic and explicit approach to teaching phonics in the early stages of literacy development is important to a student's development of basic reading and spelling skills.
- Explicitly teaching phonics through an interactive and action-based program helps students become motivated for literacy.
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