Jolly Phonics in Melbourne

20/12/2022

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxx7hs0qdKQ

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently helping our 1st grade daughter through distance learning. This has opened our eyes to the ways that kids are b...

25/03/2022

Thank you Dr Tina Daniel!

Federal acting education minister Stuart Robert blames teachers for the decline in Australian students’ academic results. Meanwhile, primary school students in this state are denied scientifically proven phonics-based reading education.

25/03/2022

https://youtu.be/_12Z3Lg8F-U

Live stream for the Right to Read inquiry report release | La diffusion en direct du point de presse du rapportThe Right to Read inquiry report highlights ho...

15/03/2022

Need that word book everyday when teaching phonics! Especially helpful with dictation.

12/03/2022

13/12/2021

Are you heading down Jolly Street?
Jolly Phonics in Melbourne Training, 2022

Upcoming dates for full-day, Zoom Jolly Phonics training with practical application for teachers, teacher's aides, speech pathologists, psychologists, and enthusiastic parents. Really anyone interested in systematic, synthetic phonics!

Monday the 14th of February
Friday the 11th of March
Monday the 4th of April

Limited numbers and spots are filling fast. To book, contact Jolly Phonics in Melbourne on
0403 594 826 or email [email protected].

Merry Christmas!

Jacqui has been a primary school teacher for over 15 years and has been practising the Jolly Phonics program for over 13 years. She has trained with many schools in Melbourne and is always happy to discuss systematic, synthetic phonics with you!

04/12/2021

The Simple View of Reading.

In 1986, Whole Language, a philosophy for teaching reading that rejected systematic phonics, was approaching peak popularity. The two founders of Whole Language, Ken Goodman and Frank Smith, had little patience for decoding, that is, for matching a sound with each letter (or letter group) in a word....

18/11/2021

Please support!

* IMPORTANT POST - PLEASE READ *

Sadly, despite the fact that children who are at risk of reading difficulties can be identified as early as Prep, rarely does this occur. Far too many children slip through the cracks and either don't receive timely intervention or, as is the case more often than we'd care to admit, never receive the support that they so desperately need. These children go on to become teens who - after years of daily struggle in the classroom - experience school refusal, disengagement, school exclusion, anxiety, depression and self-harm at much higher rates than other young people. By this stage, their self-esteem is destroyed and their learning difficulties are buried under a raft of more pressing concerns.

This heartbreak is entirely preventable, and we all have a moral obligation to do all that we can to prevent it from happening!

Please take 1 minute out of your day and join us in signing this important legislative council e-petition to mandate the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check in Victoria. https://bit.ly/3oyksJQ

A simple screening check conducted in Year 1 has been shown, both in the UK and here in Australia (go SA!), to lead to significant gains in student outcomes, and highlights the importance of explicit, systematic synthetic phonics instruction in the development of confident and competent readers.

Huge thanks to Jacqui Tarquinio for leading this e-petition and advocate extraordinaire Heidi Gregory of Dyslexia Victoria Support for putting together the poster below.

07/11/2021

Some wonderful ideas!

Many teachers have already reorganized our leveled libraries because we learned that, according to Fountas and Pinnell, “levels have no place in classroom libraries.” Sorting books into bins labeled by theme or topic is time-consuming, but it’s not a difficult task. We immediately see that off...

03/10/2021

A must watch!

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