Jolly Phonics Myanmar

Jolly Kids Books (JKB) is a leading company for English Phonics and Grammar training from Thailand. [email protected]

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Step 1: Ensure Letter Sound FluencyBefore children can blend, they need to know the sounds of the letters automatically. Jolly Phonics teaches 42 main letter sounds divided into 7 groups.Action & Story: Use the specific Jolly Phonics action and storyline for each sound to help children recall the sound instantly.Flashcard Fluency: Flash the letter cards (like s, a, t, i, p, n) and ensure the child can produce the sound within a second without hesitation.

Step 2: Start with Oral Blending (No Print)Before asking children to look at letters, train their ears. This is called phonemic awareness.The "I Spy" Game: Say, "I spy with my little eye a $/\text{b}/ - /\text{e}/ - /\text{d}/$."Encourage the child to listen, hook the sounds together, and shout out "bed!"Keep it smooth: Try not to leave long pauses between the sounds. Say them relatively close together.

Step 3: Introduce CVC Blending with Group 1 SoundsOnce Group 1 sounds (s, a, t, i, p, n) are mastered, you can begin blending written words immediately. This gives children a quick win!Use Sound Buttons: Write a word like sat. Draw a small dot (sound button) under each letter.Point and Say: Have the child point to the dot under 's' and say $/\text{s}/$, under 'a' and say $/\text{a}/$, and under 't' and say $/\text{t}/$.The Slide: Move your finger smoothly under the letters from left to right, speeding up until they say "sat".

Step 4: The "Mouth-Move" Technique for Continuous SoundsIf a child struggles and says $/\text{s}/ - /\text{a}/ - /\text{t}/ \rightarrow \text{pin}$ (guessing), they are losing the sounds in their working memory.Stretch the first sound: Teach them to hold continuous sounds (like s, m, n, f, r).Instead of choppy breaks, stretch it out: ssss-aaaa-t.Don't stop the airflow: Keep the voice going from the first sound right into the second sound.

Step 5: Progress to Digraphs (Two Letters, One Sound)As you progress to Jolly Phonics Groups 2–7, you will encounter digraphs like ai, oa, ee, ng.Identify the team: Teach children that when these two letters sit next to each other, they team up to make one single sound.Use Sound Lines: Write the word boat. Draw a dot under b, a horizontal line under the oa digraph, and a dot under t.Point to the line under oa.

25/05/2026

In Jolly Phonics, you do not teach the alphabet in alphabetical order ($A, B, C, D...$). Instead, the sounds are taught in 7 specific groups.The very first things you should teach are the Group 1 sounds.1. The First Group of Sounds (Group 1)You should teach these 6 letter sounds first, ideally at a rate of about one sound per day:/s/ (as in sun)/a/ (as in apple)/t/ (as in tennis)/i/ (as in ink)/p/ (as in pan)/n/ (as in net)Why this specific order?This sequence is incredibly strategic. By the time children learn just these first six sounds, they can already blend them together to read and write dozens of simple three-letter words (CVC words), such as:sattappinpatpansit2. The Core Skills to Teach with Each SoundFor every single sound you introduce in Group 1, you need to teach five core skills simultaneously:Learning the Sound: Introduce the letter sound (not its alphabet name). For example, $a$ is "/æ/" as in ant, not "/eɪ/".Learning the Action: Every sound has a physical movement associated with it (e.g., weaving your hand like a snake for the /s/ sound). This helps kinesthetic learners.Letter Formation: Show children how to write the letter shape in the air, on the board, and on paper.Blending (Reading): Teaching them to look at letters like s-a-t and run the sounds together to say "sat".Segmenting (Spelling): Teaching them to hear a word like "pin" and break it down into its individual sounds: /p/ - /i/ - /n/.What Comes Next?Once your students are comfortable recognizing, blending, and writing the Group 1 sounds, you can smoothly transition to Group 2 ($c/k, e, h, r, m, d$).Are you teaching young learners at home or a class of students? I can give you some fun, specific activity ideas for this first group based on your setting!

25/05/2026

1. Learning the Letter Sounds
In Jolly Phonics, the 42 main letter sounds are taught first, rather than the alphabet names. This is because sounds are what children actually use to decode words.

The sounds are taught in a specific order (divided into 7 groups), starting with s, a, t, i, p, n. This specific order allows children to start building words almost immediately (e.g., sat, pin, tap).

Each sound has an associated action, storyline, and song to help children remember it using multiple senses.

2. Learning Letter Formation
Alongside learning the sound, children learn how to write the letter shape correctly.

Multi-sensory practice: Children feel the letter shape (using bumpy letters or finger-tracing), see it, and write it in the air or on paper.

Pencil hold: Great emphasis is placed on getting a correct "tripod grip" right from the beginning.

3. Blending (For Reading)
Blending is the process of saying the individual sounds in a word together to read the whole word.

For example, if a child sees the word d-o-g, they say the individual sounds and blend them fluently to hear "dog".

How to start: Start with simple three-letter words (Consonant-Vowel-Consonant, or CVC words) like cat, sun, or big. Mimic the blending action by running your finger under the letters smoothly.

4. Identifying Sounds in Words (For Writing/Spelling)
While blending is for reading, segmenting (breaking a word down into its component sounds) is for writing.

Children listen to a spoken word and try to hear the sounds inside it. For example, you ask, "What sounds can you hear in the word hop?" and they respond with h - o - p.

Practicing this skill helps children transition smoothly from listening to spelling independently.

5. Tricky Words
Not all words in the English language can be decoded using regular phonics rules (e.g., the, she, he, me, was).

These are called Tricky Words, and they have irregular spellings.

Children are taught these words separately by sight memory. Jolly Phonics uses specific games, flashcards, and look-cover-write-check techniques to help children memorize them.

22/05/2026

Jolly Phonics is a Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) program. 1 Instead of teaching children to memorize whole words by sight or guess them using pictures, it explicitly teaches the 42 individual letter sounds (phonemes) of the English language and how to blend them together to read.