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 * Jolly Phonics Consulting/ Integration into current English curriculum

 * Assessments for children/ classes available

 * Private Tutoring possible

 * Taught by a native English teacher and accredited trainer

What is Jolly Phonics?

Jolly Phonics is a thorough foundation for reading and writing.

Jolly Phonics (JP) helps children with reading, writing, pronunciation, and spelling.

It uses the synthetic phonics method of teaching the letter sounds in a way that is fun and multi-sensory. Children learn how to use the letter sounds to read and write words.

 The five basic skills for reading and writing are:

1. Learning the letter sounds
2. Learning letter formation
3. Blending
4. Identifying sounds in words
5. Spelling the tricky words

 Parental support is important to all children as they benefit from plenty of praise and encouragement whilst learning. Extra practice will lead to fluency in reading and help your child manage at school.

Independent studies find that, after one year's teaching, children taught with JP have an average reading age around 12 months ahead of their actual age. Their spelling age is usually slightly further ahead. Boys typically do as well as girls.

 

About the classes 

We recommend 45 minute classes for Jolly Phonics (JP).

We aim to go through the 40+ sounds in English so this is not a crash course but a long-term course requiring commitment.

Most school programmes do a year in Jolly Phonics, learning the 42 sounds in the first 4 months but other areas like reading, spelling and writing are also worked on together in a year-long programme. They then go onto Jolly Grammar which builds on Jolly Phonics.

Jolly Phonics in Japan 
Some schools may choose to do a specialised JP lesson once or twice a week.
Other schools may choose to integrate a quick 10-15 minute JP component into their English lessons everyday.

Depending on the number of lessons, the children's proficiency levels and learning needs, it is recommended that 2-3 sounds are taught per lesson.

Jolly Phonics should be reinforced at home with parents.

Why Phonics? And Why does Jolly Phonics work? 


 * FUN

 * Multi-sensory learning (listen, see, feel, act)

 * Results as early as first week (group 1 3 letter words)

 * Correct sound foundations

 * Improves pronunciation

 * Improves spelling/ writing through knowledge of rules

 * Improves listening skills

 * Accelerated learning

 * Empowers children with the confidence to read and sound out words independently

Registrations and Enquiries: info@phonicsjapan.info

Usage of Jolly Phonics name and logo is approved.
Classes conducted are mainly private classes and tutoring not affiliated with any school.