Crafty Jolly Phonics

Young children enjoy crafting and taking the craft they made in class home to show everyone. The craft is a physical representation of the new sound they learned that day. Activities and games are another way of consolidating upon children’s letter sound knowledge and skills. Let’s play and learn, learn, and play. It's fun crafting with young learners as we move through the Jolly Phonics program of sounds. Training young learners to look for ‘letter sounds’ learned in class or at home, as they go from ‘a to b’ brings language learning to life. Learning our sounds becomes an enjoyable and memorable experience. With Jolly Phonics, each sound has its own action, song, and associated story. This ‘many pathways to the brain’ approach provides equal opportunities for all types of learners to make connections, whilst learning and playing. Contained within this e-book of mine you will find activity, craft and/or game suggestions that you can use when teaching each of the 42 sounds, as taught using the Jolly Phonics program. The suggestions are often interchangeable. For example: the body part movements suggested for the /s/ sound below could be applied to other sounds too.

When teaching young learners how to blend their sounds one can become quite imaginative. A synonym for the verb ‘to blend’ could be ‘to join’ or ‘to unite’, amongst many more. So, what fun games would young learners be receptive to when learning how to ‘blend’, 'join', 'unite' their sounds? I will outline and elaborate upon 5 tried and tested games, in no particular order, that I have personally used as a teacher of young learners.

The first in a series of 7 fun-filled activity books for children covers the first group of letter sounds. Jolly Phonics teaches children to read and write using synthetic phonics in a fun and engaging way. Each of these 36 page activity books for children aged 3+, includes 2 pages of stickers providing a range of fun activities for children to complete, including colouring, handwriting practice, puzzles, mazes, games, craft activities, word & picture matching and flash cards. There is a story for each of the letter sounds as well as the letter sound action, introducing synthetic phonics in a fun and multi-sensory way, giving children solid support at home.

The third in a series of 7 fun-filled activity books for children covers the first group of letter sounds. Jolly Phonics teaches children to read and write using synthetic phonics in a fun and engaging way. Each of these 36 page activity books for children aged 3+, includes 2 pages of stickers providing a range of fun activities for children to complete, including colouring, handwriting practice, puzzles, mazes, games, craft activities, word & picture matching and flash cards. There is a story for each of the letter sounds as well as the letter sound action, introducing synthetic phonics in a fun and multi-sensory way, giving children solid support at home.

Includes seven sections that can be put up individually. They can be a continuous strip around the wall or a block like a giant poster. Show all the letter sounds of English, not just the alphabet.

The second in a series of 7 fun-filled activity books for children covers the first group of letter sounds. Jolly Phonics teaches children to read and write using synthetic phonics in a fun and engaging way. Each of these 36 page activity books for children aged 3+, includes 2 pages of stickers providing a range of fun activities for children to complete, including colouring, handwriting practice, puzzles, mazes, games, craft activities, word & picture matching and flash cards. There is a story for each of the letter sounds as well as the letter sound action, introducing synthetic phonics in a fun and multi-sensory way, giving children solid support at home.

The seventh in a series of 7 fun-filled activity books for children covers the first group of letter sounds. Jolly Phonics teaches children to read and write using synthetic phonics in a fun and engaging way. Each of these 36 page activity books for children aged 3+, includes 2 pages of stickers providing a range of fun activities for children to complete, including colouring, handwriting practice, puzzles, mazes, games, craft activities, word & picture matching and flash cards. There is a story for each of the letter sounds as well as the letter sound action, introducing synthetic phonics in a fun and multi-sensory way, giving children solid support at home.

The first in a series of 7 activity books for children. The 36 page activity book deals with one group of letter sounds s, a, t, i, p, n.