Jolly Phonics Workbooks 1-7 Paperback – January 1, 1995

These books, that I use along side the jolly phonics songs which I pull from you tube, are really helping my daughter to read. She has a really tough time and these make it somewhat fun. We look at the song and then we colour the picture while singing it a few times. Then we do the writing part and then afterwards I give her a "Spelling test" with words all containing that diagrapgh. I have her write them on the window in white board marker to make it interesting and when she can spell all the words because they all have the same diagraph base, her confidence shoots up, and she is so happy. My daughter is in 1st grade so we didn't start from the 1st book, we started from book 4- still VERY worth it.

Homeschooling for the first time this year and I really enjoy the Jolly Phonics curriculum. You can find videos on YouTube to sing the songs, and templates for them to create books that help them remember the sounds. My kindergartner is learning so much and has started reading more difficult books because of Jolly Phonics.

The Jolly phonics scheme is a fantastic way to teach kids to read. My son is 3+ and has successful completed stage 3 of of the Oxford Reading Tree scheme. He's beginning to write simple sentences using his knowledge of sounds ( most of his written words are phonetically plausible).Learning the jolly phonics helped a great deal. I recommend Jolly phonics to all home schoolers and professional pre.k and kindergarten teachers. 5star it is!

I worked at an English academy in South Korea and these books (and lots of repetition) were the primary way that we taught our young students phonics. The idea of using actions as a kinesthetic cue to remember both the name and the sound of a letter was highly effective. In our academy, we would have the students practice by saying, "My name is 'B', my sound is 'buh, buh, buh' while making the action indicated in these books.If you were to do this, you would want to buy a set of flashcards with the letters for practice because the actual mileage that you get out of the Jolly Phonics books is not much.This worked well for my class in South Korea but I am thinking of switching to using sign language to add a kinesthetic cue to learning letters. Why? Jolly Phonics is basically its own sign language, so why not use the real thing and give your kids some resources that they might be able to use later in life? (I realized this after I memorized actions for 26 letters and yet could only communicate with other people who use Jolly Phonics.)Also, one final note, as an American, I did modify some of the later sounds. For example, the Jolly Phonics books have you say, "A, R, together - 'Ahhh' (with your mouth open like you're going to the dentist)." That is not how we pronounce it in America so instead we had the kids say "Arrrr" and make a hook with one finger like they were a pirate.An interesting idea, and very effective with lots of repetition, but ultimately I think I'd go with sign language.

Great phonics program!

My 4 years old girl starts to read and write thanks to those books. You have to find the songs on you tube and I also uses the teacher book. She doesn't realize that she is working. It even helped my 6 years old kindergartener to read and write.

This workbook has great worksheets and concepts for teaching English! My students love learning through these and find it much easier than just learning ABC's.

I love jolly phonics! It's a great way for children to learn their letter sounds. I use it with my kids ages 1-5 and they all have so much fun doing it!