Jolly Phonics teaches children to read and write using synthetic phonics, which is widely recognised as the most effective way to teach children to read and write in English. That was over 25 years ago. Since then our immense progress has been studied in numerous research projects, the results of which led to phonics becoming central to the UK curriculum. Today we are now used in over 100 countries worldwide. As the leading synthetic phonics publisher, and the most experienced, we offer a 7-year school programme that teaches not only phonics, but spelling, punctuation and grammar too.

* Systematic teaching of phonics, grammar, spelling and punctuation across the school years

* Teaching is multi-sensory and active, with fun actions, stories and songs

* Independent research supports the outstanding results achieved around the world with the programme

* Continues to revise and extend children’s phonic knowledge

* Flexible and easy to implement in your school

* Developed by teachers for teachers

Jolly Phonics is a comprehensive programme, based on the proven, fun and muliti-sensory synthetic phonics method that gets children reading and writing from an early age. This means that we teach letter sounds as opposed to the alphabet. These 42 letter sounds are phonic building blocks that children, with the right tools, use to decode the English language. When reading a word, they recognise the letters and blend together the respective sounds; when writing a word they identify the sounds and write down the corresponding letters. These skills are called blending and segmenting. These are two of the five skills that children need to master phonics:

1. Learning the letter sounds

2. Learning letter formation
3. Blending
4. Segmenting
5. Tricky words