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Sue Lloyd and Sara Wernham Illustrated by Lib Stephen
The Jolly Phonics Workbooks teach progressively, with more to learn in each Workbook.
Progress can be assessed on the skills checklist below.

Reading • .

Recognizes the fourth group of sounds -

ai, j, oa, ie, ee, or.
pages 2-10, 15
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Can sound out a digraph.
Digraphs (such as ai, oa, ie, ee, or) have two letters but one sound.
The child should say the digraph sound (such as ai), not the sound
pages 18, 21 D
of each letter (so not a-i). It can be difficult at first. Give the child
some practice with regular words such as rain, pain, wait, nail, paint.

Writing

Holds pencil correctly, between thumb

and first two fingers. D
Can write the fourth group of sounds -
ai, j, oa, ie, ee, or.
pages 3-10, 15 D
The child should be able to write the sounds after hearing them, not
just by copying them. So check by calling out the sounds. Also try
calling out regular words that have these digraphs: goat, boat, coat,
float, road, beef, keep, need, peep, pie, die, lie, fort, sort, ford, torn, born.

Able to write digraphs in joined-up writing (cursive).

(Some schools do not use joined-up writing for young children.
Check with your child's school to see what their handwriting policy is).
pages 3, 7, 9,
15, 18, 22 D
Can hear the digraph sound in words.
For example that the sound ai occurs in snail, whale and
baby, but not in cat, bath or farm.
pages 17, 19, 21, 22
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Write your name.

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Snake tells her she should say pardon.

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Action: Cup hand over ear and say ai, ai, ai.
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Action: Put hands on head as if ears on a donkey. Move them

up and down as you say eeyore, eeyore.
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Instructions
How to make your Sound Book.
1. Take out the 2 middle pages of
Vowel
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 Some words are tricky and just have to be learned.

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(Workbook 4 - Number 4)

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 String together some
paper raindrops.
Write 'ai' words on
them (rain, sail,
train, brain).

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Look carefully at
J ggle juggle someone's eye.
Draw a picture.

Make your own vowel forest.

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Cut out large tree shapes and stick them on a big piece of paper.
Find words or pictures with the different vowel sounds and stick
them on the correct tree.
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Further Guidance

Pages 2-10. Sounds.

Learning the sounds is the first step in reading. In this book the digraph sounds (ai as in
aim, oa as in oak, etc) are introduced, which are quite different from the short vowel sounds
(a as in at, o as in on, etc).

Pages 3, 7, 9, 15. Joined-up (cursive) writing.

The digraphs have been joined as an introduction to joined-up (cursive) writing. Joining will
help in remembering the order of the two letters in each digraph.

Pages 3, 9, 11-14. Vowels.

Vowels are introduced as a group of sounds that need to be used with care, especially when
there are two of them together.

Pages 3, 9. When two vowels go walking the first does the talking.
The complexities of English spelling are made easier with a few simple rules of which ''Whe
two vowels go walking the first does the talking" is one. Examples of this rule are rain,
green, leaf, tie, coat, toe and cue. Although this rule has exceptions it is useful at the early
stages.

Pages 11-14. Vowel Sound Book.

The child has first been introduced to one way of writing each of the vowels. Now, some alter-
native ways are shown on these pages, which can be pulled out and made into a Vowel Sound
Book. (For example that the ai sound can also be written a-e or ay).

Page 16. Handwriting Practice.

The join to the letters that begin with a 'c' shape (a, d, o, g, q) is one of the most difficult
because the pencil must stop and then come back to form the letter.

Page 18. Word Families.

Recognizing word families and rhymes helps with reading and writing.

Page 20. Tricky Words.

Some words have irregular spelling that just has to be learned. The words on this page can
be learned by the "LOOK, COVER, WRITE and CHECK" method. Notice that the child is
encouraged to write the tricky word all in joined-up (cursive). Spellings are remembered bet-
ter when words are written in joined-up writing. Only encourage this if your school has an
early joined-up (cursive) policy.
T1"e Jotty P1"ontcs Worle/Jooles te01c1" t1"e slettts for retuttng °'"'" wrtttng
All the letter sounds of English are introduced (not just the alphabet) , with an 'action' for each.
Exercises show how to use the letter sounds to read and to spell, along with ways of learning the
'tricky' spellings. The correct way to form each letter is shown and in later Workbooks joined-up
(cursive) writing is introduced.

Also available: Jolly Phonics Videos 1 and 2 (tor children), The Phonics
Handbook, Finger Phonics books, Jolly Phonics Letter Sound Poster and more.
A free Parent/Teachers' guide is available from either address below.

ISBN

1 satipn 1 870946 51 0
2 c It e h r m d
3goulfb
1 870946 52 9
1 870946 53 7 ••
4 ai j oa ie ee or
5 z w ng v oo oo
6 y x ch sh th th
1 870946 54 5
1 870946 55 3
1 870946 56 1
••
7 q,u ou oi ue er ar 1 870946 57 X

© Sue Lloyd, Sara Wernham, Christopher Jolly 1995 (text)

© Lib Stephen 1995 (illustrations)
Printed in Great Britain. All rights reserved ISBN 1-870946-54-5

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