Use this single-page, end-of-year Jolly Phonics checklist to assess the progress of individual pupils. This helps you to quickly identify any gaps in progress through the Jolly Phonics programme.

Compiled by Jolly Phonics co-author, Sue Lloyd, this 15-page Jolly Phonics word bank document contains a comprehensive collection of example words for each of the 42 letter sounds. Use each entry for ...

The new curriculum combines what it calls “word knowledge” and “world knowledge.” Word knowledge refers to structured, synthetic phonics. This is a way of teaching the letter-sound relationships used ...

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The project report also provides guidance and recommendations for future work in this area: Current practice in using a system of phonics with post-16 learners (PDF, 1.2MB) The study led to work (in ...

They remained enthusiastic a year later when the state Commission on Teacher Credentialing adopted new standards that emphasize explicit instruction of fundamental skills, including phonics. Now, ...

School districts would get a small cost-of-living increase and $500 million to train math and literacy coaches; UC and CSU would face as much as an 8% cut. With the governor proposing to cut nearly 8% ...

Watch Shakespeare's play The Tempest animated in 8 video clips. A ship returning from Africa is caught in a ferocious storm. On a nearby island Prospero, once Duke of Milan, has plans for those on ...

1. What shall we do? Jack lives in a small village with his Ma and Daisy the cow. One day Jack is enjoying a wonderful day-dream, full of food and tasty things to eat. But when Jack's mother wakes ...

Random Automatized Naming (RAN)/Dénomination rapide sérielle (DRS). LeNS assessment – designed to ensure a student has the foundational phonics skills to develop into an independent reader. LeNS ...

Our approach to the teaching of reading has not gotten the results we need. So we are going to make sure every single one of our students is getting strong, phonics-based literacy instruction from the ...