"Hard C Soft C is often quite hard for students to learn. Making them work out for themselves what is happening and why as often a faster way to help them understand. Because many adults learnt by whole word methods these spelling rules are often new to them too. When c is followed by a, o or u it general has a hard c sound when followed by e i or y it takes the soft s sound. Word Sorts are an excellent way to encourage students to look ‘inside’ words and think ‘why’.

Many teachers send home flashcards for parents to help students learn their sounds at home. Frequently these get left at home or at school. These cards can be attached to a back pack on a ring or string so they do not get left behind or lost.

This is a Power Point activity designed as a fun way to reinforce student’ s knowledge of the hard C soft c spelling rule. Encourage students to read the word silently and work without looking at other people for a clue.

Word Sorts are an excellent way to encourage students to look ‘inside’ words and think ‘why’. In the early stages they can be whole class activities: later group or individual. As a group exercise it works best with mixed ability groups. Encourage students to use correct terminology when discussing ideas. The teacher’s role in these exercises is to select words which illustrate what they want students to “discover” and ask appropriate questions to lead students through the discovery process.

Word Sorts are an excellent way to encourage students to look ‘inside’ words and think ‘why’. In the early stages they can be whole class activities: later group or individual. As a group exercise it works best with mixed ability groups. Encourage students to use correct terminology when discussing ideas. The teacher’s role in these exercises is to select words which illustrate what they want students to “discover” and ask appropriate questions to lead students through the discovery process.

"This word sort helps students work out rules to help them decide when to use ai ay or a-e when spelling words. Word Sorts are an excellent way to encourage students to look ‘inside’ words and think ‘why’. In the early stages they can be whole class activities: later group or individual. As a group exercise it works best with mixed ability groups. Encourage students to use correct terminology when discussing ideas.

These two sheets are designed to be printed and laminated and given to students one book mark at a time to learn and revise the first 60 Jolly Phonics Tricky Words.

The books are grouped in the order of sounds introduced in Jolly Phonics literacy program. Each book has suggestions on how parents, tutors and teachers can get the most out of it. The books can be accessed in a number of ways. Downloaded, printed, read on online with Flash or downloaded to an IPad or tablet. You may need to wait a while for the book to load. Books can be navigated with buttons at the bottom of the page or by dragging the corner of each page across. An enlarged view of each page is possible by clicking on the page.

This is a fun activity to involve students in blending of real and nonsense words and discerning which are real and which are nonsense. An extension activity which students enjoy is making up their own words to add to the Power Point.

Many teachers send home flashcards for parents to help students learn their sounds at home. Frequently these get left at home or at school. These cards can be attached to a back pack on a ring or string so they do not get left behind or lost.

This is a blending activity to help students with the magic ‘e’ rule and differentiation between short vowels and long vowels.

This Word Sort helps students work out which words take the s plural and which use es. Word Sorts are an excellent way to encourage students to look ‘inside’ words and think ‘why’. In the early stages they can be whole class activities: later group or individual. As a group exercise it works best with mixed ability groups. Encourage students to use correct terminology when discussing ideas.

Jolly Phonics is designed to be multisensory. Bottle top letters are printed letters in print or Sassoon designed for sticking on 2 litre bottle tops. They make a colourful, cheap, multisensory aid for students to build words and manipulate sounds. Also included are some games to play with the tops.

This is a Power Point which uses colour to reinforce rhyming in words. By changing the vowel we can use the same Power Point for sound manipulation and also differentiating between real and non-words.

We encourage teachers to refrain from giving students reading books before they have a basic knowledge of letter sounds, blending and tricky words. Many students are keen to both read and write, even at this early stage. By using this power point pro forma, teachers can either write simple books with controlled vocab for their students or students can write their own. We find students and parents rapidly get involved and become very creative with words, digital pictures and scans of drawings. Two of the files are examples of students work.