STA Ltd. Jolly Phonics products



The Jolly Readers use controlled vocabulary so children can read words from their knowledge of the letter sounds in Jolly Phonics.Only a few essential tricky words are used, and these are shown at the back of each book. The Jolly Readers have engaging and lively stories which children enjoy.The problem of heavily controlled vocabulary ('cat sat on the mat') is overcome by the much wider use of words available with digraphs, such as splash, paint, look, and trail. Each level of the Jolly Readers has three series (each with 6 different books): Inky Mouse and Friends. (Stories about Inky, Snake and Bee and the world of the characters in Jolly Phonics) General Fiction. (Both new and classic stories) Nonfiction. (Factual information and stories) The Jolly Readers are designed to start once a child has learned all the 42 sounds in Jolly Phonics, and can read new words by blending the sounds together. In normal classes the child is at this stage about two thirds through their first year at school.
	The first (red) level of Jolly Readers uses words with the basic letter sounds in Jolly Phonics, and not the alternative spelling of the digraphs (so ai in snail, but not ay as in day, or a-e as in gate). These alternative spellings will be introduced in a later level. The Jolly Readers use controlled vocabulary so children can read words from their knowledge of the letter sounds in Jolly Phonics. Only a few essential tricky words are used, and these are shown at the back of each book. The Jolly Readers have engaging and lively stories which children enjoy. The problem of heavily controlled vocabulary ('cat sat on the mat') is overcome by the much wider use of words available with digraphs, such as splash, paint, look, and trail. The three series each have 6 storybooks, with 8 pages per book:
	This new second level is slightly more advanced than the first and follows the same lively and interesting three series. Now, in addition to the 42 letter sounds used in the first level, y is used for the /ee/ sound at the end of words like funny. As before, light type is used as a guide for those few letters that should not be sounded out, such as the b in lamb, but not the tricky words, which should already be familiar.
	The Level 3 books introduce the 'magic e' for spelling words with the long vowels, (as in make, like, bone and tune) to give a new challenge to young readers. These readers should be used at the beginning of the second year of learning to read with Jolly Phonics, after Level 2. The new third level (green) also contains some alternative spellings of the digraphs.
	At the Blue Level (the fourth level), the stories are longer and introduce more tricky words, which are shown at the end of each book. In addition, all the Jolly Phonics alternative vowel spellings are used to make words like ‘day’, ‘seat’, ‘night’, ‘snow’, ‘few’, ‘girl’, ‘straw’, ‘boy’ and ‘scowl’. As before, light type is used for those few letters that should not be sounded out, such as the ‹b› in ‘lamb’ (but not in the new tricky words, which should already be familiar without this help). The ‘Inky Mouse and Friends’ series brings back Inky, Snake and Bee, already familiar from Jolly Phonics.