jolly phonics - your opinion
 

in your opinion how does jolly phonics affect yours and other practice in an early years setting ?

Hi
i attended a communication course the other week and i work with 2/5 year olds and i was told that during early years we should,nt be introducing jolly phonics i personally agree with this. We were told that if a child doesn't learn jolly phonics the right way e.g. with the right use of their tongue/lips voice box etc then this can cause them to have difficulties when they are older and causes more problems for the teacher and salt because the child then has to be untaught and taught the correct way.
I also understand that if you have a gifted child that needs challenging then this should be an option but with a trained member of staff, which lets be honest probably won't happen in early years but we can hope.

Lynne

we use phonics to help children with communication, letter sounds and shapes and with early writitng we have attended local college courses to learn how to sound and make the correct shapes with our mouths so we can teach children. we use this with our speech therapists recommendations as it help children with speech, language and communication needs. our children have come on leaps and bounds you can sing ryhming songs or play games with the sounds of letters . hope this helps