Teach Jolly Phonics in a more interactive, engaging way
Jolly Classroom is a web-based digital platform and online resource subscription designed to teach Jolly Phonics through structured, teacher-led lessons, interactive activities, songs, games, worksheets and practical classroom support for children aged 4–6.
What is Jolly Classroom?
Jolly Classroom is a web-based digital platform designed to teach Jolly Phonics in an interactive and engaging way. It provides teachers with structured lessons, activities and resources to help children aged 4–6 develop reading and writing skills through phonics. It includes animations, songs, games and worksheets to make learning multisensory and fun. It follows the paper-based Jolly Phonics programme, with downloadable worksheets available in the app that reflect the content in the Pupil Books.
Structured and teacher-led
Each lesson is carefully designed to provide a complete learning session, supported by teaching notes and planning guidance.
Interactive and engaging
Animations, songs, audio, stories and interactive activities make phonics learning multisensory, enjoyable and effective.
Flexible for classrooms
Fully cloud and web-based, with support for whiteboards, tablets and laptops, plus options for British or American English and print or precursive letters.
How is Jolly Classroom different from Jolly Phonics books?
While Jolly Phonics books are physical resources, Jolly Classroom is a fully online resource subscription that gives teachers everything they need to deliver engaging phonics lessons in one place.
- Over 150 lessons aligned with the Jolly Phonics programme
- Interactive activities, animations and audio for letter sounds and stories
- Worksheets and planning notes for each lesson
- Choice of British or American English
- Choice of print or precursive letters
- Teacher-led lessons designed to provide a complete learning session
What’s included
Jolly Classroom is available as a 6 monthly or annual subscription per school and provides all the tools teachers need to deliver fun, engaging lessons easily and effectively.
Core features
- Ideal for use with children aged 4–6 years
- Full and extensive year’s programme with more than 150 lessons
- Dozens of interactive and exciting activities
- Extensive selection of worksheets, templates and games that can be printed and used in class
- Inbuilt audio for the letter sounds, Jolly Songs and story option
Teaching support
- Teaching notes and planning guidelines for each lesson
- Choice of print or precursive letters
- Ability to create multiple personalised staff and classroom profiles
- Fully cloud and web-based platform
- Available across whiteboards, tablets and laptops on PC and Mac
A progressive 3-step programme
With a fresh and vibrant look, Jolly Classroom is split into 3 main steps, covering the 42 letter sounds, alternative spellings and tricky words, along with activities for reading and handwriting practice.
Introduce the 42 letter sounds
Step 1 focuses on the five key skills of Jolly Phonics to teach reading and writing.
- Learning the main 42 letter sounds
- Learning letter formation using multisensory methods
- Blending sounds to read and write words
- Segmenting sounds within words
- Learning tricky words with irregular spellings
Build on the initial teaching
Step 2 builds on Step 1 with daily revision and consolidation, while also introducing extension topics for the week.
- Main alternative vowel spellings
- Capital letters and alphabet work
- New tricky words
- Guided writing activities
Consolidate the teaching
Step 3 reinforces learning from the earlier stages while expanding children’s phonics and reading comprehension skills.
- Alternative letter-sound spelling patterns
- Additional tricky words
- Long and short vowel work
- Reading comprehension activities
Subscription options
Choose the subscription that best suits your school’s teaching needs.
Assessments
Gives access to the assessing element of Jolly Classroom.
Assessments & Phonics
The core Jolly Classroom subscription, with access to the phonics programme, lessons, activities and teaching resources.
Assessments, Phonics & Literacy 1
The core subscription plus the Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation 1 add-on.
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