What is Jolly Phonics?
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Ending the Reading Wars
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Jolly Phonics for Parents
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Parent Videos on how to teach Jolly Phonics
‘Engaged play is learning for children. Jolly Phonics is engaged play!’
About Jacqui
Jacqui Tarquinio has been a primary school teacher for over 15 years now and has been practising the Jolly Phonics program for 13 years. She first learnt the program when working in the UK and was surprised by its outstanding results with non-English-speaking learners.
After all these years, Jacqui still gets excited by the results that the Jolly Phonics program achieves. She passionately believes that every child deserves access to this synthetic, systematic and multi-sensory approach when learning English. Jacqui always marvels at the positive mindset Jolly Phonics creates when children start learning to read and write so quickly and enthusiastically.

Book a workshop with Jacqui at your school / early learning centre
*Free 30min Zoom session covers:
• What is phonics? Why systematic, synthetic phonics is important
• A brief outline of the 5 skills taught in Jolly Phonics
• The Jolly Phonics resources and the reading assessment tool
• Questions and answers to end
*Conditions apply
5An Introduction to Jolly Phonics full day workshop provides:
- What is phonics? The benefits of explicit, multi-sensory, systematic and synthetic phonics
- Understanding the basics of phonological awareness
- Learning the 5 skills of the Jolly Phonics program using fun, practical activities
- The Alphabetic Code, teaching the alternative spellings and basic rules
- Audio-visual examples demonstrating classroom instruction and implementation of the Jolly Phonics program
- What Jolly Phonics resources will suit your learner’s needs and instruction on the Jolly Phonics assessment tool
- Lesson plans linked to the Australian curriculum
- Action packed day with free resources given
2022 Term 2 and 3, Zoom Workshop Dates:
Introduction to Jolly Phonics. Wednesday the 8th of June 2022, 9-3 pm EST (including breaks). $250 per person*.
Introduction to Jolly Phonics. Wednesday the 29th of June 2022, 9-3 pm EST (including breaks). $250 per person*.
Introduction to Jolly Phonics. Wednesday the 20th of July 2022, 9-3 pm EST (including breaks). $250 per person*.
*Please note there needs to be a minimum of three people per workshop.
Payment will be processed once numbers are confirmed.
Discounts for group bookings (5 to 8 participants); $150 per person. Over 8 participants and up to 25 applicants total of $1400.
Please enquire about face-to-face workshops, travel fees additional.



What is Synthetic Phonics?
I use the analogy of a piece of synthetic material. Synthetic material is made up of different material parts and has been put together to make a whole.
Just like this process, our language can be broken up into sounds and built back up again through a process known as synthesising. This essentially means blending. The main process of a synthetic phonics approach is to blend sounds.
Children are first taught the individual sounds and then, when they come to a word, they must try and blend to decipher the word. Think of a whole piece of synthetic material or a whole word—either one has been synthesised to create a whole.

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