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Hello and welcome to Little Learners. In this video I'll be looking at phonics and
mainly Jolly Phonics. I have an earlier video called, 'What is phonics?' if you need a
little bit more of an introduction to phonics and if you have watch that video
already then you will know that in Jolly Phonics each sound has a
corresponding action, song and story. In this video I'm just going to focus on
the sounds and actions. If you watched that video you'll also know that in Jolly
Phonics sound are not taught in alphabetical order, they're taught in a
very specific order to make sure that children can decode words sooner. So in
this video I will be showing you the sounds in the Jolly Phonics order, but if you would
like to see them alphabetical order I will also edit this video in
alphabetical order and link it in the description box below. Now before we get
started I just want to mention something that has terrorized every teacher
teaching phonics since the beginning of time - well since the beginning of this
new phonics scheme - and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the 'schwa'.
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'What is the schwa?' You may ask. A schwa is when we make the 'uh' sound at the end of
a letter sound. So for example we don't commonly see this with M, N and L. So we
actually pronounce them 'mmm', 'nnn' and 'lll', but with a schwa on the end, they sound
more like, 'muh', 'nuh' and 'luh', which is not what we want. So with that in mind let's
take a look at the first 26 letter sounds and their corresponding actions. I also just
want to put a bit of a disclaimer here to let you know that the actions for each
sound are often quite strange but they always link in with the song or the
story so just go with me on this.
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/s/
For this sound we make our arm a snake, going through the grass.
'sssss' 'sssss'
/a/
For this sound we pretend that there are ants on our arm. 'ah' ah' 'ah 'ah' ah' 'ah' 'ah'.
'/t/
For this sound we pretend we're watching a tennis game like so:
t - t - t - t - t
And remember: 't' not 'tuh'.
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/i/
for this sound we pretend we are a mouse wiping i-ink off of our whiskers. It
goes with the song and story, trust me.
i - i - i - i
/p/
For this sound we pretend we are
blowing out a candle on a pink pig cake. Try saying that 10 times fast. Pink pig cake
pink pig cake pink pig (inaudible) pink? So we put our finger
in front of our mouths as if it is a candle and we puff out the candle
p - p -
You should be able to feel your breath on your finger
p - p -p
/n/
For this sound we pretend we are an aeroplane making a very noisy 'n' sound like this:
nnnnnnnnnnnn For any of you out there planning on being primary school
teachers, just remember that you do have to make fool out of yourself every single
day. Yeah. Anyway back to business.
'c/k'
Now this sound obviously belongs to two different letters, C and K and they do have their own individual
songs, but they both have the same action which is pretending to play castanets ah so this
ck - ck - ck -ck - ck - ck - ck
/e/
For this sound we pretend we are breaking an egg into a pan
eh - eh - eh -eh
/h/
For this sound raise your hand and say the sound /h/ on to your hand so that you can
feel your breath on your palm
h - h- h
/r/
For this sound we pretend that we are a puppy
ripping a rag.
rrrrrrrrr
Yeah remember that thing I said about making a fool of
yourself? I was not kidding.
/m/
Never 'muh'
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mmmm. So this sound is pretty simple, we just pretend that we are about to eat a
really tasty meal. Put your hand on your stomach and say mmm! mmmm!
/d/
For this, we get our imaginary d-d-drum. d - d - d - d - d - d
/g/
For this we imagine we are hearing water g-g-gurgle down the drain.
g - g - g - g
/o/
So this sound is pretty simple, we just turn the light on and off
o - o - o - o - o - o
/u/
For this we put up our umbrellas.
uh - uh - uh - uh
/l/
Never 'luh'.
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/l/. For this we lick our lollipop.
llll - llll - llll - llll
/f/
For this sound we pretend that there is an inflatable floating fish that has got a puncture
in it and the air is starting to escape. I would love to have coffee with whoever
came up with these. We put our hands like this and make the sound.
fffffffffffff
/b/
For this we hit our ball with our bat.
b - b - b
/j/
By far my favourite action and
definitely the most popular in each class that I've had so far. We stretch
out our arms and we become jelly.
j - j - j - j
/z/
For this we pretend we are buzzy bees and put out our wings like so.
zzz - zzz - zzz
/w/
For this we pretend that we are blowing the wind over our hands
w - w - w - w
/v/
For this sound we get into a van and drive it
vvvv - vvvv - vvv
That sound tickles every time.
/y/
For this we get our yogurt and we eat it.
y - y - y - y
/x/
Now of course this the sound that we really only ever hear in
the middle or end of words. We pretend to taking an x-ray with a special x-ray camera.
'ks' - 'ks' - 'ks' - 'ks'
/qu/
This sound takes Q and U to make /qu/. For this we pretend we are a
duck quacking.
qu - qu - qu - qu
And so that concludes all 26 letter sounds.
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