Jolly Phonique
Although only a portion of our French literacy curriculum, the French Jolly Phonics program makes use of an explicit method to effectively teach the speech sounds of French in a multisensory approach adapted to young children. The program aims to teach all 36 major speech sounds of french, non-only those in the alphabet. Once the students have acquired this knowledge, teacher's will be helping students improve their letter sound association skills to form words, and to write. Every letter sound comes with a gesture, making the learning of the sounds a multi-modal approach.
There are 5 steps to the Jolly Phonics approach that are taught in a parallel fashion, and they are:
The Jolly Phonics program is spread over 9 weeks, with a different subset of speech sounds taught every week, ending with digraphs, diphtongs, homophones, and other tricky sounds. As the weeks progress, students are given increasingly more complex tasks. For example, at the beginning of the program, students are only expected to identify the beginning phoneme, but as they progress, they are then expected to start segmenting and blending phonemes in words.
There are a number of games and activities bound to each set of letter sounds, allowing students to practice and further develop their letter-sound understanding in a fun and engaging manner. Once students have been introduced to a specific set of French speech sounds, they are given a list of words with which they can practice
There are 5 steps to the Jolly Phonics approach that are taught in a parallel fashion, and they are:
- Learning the letter sounds
- Learning to form letters
- Learning blending of sounds
- Learning to identify sounds in words
- Learning difficult words
The Jolly Phonics program is spread over 9 weeks, with a different subset of speech sounds taught every week, ending with digraphs, diphtongs, homophones, and other tricky sounds. As the weeks progress, students are given increasingly more complex tasks. For example, at the beginning of the program, students are only expected to identify the beginning phoneme, but as they progress, they are then expected to start segmenting and blending phonemes in words.
There are a number of games and activities bound to each set of letter sounds, allowing students to practice and further develop their letter-sound understanding in a fun and engaging manner. Once students have been introduced to a specific set of French speech sounds, they are given a list of words with which they can practice