
Jolly Phonics - Learn to Read 4+
Lessons for Kids beyond ABC
Jolly Futures Technologies C.I.C.
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Teach Your Children to Read and Write with Jolly Phonics!
Unlock reading and writing potential with the literacy programme designed for kids and trusted by teachers worldwide. Aligned with the Science of Reading, this interactive app makes learning to read and write and building phonemic awareness fun and engaging!
What is Jolly Phonics?
Jolly Phonics is a programme for teaching reading and writing. It is based on a systematic synthetic phonics approach, and was developed by teachers Sue Lloyd and Sara Wernham. It is the first stage in teaching children to read and write using the 5 key skills. It focuses on direct, explicit instruction of phonemic awareness and phonics for both reading (decoding) and writing (encoding). Scientific research has consistently shown phonemic awareness to be essential for building strong reading, spelling and writing skills.
Why Choose Jolly Phonics?
1. Proven Success: Used in schools globally for over 30 years with proven literacy outcomes.
2. Science-Based Approach: Aligned with the Science of Reading to ensure kids build effective foundational reading and spelling skills.
3. Engaging and Multi-Sensory: Songs, actions and interactive learning games bring phonics learning to life!
Key Features That Make Learning Easy and Fun:
1. Explore All 42 Letter Sounds: Go beyond ABC with free songs and audio to help kids learn every sound.
2. Learn to Read: Build phonemic awareness with our interactive learning tools such as flashcards, wordbank and action images to enhance and support every lesson.
3. Learn to Write: Develop strong handwriting skills with step-by-step visual animations.
4. Learning Games: Learn to read and write with fun phonics learning games that reinforce kids' learning.
5. Progress Tracking: Built-in assessments to monitor children's progress and celebrate achievements.
Who Is Jolly Phonics For?
1. Kids: From preschoolers learning their first words and ABC, to confident young readers building their phonics skills.
2. Parents: Support your children's early reading, writing, and spelling journey at home with our guided lessons.
3. Teachers: A valuable classroom resource for phonics instruction.
Start Your Kids' Phonics Journey Today!
Join the millions of families and educators who have embraced the Jolly Phonics programme of learning for confident readers and writers. Whether at home or in the classroom, this app makes literacy learning simple, effective and enjoyable!
Why Phonics Instead of ABC?
1. Phonics focuses on letter-sound relationships and how sounds (phonemes) make up words. It teaches kids the valuable skill of decoding, which is essential for reading and spelling fluency.
2. ABC refers to learning letters and their names rather than their sounds. Knowing the alphabet may be a precursor to phonics but doesn't directly teach reading skills.
Learning Beyond ABC!
Jolly Phonics doesn't stop at just ABC or phonemic awareness. The app offers:
1. Advanced learning strategies
2. Comprehensive handwriting exercises
3. Fun learning games designed for children to reinforce spelling and letter sounds knowledge
Start Your Kids' Phonics Journey Today!
Join the millions of families and educators who have embraced the Jolly Phonics programme of learning for confident readers and writers. Whether at home or in the classroom, with our structured lessons, interactive tools, and a focus on foundational phonemic awareness, your kids will learn to read, write and spell confidently.
Download now and see how Jolly Phonics can transform your children's literacy learning!
What’s New
Version 7.0.6
This update introduces a streamlined experience for viewing Jolly Readers in our web store.
Ratings and Reviews
Love it..
Really enjoyed using this app. Especially with my nursery school leavers. Lots of complaints about software issues on these reviews.. However I never had any? I hope this doesn’t start happening.
Would like to purchase the whole app but at £9 not sure it is really worth that much. Maybe £4-£5 tops.
Repetitive
My son has extremely limited access to my phone as I’m trying to resist letting him engage with too many apps and games as he is only just turned 5. I paid for this app and it’s partner jolly phonics games, as I though at entry level screen time it might be fun and also as a bonus educational - however - it is so bloody boring! Seriously. He is doing fairly well at school and understands some basic phonemes so it wasn’t due to lack of understanding. The platform is just so incredibly repetitive and there is no real engagement or reward or excitement. I think he would rather I wrote some words on the back of a wooden spoon and waved it about. He would probably rather do anything, and that says a lot as he is so eager to see what phones and games are all about. Looking for alternatives.
Does not work with family sharing
Brought this app on my iPhone thinking my daughter would be able to access the additional paid for part on her iPad via family sharing, nope, doesn’t work.
Googled this and I think it is down to the development of the app as to weather this function can work or not. Contacted support, after going through the obvious steps they said they would pass to their dev team to investigate, a month later no response so I asked for a refund, got told I had to contact apple but the purchase doesn’t show up in the short list of recent apps that I had purchased, maybe that month of waiting was tactical?
So, for my daughter to learn phonics, I’ve had to pay for the app again! £20 I have paid for this app! I’m sure there are better ones out there but this is what my daughter uses at school and is most familiar with.
Be careful on how you intend to use this app.
App Privacy
The developer, Jolly Futures Technologies C.I.C., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
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Information
- Provider
- Jolly Futures Technologies C.I.C.
- Size
- 211.8 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Gilbert Jolly
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Unlock Everything £9.99
- Sound Groups 2 to 7 £7.99
- Full access (monthly) £4.99
- Tricky Words £1.99
- Alternatives £1.99
- Sounding £1.99
- Writing £0.99