Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39403 in Books
• Published on: 2004-08-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 8 pages

Synopsis
A set of Level 1 "Jolly Readers" containing 6 Inky & Friends book titles, 6 General Fiction and 6 Non-Fiction titles. Each book has one sentence per page and 11 Tricky Words per book.

Customer Reviews

We tried them but didn't like them
I have used the jolly phonics workbooks, and my son knows well most of the phonics sounds presented in them. Since we liked the workbooks we decided to try the reading books.

He stared with the red level and although he can read them (at least the first three of each of the subjects) with some help, we have found many cons for a child just starting to read: (1) The size of the words is too small. He would be more comfortable with a bigger size. (2) Most of the stories are dry. (3) The complexity in the sounds used per book doesn't build up gradually. (4) The books don't focus in a few particular sounds at a time.

Given all this, I decided to try the Songbirds series from the Oxford Reading Tree by Julia Donaldson, and it is much better. He feels a lot more confident when reading and doesn't find it -and I quote-, `boring'. He even wants to read them again and again, which is great for practice. The illustrations are very lively and we can talk a lot about them as well.

Also the teaching notes included in the Songbird series give a few good ideas to keep practising the sounds.

To summarise, I'll only use the Jolly Phonics level 1 set for children who already reading but need more practice.

Not a fan - but the order in which to learns letters is great
I have 4 children who each studied at 4 different schools during their nursery years. Oxford Reading Tree (for 2 children) proved to work extremely well, Jolly Phonics (for 0ther 2) did not so well, so with the 2 it didnt work well with I reverted back to ORT at home.

Must say, Jolly phonics, however, do suggest an excellent order in which to study the letters... ORT goes straight to words. I do give JP a big tick for that! Once letters have been worked out, ORT is bet next step to read, rather than JP range

6 of 1, half a dozen of other!!!

jolly phonics and readers
My son learned to read with the Jolly Phonics and Jolly Readers. At times we also used Oxford Reading Tree Read at Home, Songbirds and Usborne programmes, however, the Jolly Readers is by far the best. He is happy to read a Jolly Readers book most nights. He likes all the sets, Inky mouse characters, the non fiction and fiction. My daughter who is 3 has started with the Jolly Phonics books, CD and video and is now starting on the Red Level. The words used are very finely graded (unlike the Oxford reading Tree) so that progression happens very smoothly. Two further strengths are the slightly lighter font for tricky letters eg the e at the end of "have", and the tricky word tree at the back of each book means that he has learned a tricky word set by the end of each level. They also like to spend half hour or so on the computer game. The system isn't cheap, but we feel it is an investment because it has really worked well for our children. Jolly Readers: Complete Set Level 1