Jolly Phonics Course -The Complete Course

About This Course

Help children take their first confident steps in reading and writing through clear, practical Jolly Phonics teaching.

Are you an early years’ teacher, primary educator, teaching assistant, school leader or parent who wants to understand how to teach children letter sounds, early reading and spelling?

This course guides you through the core skills of Jolly Phonics, a systematic synthetic phonics approach, using explanations and practical teaching examples.

Led by Dr Tina Udoji, an experienced educator and international Jolly Phonics trainer, the course is designed to help you understand not only the sounds and skills to teach, but also how to present them to beginning readers in manageable steps.

What You Will Learn

1. Teach the 42 Jolly Phonics letter sounds, including digraphs, using clear pronunciation, stories, actions, and multisensory techniques.

2. Guide children in correct letter formation and develop foundational handwriting skills through practical teaching activities.

3. Teach children how to blend letter sounds to decode words and build early reading confidence.

4. Develop children's spelling skills by teaching them to identify, segment, and represent individual sounds in spoken words.

5. Introduce tricky words and alternative spellings using structured, engaging, and child-friendly teaching strategies.

6. Plan and deliver effective synthetic phonics lessons that integrate letter sounds, reading, spelling, and early writing skills.
   

How The Course Is Organized

You will begin with the foundations of phonics and the Jolly Phonics methodology, then move through the letter sounds and core skills.

Teaching examples address areas such as distinguishing c and k, teaching vowel spellings, and understanding voiced and unvoiced th.

Additional lessons uploaded in 2025 and April 2026 explore sound - letter connections, blending, segmenting, onset and rime, two-syllable words and word-building activities.


What Is Included

The current course listing shows approximately five hours of on-demand video across 38 lectures, organized into 20 sections, together with 99 downloadable resources.

You can work through the lessons at your own pace and revisit demonstrations as needed.

The listing also includes a Udemy certificate of completion.

Detailed Course Breakdown

As you can see, this course is updated frequently with new lessons, projects and resources!

Introduction & Foundations

• Lesson 1: Introduction to Phonics for Teaching Children to Read and Write

• Lesson 2: Introduction to the Jolly Phonics Methodology

• Lesson 3: The Proven Teaching Method: How to Structure Your Lessons
  

  FROM SOUNDS TO LETTERS: READING AND WRITING IN ACTION

  NEW! April 2026 Update

  • NEW! Lesson 1: Listening for Sounds in Words (with letters): Connecting auditory phonemes directly to their visual graphemes for faster recognition.

  • NEW! Lesson 2: Rhyming with Letters: Mastering word families and identifying visual patterns in rhyming pairs.

  • NEW! Lesson 3: Alliteration with Letters: Using initial letter sounds to build phonetic awareness and playful language skills.

  • NEW! Lesson 4: Sentence Building with Letters: Moving from isolated sounds to constructing complete, meaningful thoughts.

  • NEW! Lesson 5: Reading and Writing Two-Syllable Words: Techniques for "chunking" longer words to maintain reading momentum.

  • NEW! Lesson 6: Blending Onsets and Rimes with Letters: Breaking words into their starting sounds and ending patterns (e.g., st-op) for smoother decoding.

  • NEW! Lesson 7: Identifying and Writing Beginning, Middle, and End Sounds: Mastering full-word analysis to ensure no sound is "skipped" during writing.

  • NEW! Lesson 8: Reading Short Words (Blending for Reading): The mechanical process of "pushing" sounds together to reveal the word.

  • NEW! Lesson 9: Spelling Short Words (Segmenting for Writing): Learning to pull words apart sound-by-sound to encode them onto paper.

  • NEW! Lesson 10: Word Building with Letter Changes (Manipulation): Developing "phonetic flexibility" by swapping single letters to create entirely new words (e.g., cat to cap to cup).

    
    
    

Phase 1: The Primary Letter Sounds

• Lesson 4: Week One: Mastering letter sounds s, a, t, and i

• Lesson 5: Week Two: Mastering letter sounds p, n, c, k, and e

• NEW! How to Differentiate Between C and K (Updated June 2025)

• Lesson 6: Week Three: Mastering letter sounds h, r, m, and d

• Lesson 7: Week Four: Mastering letter sounds g, o, u, and l

• Lesson 8: Week Five: Mastering letter sounds f, b, ai, and j

Phase 2: Complex Sounds & Vowel Digraphs

• Lesson 9: Week Six: Mastering letter sounds oa, ie, ee, and or

• NEW! Mastering the Alternatives of ie

• NEW! Teaching the Alternatives of oa

• NEW! Teaching the Difference Between ee and ea

• Lesson 10: Week Seven: Mastering letter sounds z, w, ng, and v

• NEW! How to Teach the Difference Between V and W

• Lesson 11: Week Eight: Mastering letter sounds oo, OO, y, and x

• NEW! The Double OO: How to Differentiate Between the Short and Long Sounds

Phase 3: Consonant Digraphs & Advanced Blending

• Lesson 12: Week Nine: Mastering letter sounds ch, sh, th, and th

• NEW! The Voiced vs. Unvoiced TH: Mastering the Two Sounds

• Lesson 13: Week Ten: Mastering letter sounds qu, ou, oi, and ue

• NEW! Mastering the Unique Sound of qu

• NEW! Teaching Advanced Alternatives: ue, u-e, and ew

• Lesson 14: Week Eleven: Mastering letter sounds er and ar
  

  
  

  
  

Conclusion & Mastery

• Lesson 15: Comprehensive Guide to Teaching All Alternative Sounds

• Lesson 16: The Master Recap: Reviewing All Lessons and Implementing Success Plans