Abstract
Having strong foundation in English literacy nowadays is believed to be a very crucial requirement for the children to survive and success both in educational and social lives. One of the most effective strategies for enhancing children’s early reading and literacy skill is through Jolly Phonics. Despite the popularity and its effectiveness, there is still factor to the absence of the strategy, namely lack of teacher knowledge. This paper is intended to share the techniques of how to implement Jolly Phonics strategy for teaching and developing children’s English literacy. This study was conducted in one of innovative bilingual schools in Denpasar, Bali. The study employed descriptive qualitative method as a research design and used observation, documentation and interview to collect the data from the teacher. The findings showed that the teacher had successfully implement the 5 skills in Jolly Phonics, namely (1) learning the letter sounds, (2) learning letter formation, (3) blending-for reading, (4) identifying sounds in words-for writing and (5) tricky words, through variety of enjoyable techniques involving children’s sight, sound and kinesthetic means. Thus, implementing Jolly Phonics through techniques explained will improve children’s overall English literacy skill.
Highlights
The term literacy has become a very crucial terms in education during the last few decades
As states by Roskos, Christie & Richgels, extensive research in the field of literacy, research on literacy development of young children has been conducted and becoming a basis for everyday practice [5]. This is because having a strong foundation in literacy, English literacy is very beneficial for the continuity of children’s life, as today English is used as lingua franca and international language of communications
The teacher adapted the program into longer one, due to the children’s multicultural language background, so the section for the sounds introduction were maximized by introducing only 1-3 sounds per week. This action was in accordance with Ehri, et al and Boyadzhyan who propose that phonics should be systematically taught as a part of literacy program and, it should be adapted based on children’s ability [8, 1]
Summary
The term literacy has become a very crucial terms in education during the last few decades. Mullins points out that many children struggle to decode words [2] In this case, one of the most effective strategies that could be used to enhance children’s early reading and literacy skill is Jolly Phonics. As well as Farokhbakht & Nejadansari have conducted a study to see the effectiveness of Jolly Phonics in improving the children’s early English literacy. This study was carried out to assist teachers on how to develop and enhance children’s English literacy skill through Jolly Phonics strategy. This paper is expected to be able to inspire other teachers on how to develop and enhance children’s early English literacy through Jolly Phonics strategy
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