Jolly Grammar Level 1 course

This course teaches the structure part of the English language in an active, multisensory and child-friendly way. This includes parts of speech, spelling, punctuation and more.

This Jolly Grammar Course is the next stage after Jolly Phonics.

In the first stage of the children’s literacy journey – Jolly Phonics, the children were taught how to read and write by learning the 42 main letter sounds of the English Language, blend the letter sounds to make words, recognize the sounds in spoken words in order to spell and write correctly, learnt how to form their letters correctly as well as other literacy skills.

This course will teach the broader skills for learners to be able to communicate effectively:

• Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling will be systematically and incrementally taught,
• Phonic knowledge will be reinforced and extended,
• Vocabulary will be expanded,
• Comprehension improved,
• Parts of speech and verb tenses introduced,
• Morphemes such as prefixes and suffixes will be clearly taught,
• Word meaning such as comparatives and superlatives clearly taught.

The teaching is active and multisensory, with colours and actions for parts of speech.

Course Goals

• Reinforce and extend phonic knowledge.
• Teach spelling systematically.
• Expand vocabulary and improve comprehension.
• Introduce parts of speech and verb tenses.
• Introduce morphemes, such as prefixes and suffixes.
• Enable the children to analyse and parse text.
• Introduce syntax and sentence structure.
• Develop the children’s use of punctuation.
• Develop the children’s dictionary and thesaurus skills.