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Writer's pictureMelanie Cossins

Helping Children to Read and Write

If you work in Early Years or Primary education you will know all about phonics. Phonics is a method used for teaching reading and writing of the English language and helps children develop phonemic awareness – how letters sound. In Jolly Phonics there are 42 letter sounds which are shown in groups in the table below.

Click for group 2

These sounds are very important in the English language and songs and rhymes are fantastic for developing phonemic awareness.

You can hear the sounds here

https://www.jollylearning.co.uk/resource-bank-old/learn-the-letter-sounds/

Just like in Jolly Phonics, where learning is multi sensory, learning songs and rhymes using the Kodály approach is also multi sensory. Jolly Music is a fantastic selection of books in the Jolly learning series written by top British Kodály tutors Cyrilla Rowsell and David Vinden.

Here are my top songs and rhymes for helping children’s speech and phonemic awareness of course there are many, many more! I have highlighted some of the sounds to show you where they occur.

Copy Cat, Copy Cat

Sitting on a door m at

https://soundcloud.com/melanie-cossins/copy-cat-lowermp3/s-WkgkF

Cuck oo where are you

Here I am I see you

https://soundcloud.com/melanie-cossins/cuckoo-where-r-ump3/s-Pfg13

Jelly on a plate

Jelly on a plate

Wibble, wobble, wibble, wobble

Jelly on a plate

Flutter, flutter butterfly

Flutter off into the sky

Flutter, flutter very fast

Wave to me as you go past

Bye, bye butterfly

Burney Bee, Burney Bee

Say when will your wedding be?

If it be tomorrow day

Raise your wings and fly away.

Doggie, Doggie where’s your bone

Someone stole it from my home

Who stole your bone?

I stole your bone

https://soundcloud.com/melanie-cossins/doggie-doggie-readymp3/s-coh7n

Cobbler, Cobbler mend my shoe

Get it done by half past two

Half past two is much too late

Get it done by half past eight

https://soundcloud.com/melanie-cossins/cobbler-cobbler-ready-steadymp3-1/s-m40kM

Rain is falling down

Rain is falling down

Pitter, patter, pitter, patter

Rain is falling down

https://soundcloud.com/melanie-cossins/rain-is-falling-splashmp3

Engine, Engine number nine

Going down (Chicago) line

If the train should leave the track

Will I get my money back?

Yes, no, maybe so.

https://soundcloud.com/melanie-cossins/engine-engine-off-we-gomp3/s-8NZdk

Teddy bear, Teddy bear turn around

Teddy bear, teddy bear touch the ground

Teddy bear, teddy bear show your shoe

Teddy bear, Teddy bear that will do

Chop, chop, choppity chop

Chop off the bottom and chop off the top

What we have left we will put in the pot

Chop, chop choppity chop.

Fishy, Fishy in the brook

Daddy catch him with a hook

Mummy fry him in a pan

Baby eat him like a man!

Fuzzy, wuzzy, was a bear

Fuzzy, wuzzy, had no hair

Fuzzy, wuzzy, wasn’t really

Fuzzy wuz he?


Jack be nimble, Jack be quick

Jack jump over the candlestick

One, two, three, whee!

https://soundcloud.com/melanie-cossins/jack-be-nimble-1mp3/s-EkurS

Five fat sausages

Sizzling in a pan

All of a sudden

One went bang!

Enjoy using these songs many of which can be found in Jolly Music get your copy here!

There are lots more songs on Think Cre8tive Group's The Daily Smile

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