Understand how words work together.
Build clear, meaningful and engaging sentences.
Use language accurately and creatively.
Jolly Literacy builds on the foundations developed through phonics and takes children towards stronger reading, spelling, comprehension and creative writing. The programme helps children understand how English works and apply their knowledge confidently in real reading and writing situations.
Master key spelling patterns, vowel sounds and blends while discovering nouns, adjectives, adverbs and plurals.
Explore new spelling patterns and syllables while developing comparatives, prepositions, conjunctions and essential dictionary skills.
Expand spelling knowledge with suffixes while learning about collective nouns, tenses, paragraphs and the subject and object of a sentence.
Explore concrete, abstract and possessive nouns, clauses, subject-verb agreement, infinitives and the structure of well-formed sentences.
Develop sentence construction through sentence walls, prepositional phrases, compound subjects and objects, irregular plurals, synonyms and antonyms.
Develop advanced spelling and grammar through prefixes, suffixes, schwas, sentence structure, new parts of speech, idioms and formal and informal writing.
Reading fluency
Reading comprehension
Spelling
Grammar
Vocabulary
Sentence structure
Punctuation
Word formation
Written expression
Language usage