FOR SCHOOLS & ORGANISATIONS
Train your school team
Build a shared approach to phonics. Plan training around your curriculum, learners and staff experience.
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JOLLY PHONICS TRAINING IN JAPAN
Jolly Phonics.
Confident teaching starts here.
Teach with a clearer plan, from the first letter sounds to independent reading and writing. Learn with Atsuko Maruyama, a Jolly Phonics & Jolly Literacy Official Trainer working with teachers and schools in Japan.
Training in English and Japanese · School teams, teachers and parents
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What brings you to JSS?
FOR TEACHERS & PARENTS
Develop your teaching
Start with the foundations or work on a specific teaching challenge, through practical workshops.
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Find books & materials
Browse Jolly Learning books and teaching resources. You can buy materials without booking training.
Shop books & materialsOFFICIAL TRAINER + OFFICIAL DISTRIBUTOR
Resources and teaching.
Connected by experience.
Atsuko Maruyama is a Jolly Phonics & Jolly Literacy Official Trainer and runs JSS as an official distributor. Her experience connects resource information with what happens in a classroom or at home.
- 01International exchange
Publisher, authors and fellow educators
- 02Local classroom experience
Daily teaching and staff training
- 03Choose, teach and review
Connected resource and teaching advice
JOLLY CLASSROOM + JSS SUPPORT
Digital lessons.
A plan for teaching them.
Explore Jolly Learning’s digital platform for phonics and literacy. JSS can help you connect the resources to your learners, lesson routines and staff training.
Explore the four-sound week and new features →Licensing and pricing confirmed by quotation. Training and ongoing support are optional and quoted separately.
From resource to lesson
- 01Choose
Match content to your learners.
- 02Teach
Connect demonstrations, practice and books.
- 03Review
Check understanding and plan the next step.
TEACHING ENGLISH IN JAPAN
Local experience.
Practical classroom decisions.
Working with Japanese-speaking learners involves more than presenting an English-language resource. Sound distinctions, unfamiliar vocabulary and reading or writing difficulties can all affect how children take part.
Atsuko draws on daily teaching and training for Japanese and international-school teachers to discuss explanations, activities and ways to check understanding.
- Training delivered in English or Japanese
- Examples grounded in classroom practice
- Attention to learners who find literacy difficult
SELECTED TRAINING & SPEAKING EXPERIENCE
See the work behind the training.
Examples from university training and public education events.
A CLOSER LOOK
A little curiosity. A new discovery.
Explore the books, then open a teaching idea to picture how you could use them.
TRACE & SAYA letter you can explore.
Look closely at the letters and illustrations in Finger Phonics. Connect what you see with the sound you say.
Open a teaching idea
Trace the letter, practise its sound together, then explore words in the picture that use that sound.
NOTICE & CONNECTOpen a page. Start a conversation.
Colourful scenes and letters give you a starting point for an engaging, shared lesson.
Open a teaching idea
Talk about the picture, find familiar letters and sounds, and use children’s observations to lead into reading and writing practice.
READ & ENJOYFrom sounds to stories.
Turn practice into the pleasure of reading a story, with books matched to the sounds already taught.
Open a teaching idea
Choose a book with familiar sound–spelling patterns, practise reading the words and make time to talk about the story.
Photography: official Jolly Learning materials. Teaching ideas are illustrative suggestions from JSS. Check editions, levels and availability on the product pages.
EXPLORE THE MATERIALS
Picture your next lesson.
A few examples from the range. Check editions, levels and included materials on each product page.
Jolly Phonics
Jolly Literacy
Jolly English
Decodable ReadersA LITTLE TRY. A NEW PERSPECTIVE.
Watch sounds
become a word.
Explore blending and segmenting with a hands-on visual example of the approach taught in training.
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About Jolly Phonics sounds
Explore the sounds in sat.
PHONICS PLAYGROUNDTRY IT YOURSELF
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Say each letter sound
Use the letter sounds, rather than the letter names.
A visual example of the method. Training includes pronunciation and teaching practice.
PLAN YOUR NEXT STEP
Tell us about your learners.
Share your teaching setting, goals and questions. We can discuss a suitable training approach and confirm the scope, dates and fees.