I often ask the parents’ of my tutees what reading programme is being used at the child’s school. On one occasion the parent replied that it was ‘Polly Phonics’. I suggested that she might have misheard but she insisted that the teacher called the programme ‘Polly Phonics, not Jolly Phonics’. ‘The teacher does actions for the sounds and uses a parrot hand puppet’, she continued.
Curious, I set out to find more about this ‘new’ programme. Later that day I googled ‘Polly Phonics’, thinking that I would find nothing – but there it was at the top of the page www.pollyphonics.com
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