Smith-Brock Phonics Consulting
Teacher Training & Private Tutoring
Jennie Smith-Brock
These programs provide remarkable tools for children’s facility with the English writing system.
What is Jolly Phonics?
Jolly Phonics is a systematic, multisensory beginning reading and writing program that has completely transformed the trajectory of children’s learning in schools in the United States and around the world.
What is Jolly Grammar?
Jolly Grammar and Spelling (Grades 1 - 6) is a systematic and multi-sensory program. Spelling, punctuation, morphemes, parts of speech, and sentence development are taught explicitly and address Common Core Language Standards.
What is Abecedarian?
The ABeCeDarian Reading Program is a systematic, multisensory decoding program that rapidly develops a student’s ability to read text accurately and fluently. Comprehensive, yet fast-paced, the program explicitly targets weaknesses of struggling or at-risk readers.
Summer 2025 Jolly Phonics 3 x 2-hour Webinar Series
Summer 2025 Jolly Phonics webinar series
Jolly Phonics 3 x 2-hour Webinar Series
Tues. Aug 5, Wed. Aug. 6, & Thurs. Aug. 7
9:00am-11:00am
or 3-part recorded series $150.00
New this year:
30-minute follow-up live virtual Q&A/Review sessions throughout the year
● Teaches the full spectrum of 42 sounds (not just 26 sounds of the alphabet)
● Actions & songs for each phoneme
● Seamlessly incorporates handwriting & spelling, alongside reading & writing
● Develops phonemic awareness & orthographic-mapping skills
● Whole-class Tier 1 (Pre-K, K, 1), Intervention, SpEd, & ELL
● Straightforward and uncomplicated teacher training
● Teaches “sight words” via sound-to-print method
● Decodable texts
● Research-validated (& we’ll delve into results from New England, USA)
Introduction
Providing an important overview of the Jolly Phonics Program
Part 2
Day-to-day Jolly Phonics Lessons: Term 1 (typically the Fall term)
Part 3
Terms 2 & 3 (Winter & Spring)
What Our Customers Have to Say
Student (age 5)
“I want to go home and do MORE Jolly Phonics! I want to do Jolly Phonics all the way until dinner!
– Student (age 5)
Kaylen Beary, Acton, Maine
Teaching Jolly Phonics is my favorite part of the day!
– Kaylen Beary, Acton, Maine
Elizabeth Robins, Ed.D
Do thank Jennie for her comprehensive, articulate and well-paced overview of the Jolly Phonics program. It is impressive that the program, created by Sue Lloyd in 1992, is still ahead of the curve in its effectiveness and resource materials all these decades later.
Carrie Carter (Gray, Maine)
I have never seen this kind of understanding in all the years I have taught young readers.
I am amazed with the progress and growth.
Thank you so much for inspiring me to love to teach reading and writing and for having a lively, appropriate program that children can’t wait to use.
Juanita DeWitt (retired teacher, Portland, Maine)
I am seeing amazing results. The children are highly engaged, making great progress, and enjoying themselves as they learn.
I want to thank you for introducing me to the Jolly Phonics program, for providing me with support and guidance and for sharing my passion for evidence-based phonics instruction.
Shirley Dempsey (Windham, Maine)
This training is the best PD I have connected so much with in a long time. Throughout the training, I could picture which students would benefit from it and how I would use it effectively.