Simply Clap out while saying the words, “Jol - ly Jes- ter” with your student.

It is best to use a mirror with your student to modeling the letter sound. This is to better ensure correct mouth formation. Focus on the dominant forming aspects for the sound, Placing your hand upon your throat enables you to feel if the sound is a vibrating one or not.

The ‘j’ sound comes from a shifting of your jaw and teeth.

The throat vibrates with this sound.

(Remember that the letters Gg can make this sound sometimes too, when one of their friends, Ii, Ee, or Yy stand behind them in a word.)

(w/Alphabet Banner)

Parent/instructor first model pointing to by touching each letter as the song is being sung. This is a fun way of using rhythm to strengthen retaining the names of the letters while building an understanding of Alphabetical Order concept as well. Be sure to clarify each time by saying, “Let’s sing the names of the letters in alphabetical order.” After a while, when the student is able, he/she then becomes the pointer to each letter as they are being sung.

Role-playing enables one to feel the shape of each letter in one’s own body. Identifying to how the letter looks and emotionally feels is yet, another way for stimulating long-term memory retainment.

[Be sure to refer to the People Line Banner for directional understanding while pretending to be the letters.]

TIPS:

• The Capital Letter:

  turns his smile towards the front because his job as a jester is to make people happy. At the count of three, let’s laugh so hard that it would make our hat cover our eyes. 1 - 2 - 3… LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!! [Say sound prompt.]

• The Small Letter:

  has a magic eye floating over his head. Let’s imagine popping it out and juggling with it. Then pop it back up into that space above our heads. He scoots down to keep his hat from covering his magic eye and also smile towards the front, like his Dad. [Say sound prompt.]