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Rainbow Reading |
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KS2-4 (P1-S1+)
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Special Needs
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Audio Assissted Learning
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What is Rainbow Reading?
The Rainbow Reading Programme has been designed to present students with a variety of topics, authors, styles and illustrations to make reading interesting while skills are improved.
Each story or article has been carefully selected because of its educational value and attraction to a wide range of students with varying needs and interests.
Rainbow Reading Books are:
- levelled,
- colour coded and
- accompanied by a specially recorded audio CD to provide support for readers.
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Also available:
- A comprehensive Teacher's Manual and Training Video to ensure that this is simple, yet effective programme can be easily implemented.
- Within the Teachers Manual you will find Cloze, Text Sequencing, Word Search, Writing and Dice Game sections which provide meaningful text-related activities.
- An Assessment Manual which features the titles of the books presented for teachers who can then take the Running Records to monitor progress, is also available.
Teaching Support Material:
- For assessing and improving comprehension.
- For practice in reading and following instructions.
- For improving spelling and word identification.
- For improvement in writing and reading.
- Training video for staff
Advantages to Rainbow Reading:
The Rainbow Reading Programme is non-threatening, supportive, interesting, enjoyable, easy to implement and effective at improving reading skills.
- A Special Needs Scheme.
- 140 carefully levelled Books all with audio support.
- For Key Stages 2-4.
- Builds fluency and comprehension through audio assisted learning.
- Teaching Support Materials
- Comprehensively evaluated and researched for effectiveness – click here for more
How Rainbow Reading will help you:
- Building fluency and comprehension through audio-assisted reading.
- Ideal for struggling readers and English language learners.
Rainbow Reading will facilitate success through:
- Providing clear audio models of fluent reading.
- Levelled high-interest books, by a variety of authors.
- Opportunities for students to reread in a supportive environment.
- One-to-one conferencing with teacher or tutor.
- Encouraging students to self-monitor and to read fluently, for meaning.
Can be used for Wave 3 intervention programmes such as Reading Recovery, Every Child A Reader, Catch Up, Better Reading, Hi Five. Click here for further details
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