Rainbow Reading

Early intervention is key to reading success. Just look at what the research says about the time and practice needed for students to reach automatic letter reading.

It is essential for students to solidify their knowledge and identification of letters and sounds at an early age...and to become speedy at it too.

Letter-naming speed is influenced by a variety of learned skills and cognitive abilities. These include:

*phonological awareness
*orthographic recognition
*general naming speed
*visual attention skills

Why is this important?

These are the same skills and abilities needed to read words. Letter reading AND word reading requires children to utilize these multiple sources of knowledge and exact coordination of cognitive systems.

If you have a little one struggling in this area, an early and intensive intervention is highly recommended. 🌈

It is super valuable to teach students the purpose of a narrative text and the basic elements of story grammar. This includes elements related to a problem that the main character encounters and attempts to resolve. Story structure instruction should look different for varying age groups. Students who struggle with dyslexia and dysgraphia benefit greatly when story structure can be retold using a visual graphic organizer such as the one featured here. 📚The purpose of teaching narrative story structure is to provide the schema necessary for the reader to work through the text, as knowing the familiar story structure of narrative text becomes predictable and it sets a purpose.

🌈 Letter knowledge is essential for reading success. Students must be accurate in their knowledge of letters', shapes, names, and the phonemes they represent. Inaccurate, incomplete, or inconsistent letter knowledge will jeopardize a student's ability to unitize letter sequences that can be recognized automatically. My students ❤️ these uppercase and lowercase letter stamps from

Working on our beginning sounds with a fun animal bingo 🐅🐄🐙 . Students enrolled in the Little Rainbow 🌈 Rays ☀️ Literacy camp participated in learning opportunities to strengthen alphabet, letters and sounds, handwriting, phonological awareness, and listening comprehension this summer. If you are interested to learn more about upcoming classes during the s hooo year, sign up to the email list at
www.therainbowreading.com

It’s a magical 🪄 day today practicing letter formation with the cutest little unicorn! 🦄