Rainbow Reading

08/28/2023

🌈 Sharing a special story written by a special Rainbow Reading family

📚Betta Fish Ninja and the Golden Fish Food by Alex & Matt Goeringer

Betta Fish Ninja is on a mission to find his long-lost brother. On his journey, he encounters water creatures that are potentially risky to reaching his goal. Utilizing the essential teachings of Master Octopus, he can transform and transcend each obstacle, ultimately reuniting with his brother in what turns out to be an adventurous game of hide and seek.

Vivid illustrations complement this narrative by Alex Goeringer, who originally wrote this story when he was six. Alex teamed up with his father, Matt Goeringer, to recreate the story with unique illustrations. This creative father-and-son duo has written a fun and imaginative picture book that will no doubt encourage other inspiring authors and illustrators of any age, to fulfill his or her own dream of publishing a creative story to share with the world! You can find this picture book on Amazon.

08/25/2023

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. 🌈

08/21/2023

08/19/2023

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.

08/17/2023

🌈 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

08/09/2023

Grammar instruction is valuable.

✏️Educators can link writing and comprehension instruction in multiple opportunities. Intentional grammar instruction should be explicit, systematic, and sequential and integrated into reading and writing activities. When activities and strategies are presented and practiced with syntactic skills at the word, phrase, clause, and sentence level, overall comprehension can be improved.

✏️ "Studies over the years have shown a clear relationship between syntactic or grammatical sophistication and reading comprehension; that is, as students learn to employ more complex sentences in their oral and written language, their ability to make sense of what they read increases, too." -Shanahan, 2013

08/05/2023

Someday, Maybe written by Diana Murray and Illustrated by Jessica Gibson. 🚀Flying cars, smart homes, space balloons, and hypersonic drones seem like unbelievable futuristic inventions; But these creatively imagined experiences will happen someday, maybe. Readers will be sure to enjoy a creative thinking and inspirational story about the ingenious ideas of a group of young children as they explore their role in our future world. Vivid illustrations compliment the visionary inventors' futuristic concepts like a robotic rock band, x-ray glasses, and lunar labs. This book will no doubt spark incredible wonder and excitement about future possibilities, some of which are already being studied and developed today! Murray and Gibson invent the perfect narrative to ignite a child's idea of the age-old question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Someday, Maybe offers the audience "out of this world" ideas and ample opportunity for conversation regarding all of life's wildest potential and possibilities. This book is highly recommended to little people with big dreams!

08/02/2023

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

07/30/2023

An award winning pie baker suddenly dies and she leaves the recipe to her cat Lardo! Many suspects are after the recipe and everybody is suspicious to who stole the cat, the shop key, and who will become Ipswich’s next successful pie baker! I am reading this wonderful mystery with a Take- Flight student and we are totally obsessed! Reading connected text is one of many essential components of the Take Flight comprehensive dyslexia intervention! And it’s one of my favorites as students have ample opportunity to apply all the literacy skills they have learned to a new text! 🌈

07/28/2023

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

07/26/2023

For a person with dyslexic thinking, the saying "the sky is the limit" does not apply. 🚀

07/25/2023

Enroll your child in an intensive, 100-lesson K-1st grade early reading intervention from the Scottish Rite Children's Hospital and Luke Waites Dyslexia Center. Students enrolled in BUILD will be immersed in learning opportunities to strengthen alphabet, letter and sound knowledge, phonological awareness, vocabulary, and comprehension. Semi-private sessions are available and will begin the week of September 11th and extend throughout the new school year. For more information, reach out via email to [email protected]. Sign up today! www.therainbowreading.com