Rainbow Phonics School Kit 1st Grade

The Rainbow Phonics 1st Grade School Kit has been assembled for the complete implementation of our phonics program, reinforcing additional graphemes, alternative vowel sounds, sound families and more.

The Rainbow Phonics Teacher Planner for 1st Grade focuses on additional graphemes and alternative sounds. It also introduces the prefix -un and five suffixes. Teachers who have used Letters and Sounds will be familiar with the format of the daily and weekly lesson plans, in accordance with the progression. A calendar in the front maps out all the lessons for the year. Resources are presented on the right-hand page throughout the planner and these link directly to the lesson plan.

Starting with Phase 5, covering a further 19 graphemes that mainly cover vowel sounds and alternative spellings of these such as the split digraph. Throughout the year a significant amount of teaching is dedicated to sound families. Here, the focus is on a common phoneme and the various ways that phoneme can be spelt.

This School Kit includes multiple copies of our 12-Book Decodable Reader Sets from Phases 5 and 5.5 in both Fiction and Non-Fiction titles. The School Kit includes multiple copies of our 12-Book Decodable Reader Sets in a variety of genres and represents exceptional value for money. The kit also includes a range of supplementary resources for reaffirming the skills taught in the planner and throughout the decodable readers.
See the 'Kit Components' tab for exact quantities of each.

The Rainbow Phonics program by Junior Learning and Beanstalk Books is a systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) program designed for children in Pre-K to Grade 2 (Phases 1 to 6). It includes a progression of Common Exception Words (also termed Heart Words or tricky words) alongside letter progression, allowing children to encounter words with different spelling patterns but similar phonemes. Our program has the largest collection of decodable readers and supplementary resources – all following the progression.