Rainbow Phonics School Kit K

The Rainbow Phonics K School Kit has been designed to give an entire school the components needed for implementing our phonics program across multiple classrooms, introducing the first set of letter sounds and early decoding skills.

The Rainbow Phonics Teacher Planner for K provides daily and weekly lesson plans based on the progression of our program. A calendar in the front maps out all the lessons for the year. Resources included are designed to work according to the daily lessons as the letters are introduced, rather than consolidated at the end of the phase. The Teacher Planner also brings in decodable readers and introduces these closely after letter sounds have been taught to apply newly learnt letter knowledge to real reading.

Our progression moves from Phase 2 where early letter sounds correspondences are introduced, to Phase 3 where more complex vowel digraphs are taught. Following this, Phase 4 is also included to teach CCVC and CVCC structures (adjacent consonants) as well as multi-syllable words.

This School Kit includes multiple copies of our 12-Book Decodable Reader Sets in Phases 2, 3 and 4 in a variety of genres. Fiction, Non-Fiction, Science and Hi-Lo titles will offer your school an abundance of variety for all interests. Also included are our Fiction and Non-Fiction sets of Decodable Big Books, offering a larger book format perfect for whole classroom reading. Rounding out the kit is a range of manipulatives and supplementary resources that are designed as part of the lessons in the Teacher Planners.
See the 'Kit Components' tab for exact quantities of each.

Within the program there is a focus on handwriting formation and uppercase letters and a strong emphasis on Common Exception Words (also termed Heart Words or tricky words). Common Exception Words (CEWs) have been ordered in their own progression, which runs in parallel to the letter progression. This allows for multiple CEWs to be presented with different spelling patterns but similar phonemes so that children can see the exception components as well the decodable components. Children are empowered to phonemically analyse new words from their grapheme-to-phoneme knowledge and to identify irregular elements as they occur.