Phonics in Action ©2024, available for grades K–2, is part of Loyola Press’s growing family of literacy products.

PIA provides systematic and explicit phonological and phonemic awareness and phonics instruction essential to student’s literacy success.

Rainbow collaborated with Loyola Press to conceptualize the program, including the Scope and Sequence. We then managed all editorial, design (including illustrations, photos, and covers), and production tasks through the release of final printer-ready files.

In addition to the print Student and Teacher Editions, Rainbow also produced Online Reteaching and Extend Reproducibles, Decodable Audio Stories, Professional Development Videos, and more.

Reading in Action ©2024, available for grades 1–8, integrates with Loyola Press’ Voyages in English curriculum to further promote grammar and writing skill mastery by leveraging the power of reading.

Teachers introduce thoughtfully curated high-interest readers while following a flexible five-step lesson structure that allows for the introduction of a new high-interest reader simultaneously alongside a new grammar concept or writing genre. RIA supports a learning center-based solution with small- or whole-group instruction.

Rainbow managed all editorial, design (including illustrations, photos, and covers), and production tasks through the release of final printer-ready files.

In addition to the print Teacher Editions, Rainbow also produced Interactive Online Assessments for the client’s Digital Library.

The Grade 6 Reading and Vocabulary Slides are designed to be used in connection with Into Reading ©2023, National Edition.

Rainbow’s team of literacy experts analyzed and converted content from existing student- and teacher-facing resources into instructional slides with teacher notes. We scrutinized content for classroom appropriateness and alerted the client of questionable content. Using PPT templates, Rainbow developed and designed ~2,400 slides.

OSMO™ Reading Adventure ©2022 uses speech recognition to create a personalized reading experience for early readers, complete with actual books and a “crystal wand.” Reading Adventure software interacts with the child to give personalized feedback, increasing reading proficiency.

Rainbow consulted with Tangible Play to provide a detailed analysis of the curriculum coverage, skill sequence, spiraling plan, reading levels, and pedagogical appropriateness of the program.

Based on Science of Reading, Foundations A-Z ©2022 delivers an explicit, research-based, K–5 foundational skills solution that integrates systematic, explicit instruction; clearly modeled lessons; and engaging skill-building opportunities.

Rainbow developed scripts for 768 student videos, 13,925 multisensory interactive games, and 2,340 end-of-unit and interim assessment items. In addition, our team handled image research for ~15,000 photos and illustrations across all components and grade levels.

Rainbow collaborated with the team at Ellevation on the development of 150+ ELLevation Math Online Primers (short lessons) that English Language Learners complete before math class in order to learn key academic vocabulary of a standards-aligned math unit.

These primers for Grades 3–5 were created in the context of mathematical concepts to solve a real-world problem relevant to a pre/adolescent audience.

In addition to content development, Rainbow oversaw the creation of 4,000+ illustrations and animation, and handled the production of audio files.

Rainbow provided a detailed skill alignment for the core texts and ancillary components of HMH’s Into Reading ©2020, Grades 1–6.

Rainbow’s highly-qualified team of Subject Matter Experts carefully reviewed and analyzed over 12,000 resources, including reading and writing workshop teacher guides, anchor charts, projectable content, student texts, and printable worksheets to determine the essential skills covered within each.

These skill-based metadata tags created by Rainbow’s team enable teachers to quickly and accurately search and identify resources within the Into Reading program that can then be used for targeted skill instruction based on student assessment and performance.

Rainbow developed assessment passages and items to be used in conjunction with The College Board’s SpringBoard English Language Arts ©2020-2021, Grades 9–12 (Texas Edition) and Grades 6–8, English I, English II, English III, English IV (National Edition).

The assessment program is designed to assist students to develop and refine skills in critical thinking, close reading, and writing in various genres.

At each grade level, Rainbow developed content for two separate types of assessments—Activity Quizzes and Unit Assessments. Activity Quizzes are designed to assess students’ understanding of the Learning Targets and Focus Standards taught in each activity. Unit Assessments are longer cumulative assessments that test students’ understanding of the reading, writing, and language standards taught throughout an entire unit.

Rainbow’s team of assessment experts handled start-to-finish passage and item development including analysis of existing items and creation of Blueprint planning documents. Rainbow handled the literature search for permissioned text stimuli as well as developed new content for commissioned text stimuli. Item types, developed in Learnosity’s authoring tool, included multiple-choice, multi-select, two-part, drag and drop, highlighting, and matching.

All items are aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for the Texas edition or the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for the National edition.

Rainbow handled development of approximately 25 passages 600+ multiple-choice and technology-enhanced items focused on reading and writing skills to be used in connection with HMH’s Into Reading ©2020, Grades 2–5.

Our team of assessment experts developed short reading passages and crafted multiple-choice and constructed response items. Each constructed response item contained an item-specific rubric. For the writing portion of the assessment, our team created embedded error passages and multiple-choice questions designed to assess students’ knowledge of grammar, usage, revising, and editing.

Rainbow also handled art and photo searches for any passages that required graphic stimuli or support.

All passages and items were designed to reflect those found on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) tests and were aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).

Rainbow’s team of assessment experts handled the development of approximately 300 passages and 1,500 multiple-choice and technology-enhanced items to be used in connection with HMH’s Into Reading ©2020, Grades K–5.

Passages at grades 2–5 were written to meet grade-specific Lexile ranges, and the items at all grade levels were aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), and the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL). All passages and items were created using the online authoring tool Learnosity.

For kindergarten, Rainbow’s team created fiction and nonfiction listening comprehension passages with corresponding multiple-choice items. Our team also developed stand-alone, multiple-choice items to assess phonics and high-frequency words.

For first grade, Rainbow developed decodable fiction and nonfiction reading passages with corresponding multiple-choice items. In addition to these passage-specific items, our team also created stand-alone items to assess phonics, high-frequency words, and grammar.

At grades 2–5, Rainbow created fiction and nonfiction reading passages and multiple-choice, constructed response, multi-select, ordering, and matching items associated with each passage. Our team also created embedded error passages with corresponding multiple-choice items.