“BOB Books® have been helping children learn to read for more than 40 years. This workbook has more than 90 pages of fun activities (matching, word mazes, writing practice, decodable stories, and more) to help children strengthen their early phonics skills!” – Scholastic, Inc.
Rainbow outlined the content of the 94-page workbook to align with BOB Books® Stage 1 phonics learn-to-read boxed sets and flash cards, or by any child who is just starting to sound out (decode) words.
Rainbow then developed manuscript; designed the cover wrap and interior pages; spec’d and placed art; and handled multiple production review passes through release of packaged INDD source files.
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.
Rainbow performed an editorial DEI Review of 137 decodable passages that are part of 95PG’s Phonics Lesson Library.
Based on the outcome of the DEI Review, Rainbow then revised or rewrote passages, as needed, while maintaining strict decodabilty percentages.
Once approved, Rainbow proofread and produced error-free, print-ready Teacher and Student Passages using client-provided design templates.
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’s team of early childhood specialists handled editorial content development, including all production review passes, for Phonics Practice Masters to be used in conjunction with Scholastic’s EDGE ©2018 literacy program.
As another example of Rainbow’s “soup-to-nuts” development capabilities, our team handled all phases of development for the Multi-Session Phonics Packets, Grades K–2, on Reading-Tutors.com. The ideation phase included the creation of a final Scope and Sequence for phonics instruction across the program, assigning new target elements and high-frequency words as the focus of each lesson, and identifying which elements to review from previous lessons.
The development phase included creating prototypes, developing content built to the Common Core State Standards, and handling all design and production, including illustrations and image tracking, for the following components: Teacher Guide Lesson Plans, Picture Cards, High-Frequency Word Cards, Sound/Letter Mats, Letter Cards, Phonics Practice Sheets, and Progress Report Forms.
When Steck-Vaughn wanted a new phonics program that would introduce Kindergarten children to beginning phonics in a developmentally appropriate way, they asked Rainbow to come up with the plan and prototype for this program. We worked with the editorial and design teams to develop the concept of First Time Phonics ©1991, and went on to create the entire program start to finish, which became one of Steck-Vaughn’s leading brands and most successful products to date.
Modern Curriculum Press had traditionally been the brand and the model that educators looked to for classic phonics instruction. As other educational publishers tried to emulate MCP methods and success with their own programs, MCP decided to stay a step ahead by introducing innovative hands-on activities into their phonics curriculum. They hired Rainbow to add the creative spark to the iconic MCP Phonics (Plaid Series) ©1987, which then launched the program to many more years of unparalleled success in the reading world.