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 is provided in the front to plan out lessons for the year. Resources are presented on the right-hand page throughout the planner and these link directly to the lesson plan.
The Planner begins with Phase 5, covering a further 19 graphemes that mainly cover vowel sounds and alternative spellings of these such as the spilt 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.
Decodable readers are introduced closely are new graphemes or sound families are introduced. These are presented in the weekly lesson plans.