What is the RAINBOW?
The RAINBOW is a reading comprehension tool to help students analyze literature. RAINBOW is an acronym for Reading Analytic Interactive Noted Bookmark of Wonderstanding! It is a marvelous tool to use teach students about the elements of literature and increase metacognitive awareness while reading. Using the RAINBOW gives students ownership of their reading adventures while teaching them to critically analyze the text.
How does one use the RAINBOW?
While reading the selection, the students mark the elements they find and the metacognitive strategies they are using with small color-coded sticky notes. This aides in an increased awareness of the literature. When the students meet with their book club or reading group to discuss the literature they are prepared to report on their findings and discuss literature in a meaningful way.The teacher, or leader, may make specific assignments to look for certain elements or the students can mark everything in all categories.
The RAINBOW BookmarkEach section of the RAINBOW is color-coded so the teacher and student can easily identify each element. Students mark the elements they notice while reading with small color-coded sticky notes.
Each RAINBOW contains the following sections:
Conflict
Types of Conflict
-Character vs. Character
-Character vs. Self
-Character vs. Nature
-Character vs. Society
-Character vs. Magic or Supernatural Powers
Connection
Types of Connections
-Text to Text
-Text to Self
-Text to World
Word Curiousity
-Students mark unfamiliar vocabulary or interesting word choice
Prediction
-Students mark text passages that cause them to make predictions
Clarification
-Students mark passages where they need clarification
Life Lesson
-Students mark lessons that apply to life in general
Author's Craft
-Students mark examples of author's craft including:
similie metaphor alliteration
personification word choice foreshadowing
cliffhanger hyperbole idiom
dialect flashback oxymoron
onomatopoeia aside imagery
symbolism pun stereotype
suspense denouement red herring
archaic language irony foil
The Creator
A 24 year veteran teacher, Suzanne Hachmeister has taught kindergarten through fifth graders, as well as preservice teachers at East Carolina University in the College of Education. Her career started at Elmhurst Elementary in 1986 teaching first grade but most of her career has been spent in gifted education. She was named Pitt County Schools Teacher of the Year in 1995-96, the North Carolina Association of Gifted Teacher of the Year in 1997 and currently serves as a Master Academically or Intellectually Gifted (AIG) teacher for the East Carolina University's AIG Team. Mrs. Hachmeister works in the ECU/PCS AIG Camp for elementary students each summer. She has served as an adjuct instructor for East Carolina University's College of Education for over 5 years.
Currently the Ridgewood Elementary AIG teacher and Pitt County Schools Lead Teacher, she enjoys presenting at local, national and international educationl conferences as well as creating curriculum and instructional resources.
The RAINBOW was created while teaching 4th and 5th grade AIG students in literature groups. The students gave feedback and ideas to refine the original prototype and were so excited about using them. A few other teachers saw them in Hachmeister's classroom and began asking questions and encouraged her to have them published for sale.
A few years later, the RAINBOW is copyrighted, professionally printed and available to other teachers!
Your students will love the RAINBOW and grow as readers as they practice predicting and clarifying while reading and identifying conflicts, word curiousity, connections, life lessons and examples of author's craft in literature. Students will gain a deeper understanding , awareness and love for literature when they use the RAINBOW bookmark system!
The RAINBOW is a reading comprehension tool to help students analyze literature. RAINBOW is an acronym for Reading Analytic Interactive Noted Bookmark of Wonderstanding! It is a marvelous tool to use teach students about the elements of literature and increase metacognitive awareness while reading. Using the RAINBOW gives students ownership of their reading adventures while teaching them to critically analyze the text.
How does one use the RAINBOW?
While reading the selection, the students mark the elements they find and the metacognitive strategies they are using with small color-coded sticky notes. This aides in an increased awareness of the literature. When the students meet with their book club or reading group to discuss the literature they are prepared to report on their findings and discuss literature in a meaningful way.The teacher, or leader, may make specific assignments to look for certain elements or the students can mark everything in all categories.
The RAINBOW BookmarkEach section of the RAINBOW is color-coded so the teacher and student can easily identify each element. Students mark the elements they notice while reading with small color-coded sticky notes.
Each RAINBOW contains the following sections:
Conflict
Types of Conflict
-Character vs. Character
-Character vs. Self
-Character vs. Nature
-Character vs. Society
-Character vs. Magic or Supernatural Powers
Connection
Types of Connections
-Text to Text
-Text to Self
-Text to World
Word Curiousity
-Students mark unfamiliar vocabulary or interesting word choice
Prediction
-Students mark text passages that cause them to make predictions
Clarification
-Students mark passages where they need clarification
Life Lesson
-Students mark lessons that apply to life in general
Author's Craft
-Students mark examples of author's craft including:
similie metaphor alliteration
personification word choice foreshadowing
cliffhanger hyperbole idiom
dialect flashback oxymoron
onomatopoeia aside imagery
symbolism pun stereotype
suspense denouement red herring
archaic language irony foil
The Creator
A 24 year veteran teacher, Suzanne Hachmeister has taught kindergarten through fifth graders, as well as preservice teachers at East Carolina University in the College of Education. Her career started at Elmhurst Elementary in 1986 teaching first grade but most of her career has been spent in gifted education. She was named Pitt County Schools Teacher of the Year in 1995-96, the North Carolina Association of Gifted Teacher of the Year in 1997 and currently serves as a Master Academically or Intellectually Gifted (AIG) teacher for the East Carolina University's AIG Team. Mrs. Hachmeister works in the ECU/PCS AIG Camp for elementary students each summer. She has served as an adjuct instructor for East Carolina University's College of Education for over 5 years.
Currently the Ridgewood Elementary AIG teacher and Pitt County Schools Lead Teacher, she enjoys presenting at local, national and international educationl conferences as well as creating curriculum and instructional resources.
The RAINBOW was created while teaching 4th and 5th grade AIG students in literature groups. The students gave feedback and ideas to refine the original prototype and were so excited about using them. A few other teachers saw them in Hachmeister's classroom and began asking questions and encouraged her to have them published for sale.
A few years later, the RAINBOW is copyrighted, professionally printed and available to other teachers!
Your students will love the RAINBOW and grow as readers as they practice predicting and clarifying while reading and identifying conflicts, word curiousity, connections, life lessons and examples of author's craft in literature. Students will gain a deeper understanding , awareness and love for literature when they use the RAINBOW bookmark system!