Rainbow Reading and Writing

Annotations

Annotating or "marking up" the text helps with student comprehension. By making a color key, students can see the different aspects of annotations.

Students can easily identify the parts and quickly find information, enabling them to engage in peer discussions.

Thesis: Red
Main Ideas: Orange
Details: Green
Conclusion: Blue
Questions: Purple
Vocabulary: Pink

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​Example Key

How does this help in class?

Confidence

When students can quickly scan and find what your asking, it can make those who read slow able to quickly find their answer.

Example:
"What is the main idea of paragraph 4? What is one detail that supports the main idea?"

Question Evaluation

Students can read and colorize different parts of questions to highlight academic language and what the verb is asking them to do.

Text Evidence

If you are focusing on teaching text evidence, you can make a key for the types of evidence they are looking for such as opinions, facts, or quotes.

Transfer the Process

Using the color key students used for their reading passages allows them to visualize their writing. They can see the different parts for essay organization.

Short Constructed Responses

By teaching with colors, students can see all the parts of the RACE short answer to create a check off list.
Example:
Restate-red
Answer-orange
Cite-green
Explain-Blue

Show What They Know

Using the reading and RACE strategy helps the student visualize their organization and understand if they are missing any parts of their essay.

Sentence Revision

Having students practice with color writing in their sentences allows them to see where the subject/predicate, punctuation, and capitalization are needed.

Bibliography:
https://www.wikihow.com/Annotate-an-Article
https://www.ideasbyjivey.com/rainbow-editing-and-revising-freebie/
https://jwed.co.uk/grammar/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/478366791680429410/