Most educators usually use Rainbow Arc Mats for special education, early intervention, and occupational therapy classrooms. Undoubtedly, Rainbow Arc Mats are great for alphabet sequencing activities for dyslexic students. As I have said, it is a powerful hands-on tool for kids with special educational needs.
How does rainbow arc work?
Basically, a student gets a set of letters (uppercase or lowercase) and places the letters in the correct places on the rainbow arc mat. Most arcs usually feature consonants in blue and vowels in red.
How can this tool help students?
Rainbow Arc Activity Mats help improve different skills of primary students in a fun way:
- visual discrimination skills
- sequencing skills
- letter recognition skills
- phonics skills
- fine motor skills
- consonant and vowel discrimination
Rainbow Arc tool is certainly suitable for one-to-one teaching, independent work, small groups, homeschooling, and literacy centers. Teachers can also use it as writing mats for letter formation!
Various rainbow arcs
Some educational companies produce magnetic rainbow arcs or arcs with a durable dry-wipe coating. Because SPED educators use it to teach dyslexic students, the fonts of the letters should be dyslexia-friendly (Comic Sans, Open Dyslexic, etc.). Why? You should definitely read about dyslexia-friendly fonts in this blog post!
Great news!
At any rate, you don’t have to buy an expensive magnetic Rainbow Arc! You can get it in my store, print it, laminate, cut the letters and start teaching! I have indeed created my rainbow arcs in various designs (color, black-and-white, outlined) so that they will suit any teaching style! I used only the Open Dyslexic font. With attention to special students, the letters are particularly big and readable. With this in mind, I have also created a fall (autumn) version of a rainbow arc mat! You can have a look at it here.
Without a doubt, Rainbow Arc Mat is a hands-on, powerful, and lifelong tool for any special education educator! Summing up, it is definitely worth introducing into occupational therapy classroom or one-to-one teaching.
