Product Review

What is Rime Magic? It’s a new word recognition resource that’s changing the lives of all readers—beginning readers, English learners, and older striving readers who need more support. The rime is the key part of a word that makes it easy to see the structure (for example, the /ip/ in slippery or the /at/ in splattered). Teachers carry out instruction using rime and word cards and engaging lessons found inside the Rime Magic kit. Students add onsets and endings to the rimes to identify, analyze, and combine into words—like magic! These onset/rime lessons help students “crack the code” of the written word and, when used repeatedly in five-minute lessons, bolster reading and spelling proficiency. With practice, students pick up the pace and the rime jumps out at them as they read. Confidence soars and word recognition becomes more and more automatic, leading to enhanced comprehension and fluency.

This kit includes:
o    Teacher’s Guide
o    Rime and Word Cards
o    Short Vowel and Endings Cards
o    Power Pak intervention set
o    Poem Cards
o    Trade books for younger readers
o    High-interest articles for older readers
o    How-to videos that show each Rime Magic step in action
o    Downloadable student pages and teaching tools