Reading In Color

Reading is easy and fun with the unique color-coded reading and writing system for children.

Why RIC "Reading in color"?

Reading in Color® has cracked the alphabetic code with the unique colour/color-coded reading and writing system and establishes a complete understanding of the English sound and spelling system in a simple and uncomplicated way, which resolves the complexity of learning to read, write and understand English using the conventional processes to teach reading skills. Because Reading in Colour has simplified the conventional process of learning to read and spell, it takes an average 5-year-old native speaking child to read in one year instead of on average 3 years. In some cases, learning to read with RiC can begin as early as 3 years old. (see video)

For students of English as an additional language, the embedded colour coded system in the text immediately provides correct and accurate pronunciation and, consequently, replaces the need for using the IPA phonetic symbols to transcribe the pronunciation of words in English.

How RiC Works:

Reading in Colour is composed of 3 main components: 1) the colour-coded system

2) the teaching resources

3) the RiC teaching methodology

1) RiC is embedded with the Color-Coded System. The Color-Coded System associates vowel sounds with colours/colors specifically designated to each vowel sound. Students simply memorize 17 colors instead of memorizing over a 100 different spelling patterns and the various vowel sounds they make using conventional methods that teach reading skills. For example, the short /e/ vowel sound as in red is colored red. The long /i:/ vowel sound as in green is colored green. The long /ai/ vowel sound as in grey is colored grey.

For consonant sounds, RiC uses bold lettering to indicate digraph sounds. Silent letters have a wire frame outline which I have called ghost letters, meaning sounds that are not pronounced but are needed to make up the spelling of the word.

The aim of the RiC is to provide accurate and correct pronunciation immediately. The colour coded sounds embedded in the reading text help with blending letters into meaningful words, which is an important foundation for reading. It also includes auditory and visual discrimination, writing and spelling instruction to develop letter recognition skills, blending exercises for word building (sound-it-out), sight word recognition, and reading words in stories.

As the colour coded words guide the reader to pronounce words correctly with automaticity, the colour coded vowel sounds coherently cues in the spelling of words through visual discrimination. As the student progresses with reading the colour coded text, the visual discrimination process expands to cross-referencing the same colour coded sounds in different words on the printed page

With the RiC’s colour-coded system students have a quick visual clue to accurate reading without the need for understanding spelling patterns and rules of conventional English pronunciation. Transition from RiC occurs during the spelling and writing process.

RiC ® is group inclusive:

Ages 4+

Remedial English

English as an Additional Language First time readers

Those wanting a phonics foundation PD workshop groups

RiC benefits:

•Visual disorders

•Hearing disorders

•Speech disorders: stuttering •Dyslexia

•Dysgraphia

•Autism

•Dementia