Storyworlds stage 4 (orange)

[icancancan]

My ds (5) has been put on this level. He is finding it okay but he would really struggle with the equivalent level ORT - can anyone explain how this equates with the more common reading scheme colors please.

[Elibean]

All I can tell you is that at dds' school, we have a variety of reading schemes - and other books - on each colour band. Part of the reason for this is that kids can then be given eg an 'easier' Orange level (Storyworld, for example) and progress to a 'harder' Orange level, before moving on to Turquoise.

Does that make sense?

[icancancan]

Hi Elibean, thanks for the reply - Since the beginning of reception he has only ever read Storyworld books (did ORT 1+ in nursery) - do you think at some point then that he will be put onto a lower stage ORT one?

[icancancan]

forgot to add - I actually prefer the Storyworld books as seem to be completely phonics based but ORT at this level has twice as many pages and several more sentences.

[beautifulgirls]

DD was moved from ORT to storyworld books last year in reception and has just moved back to ORT this term. I think she moved up 2-3 levels (?)levels in that from where she started but has gone back to ORT 3rd level (blue maybe, I'm not sure without looking). She definately did make better progress on the storyworlds books when they changed her but is doing ok now with the ORT books she has been moved to. No real idea how the levels equate so it doesn't really answer your question but at least for us the way it has been done moving back seems to work for DD.

[icancancan]

thanks beautifulgirls - my only guess is that maybe they are ensuring a solid phonics base before going back to ORT (which seems to have some challenging decodable words at stage 3/4).
mrz might be able to shed some light .....