Read Write Inc books year 1?

[mumbar]

Hi

Just a quickie to see if any parents / teachers of year 1 could tell me what read write inc reading book level children are at/ average level for this age?

DS school has this scheme and I'm unfamiliar with it and just interested to guage where he's at.
(not a pushy parent I promise - just interest)

Thanks for your time.

[julybutterfly]

I think average for year 1 is stage 4/5 but could be wrong

[mumbar]

what colour book for read write inc july? do you know.

Thanks

[julybutterfly]

Do you mean which colour band? Blue/Green...again I'm only going on what I've heard so could be wrong!

[mumbar]

read write inc does red ditties, green, purple, pink, orange, yellow, grey. Just not sure what they would expect a child going into yr 2 to be reading. Just really thinking about books for summer hols - weather perhaps scheme books for free books would be best as he likes to read.

[julybutterfly]

Noooo don't get scheme books for holiday reading! We leave scheme books to school.

Are you members at your local library? Always a good place to start IMO!

[Ruby40]

Try the 'Flat Stanley' series, nice big print, easy reading and introduces chapters. Allan Ahlberg has also done some good books for beginner readers, such as 'Mrs Wobble the Waitress', Mr Jollys Joke Shop' and the 'Gaskitt Family' series.

[Ruby40]

Almost forgot 'Master Money the Millionnaire'...my DDs favourite!

[vesela]

re. Read Write Inc. - are the ditties better to start with than the storybooks? We've just got a set of Stage 1 green storybooks (On the Bus, Six Fish etc), but they seem a little hard as first books - the sentences are rather long.

We live abroad, so I'm teaching DD to read (English, anyway). At the moment she can blend CVC words that I write down on a pad of paper (I write a CVC word, she sounds it out and says it and then we draw a picture of it) and I was looking for the next step.

We also have the first lot of Songbirds, of which the first ones seem a tad easier. But the words are small (and Read Write are only marginally bigger). Maybe I should just carry on with the pen and paper for now, given that she enjoys it - that way I can make up very short sentences and keep the writing nice and big.

She's used to large letters - fridge magnets, writing on the computer with the font size jacked up to 72 etc!

I know there are reading resources on the internet, but I was hoping to use "real books" more (and we need a new printer).

[maverick]

Yes, the Ditties are RWI's very first readers but they aren't really real books -flimsy paper, and include writing exercises, unlike the RWI storybooks.

I use these:
Dandelion Readers. www.phonicbooks.co.uk/
'Launchers' for beginner readers at Foundation stage

[vesela]

cheers - that's what I thought, and that's why I went for the coloured storybooks (she was excited at the prospect of getting some "books I can read by myself").

I like the Dandelion Launchers, though! I'd seen them in the past, I think, but had forgotten about them. Thank you.

[mumbar]

Don't want scheme books for the summer I can get childrens books from school and ds in with me last day as both have inset so he can choose.

Only interested about what coloured level is average/ expected for end yr1 / starting year 2 as I have no idea how he is doing in his reading.

I'm interested as DS is struggling with writing and behind the average expected but his reading seems fine so just really want to know if I'm write.

VESELA - ds started reading green RWinc books in January of year r and was on purple when he started year 1. The books are all the same short sharp sentences and new words everybook concentrating on blending words using phonics. They also concentrate a lot on comphrehension.

I'll look up dandelion launchers they sound good.