Which reading books does your child get at school?

[Linnet]

My dd's class/school gets GINN reading books.
I wondered if anyone elses child gets these books?
And if not what books do they get?
We're in Scotland, don't know if that makes a difference or not.

[coppertop]

Oxford Reading Tree here (in Cambs).

[Dingle]

We do have a variety, but the majority are ORT.

[Roisin]

Our school use an amalgamation of LOADS of different schemes: Oxford Reading Tree, Ginn, Cambridge, National Geographic, New Way (Nelson Thornes?), Storyworld (Heinemann?) ... I'm sure there are others too.

[Slinky]

Variety - includes ORT, Ginn, New Way, National Geographic.

[binkie]

Ginn 360 [boring], now a pretty good Allan Ahlberg series called "Happy Families" - lots of jokes and the books refer into each other - characters pop up in the "wrong" story and so on - typical Ahlberg. (Yr 1 by the way.)

[monalisa]

Yes we have Ginn too - and yes it is soooo boring. I am fed up of Swimming in the Park and I no longer care about JIll's Baby Brother - or whether We Can Play. Arrrgghhh. They rank alongside Peter and Jane - although I think Pat the dog was more appealing than Lad and the crew...I am so pleased my eldest is on free reading - sadly they have revised and extended the levels at my school - so number two is wading thru stacks more and isn't learning to read for pleasure - but to get to the next level.

[monalisa]

Forgot to say - he's yr 1 and we're Lincs.

[suedonim]

Oxford Reading Tree here - also in Scotland. Be thankful you're not having to plough through Roger Redhat and Billy 'Bl%dy' Bluehat, the execrable reading books my boys started with. Poor ds1 was terrified by the troll in one of them!!

[hmb]

Ds gets Oxford reading tree and web. Dd worked her way through Ginn, ORT, cambridge reading and something called something like 'The way ahead' ?? Actualy it was new way (reading another poster). By the time she left Y2 she had read all of all of them. We thought that New way were the worst.

Interesting that we are in Lincs but had a range.

[marialuisa]

Mixture of ORT and web, new Way and something too awful for words, called "Story Chest".

[Roisin]

Some of the Ginn books are fantastic - there are some superb non-fiction books at the top end of the reading scheme. I think my favourites are the National Geographic ones.

[ponygirl]

We're on Rigby Rocket which are colour-coded, but the school obviously got a job lot of ORT from another school which they've colour-coded to fir into the RR scheme. Have had enough of Biff, Chip, Kipper and the rest to last me a lifetime, but still have two children yet to start school, so will no doubt be seeing a lot more of them!

[Wallace]

Oxford Reading Tree. Ds is in P1 and we are in Scotland too.

[Linnet]

It's interesting to see that so many of your children have had/or get the Ginn reading books. I was told by a friend in Glasgow that their school hasn't used them for years as they are rubbish and the children don't learn anything from them.

I've never had a problem with them personally but then we've not had any others to compare them to. Dd is quite happy to read them, she's now in P3 so they are more interesting and slightly less repeptative than they were in P1 and 2.