Ginn reading books. Anyone else think they are.....crap?

[tiredemma]

Ds2 went into yr 2 in sept, his new teacher changed his old book to a Ginn one. Not very rivetting, he is bored ( I am bored listening to it)

Its parents evening tonight- should I say something, or leave it?

[marialuisa]

I thought they were pretty good actually, especially the non-fiction ones. If it's dreadful I'd mention it to the teacher though.

[SoMuchToBits]

I hated them - so boring! Would rather have Oxford Reading Tree any day. A friend of mine who is a primary school teacher also says she doesn't like them much, compared to the alternatives.

[EmsMum]

DD much preferred ORT in infants. Nowadays (yr 4) some of the Ginn are quite good...I( think her current ones are ginn level 9 ), themes like Dinosaurs which have factual sections, some fiction and poems.
( I do rather miss Floppy though )

Mention it to the teacher - reading boring books is demotivating. If there is some good reason why the teacher wants him to do the Ginn, then it'll help you to know the rationale.

[janinlondon]

I think a mixture of reading schemes is good. Our school explained that when students transfer to us from a school where only one scheme is used the children are sometimes flummoxed by different sentence construction/names/grammar. We use Ginn in conjunction with ORT and another scheme, and it seems to work well. But if DS is really bored maybe the level they have chosen is wrong?