Y1 Reading - Rigby Rocket levels

[CHOCOLATEPEANUT]

Anyone else using this scheme?

[mrz]

We have Rigby Rockets as one of our school reading schemes

[JustGettingByMum]

Yes my dd used these alongside Oxford Reading Tree. She really enjoyed the books as the stories were really good. Plus I like the bit at the end where you can check your child's understanding of the story, and learn a bit of grammar too [(hsmile)]

[JustGettingByMum]

Yuck, the halloween smile went wrong!

[stressystressed]

We like these books too. The first books are great. Much better than ORT to start off with. Our school just mixes the RR books- a new book every day. I like the questions at the end too.

[CHOCOLATEPEANUT]

Whats the average level for a y1 child?

[ICANDOTHAT]

We use it combined with Oxford Reading Tree. The ORT scheme have a chart that shows which level is appropriate for a reading age. Rigby Rocket doesn't seem to show this. Not sure if the colours with both schemes are related (I haven't noticed)
fds.oup.com/www0.oup.com/ort/2/tree.html

[SunshineYellow]

Does this help?

rigby structure chart

Yr 1 averages would be First term - Yellow, then Blue, by end of year - Green. I think children vary enorously at this age wth reading though.

[CHOCOLATEPEANUT]

Shes been on yellow for a while but most of class on red with some on pink. Seemed to be a huge variety which had me a bit confused.But I guess if shes mid way through yellow and its only half term shes doing ok

[sonnyandevasmum]

My son is happily reading Blue and he has just finished Reception, he will turn five soon and I think he will have out grown the blue set by then!

[lovecheese]

Does anyone know how rigby star books compare to rigby rockets? do they follow the NC colours - pink, red, yellow, blue, green...etc? Just curious.

[mrz]

lovecheese rockets and stars are levelled to the same method/standard and follow pink red etc

[lovecheese]

thanks mrz