Oxford Reading Tree ... do you know

[Twiglett]

what age the respective levels are averagely aimed at? ie you can expect a Year 1 child to be around levels .... ??

have searched but too many threads come up

Additional to ORT - mine read the Horrid Henry books at home, because they were fun and had short stories, so could read as little or as much as they wanted.

Thanks for this thread Twig - and glad your DS was sorted - I remember the original thread. And well done to your DS - he has done well.

My DS on the other hand is 5.6 and is on Stage 2 which according to Frances5's link (thanks for that!) is about a year behind where he "should be".

He wasn't interested in reading at all when he started in Reception (hated the books with no words) but then he suddenly got interested when he noticed other children getting word sheets to do at home. So he refused to leave without one one day!

He also seems to have to go through each and every book at each stage - at least he did at Stage 1. His teacher is excellent but is very rule-orientated.

Now I don't want to be a pushy mum. Have deliberately not tried to find out what stages his friends are at. But SHOULD I be pushing him a bit more? He is a bright kid (well I would say that wouldn't I!) so at what stage should I push more. Should I talk to the teacher or will I come across as pushy?

this is the original thread, i searched back and when i posted it updated all the dates. So twiglett probabaly doesnt even know this thread has been active again.

She'll find it! She's clever that Twig!

Budababe - having been through the ORT books five times just read anything you want with him . My eldest (DD) was treated like this at school having to read all the books in order despite speaking to teacher and headteacher several times needless to say with the rest of family just got on with it myself and it worked better for them in long run. Problem is that teachers have thirty children learning to read we only have one or two at a time.

Budababe

I can only say from my experience, DS was struggling in the early stages then it just clicked ...

I think really I'd just wait for the click and not worry when it comes too much .. DS sounds just like your DS (only he's 5 months down the line)

I am inordinately pleased with DS but I always had in the back of my mind 'by the time they're 7 or 8 they all equalise so it doesn't matter when)

its a click .. honestly it is

tell you what I think helped (though don't know for sure) .. I bought a series of funny books 'red nose readers' from The Book Club .. and kept them on top of the cupboard .. DS was allowed to 'keep' one when he'd read it through to me .. he loved that .. and they're funny

can recommend them

red nose readers

Red nose readers readers really heped my daughter too. The school was making her read every book in every level so progress was slow until I started to buty my own books and with the red nose readers it clicked and she jumped a few levels.

Thanks all.

Will try reading other things with him. It's not as if we don't HAVE lots of books!

Will get a set of the Red Nose ones.