Should I just give up with reading schemes?

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Im struggling to find sets over level 10. He has a couple, B,C&K and alien adventure, and he's on around 13. All the rest seem not come in sets so super expensive, trust me I've been looking. Should I just give up on them now and just let him read his jr novels or is there anything important about the later levels?

NoSquirrels I think alot of this has just gone over your head

Oh dear.
It's got to the point in a thread where having still not been told what they want to hear an OP starts hurling insults.
Time to abandon ship

@Mumoftwoyoungkids we have the complete Mr Men (and the other thousand) I did once ask him when reading inside out why sadness was sad and he said because that's her job. I mean technically he was right but really not what I meant.
Has your kid had any of these problems at school people have been suggesting?

NoSquirrels I think alot of this has just gone over your head

Right-o. Probably I missed a level on my reading scheme.

You said so many things that didn't make sense in context

NoSquirrels
You made perfect sense discussing preferences in your post. Don't worry. It's just the OP doesn't really like anyone giving a few that isn't giving them a gold star and validating how awesome they are for doing reading schemes at home.
Stuff wider viewpoints or people who know anything about early years or teaching reading.

Ah, don't worry, Maisy - I am in no way worried. Amused at the irony. But I strongly suspect, from the tone of the OP's posts, that they're just messing with us anyway. Meh. Whatever!

Has your kid had any of these problems at school people have been suggesting?

So far it has been ok. He’s only been at school a term though. We are also very lucky in that the average achievement of the school is significantly above average plus he is in a year group of 90. As a result there are 3 others across the three classes that are reading at a similar level and so they are in a separate reading group. It would be harder in a smaller school and he was the only one.

Dd (who is in Year 3 and what the school call “a high achiever”) is having more problems. She is now generally working on her own in maths which isn’t ideal and she spends over half the average lesson tidying. Luckily it doesn’t seem to be affecting her socially and she has lots of friends - for her she started school ahead of average but not ridiculously so but has moved away from the curve as time has gone on.

One thing that your posts has reminded me of though is that when she was 2/3 books and letters etc were very much her “comfort zone” but with encouragement she has discovered other passions. For example she used to refuse to go on a bouncy castle because she was scared of it - she is now a competitive trampolinist. On the beach she now really enjoys building ridiculously impressive sandcastles (I have memories of holding her horizontally whilst she dug in the sand as she refused to touch the sand at all.)

We are also lucky that for both kids I have a friend who had a very boisterous boy of a similar age who used to encourage very different sorts of play. They did them a lot of good.

Op dd was an early reader, we never used any reading schemes simply books that had been her older siblings and what she chose for herself from the library and bookshops.
Fortunately she went to a school that didn't use a prescribed reading scheme either but managed to teach all the children to read without slavishly following the adventures of Biff and Chip et al.
You should ditch the reading schemes they are generally formulaic and boring and expose your child to the joys of the many hundreds of books both fiction and non fiction available.

Given that OP thinks using a wooden spoon and soap in the mouth to discipline a child i#not "that bad", one would assume that her kid has more things to worry about than what book he'll read next.

Rebel, I just read that thread.

OP, next time you decided to post the thread, please just make sure you state that you don't want any opinion other than answer for your original post. Then you won't be attracting posters who cares about children's education and want to help, ending up humiliated and mocked in the end by you. How you parent your child is up to you.
But as a mum of a child who got so much from all the helpful posters on MN, including teachers and fellow parents, I feel very sad about this.

After all, MN is the place for people who wants/needs/ would like to give advice from/for others. Not the place to mock and ridicule others for difference of opinion. Especially on Education board.

Which thread?
I've missed something