Someone discuss those ORT books with me...

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Discuss:

1. Why are there so many glasses left abandoned on the ground? Who loses this many pairs of specs?
2. Who is the janitor from the school in the baseball cap? Why is he always lurking? Why does he appear in different costumes on different adventures? What does he know that we don't know?
3. What is it with that man looking over Biff and Chip's fence? Can his dog really jump that high?

There's something going on in these books. Can anyone help?

Cod the thing to note in amazement at that old thread is how much better your spelling was. Were you just tryingreally hard as a newbie?

Didn't know you could get AB to visit yr school. Like the idea of Nicholas Allen too, dekon teddy a long-time fave in this house (Oh miss show us your new ... KNICKERS said Teddy, and everyone thought it was Dominic)

Must find out more and arrange....how much would it be then?

hunderd why the hat?

Dunno, because he always wears it I suppose. Could be radical and throw his glasses couldn't I? Would be more in keeping I suppose, but I wear glasses and he might do the same to mine and then we'd be laughing through gritted teeth and hating eachother and I couldn't bear for that to happen.

well i am suggesting we invite him to shcool

whizz, i (sorry dd) has read the biog about Alex Brychta too - very interesting.

Can anyone tell me (not wanting to cause an ORT reading comptetition here) but what stage are your reception dcs on?

We moved to Canada and they don't have reading schemes here, so me and some friends have bought ORT books for all our kids to use.

My dd2 is nearly 5, she's on stage 3, does this sound about right to you?
Also do your dcs read each book only once or are they expected to read it a few times before getting a new one?

sounds right to me

my ds2 is top age range of second year at school ( he is spetember) and is on level 8
but he is an utter swot.

i rekcon they haev to read them for a couple of days till they dont stumble

hellish - sounds right to me. DD has just turned 5 and has just finished the 18 books in stage 3, and finsihed the last Sparrrows (ORT) book last night at that level.

We have to do lots of other books before ORT started and in between each level, to get further repetition and build on vocab at that level I guess.

Page 3 has the stages on and what year group they are aimed at. Very rough guide I guess.

Thanks Hulababy and Dogsby, we have bought 18-24 books at each level, but I remember my dd1 reading lots of other books for repetition (in the uk). I don't know why it's so different here, I found it impossible to find levelled readers and the school don't send any books home. But I do enjoy being the librarian and having my own reading scheme.