Oxford Literacy Web vs Oxford Reading Tree

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I'm just hoping someone could shed some light on the difference between these 2 schemes. ds'class use the Literacy Web books to supplement their ORT books. We are finding that, although they are in stages and even the colours for each stage are the same, the Literacy Web books just don't seem as hard. He can easily read one straight off whereas in an ORT book of the equivalent stage there are usually a couple of words/blends he needs to learn. Anyone else come across this ?

Presumably the Literacy Web are there to supplement the ORT scheme? Don't know much about this one, we don't use it at our school AFAIK.

DD's school uses about 6 official schemes simulateneously to produce their own "reading scheme". The different books have different purposes, the Literacy web is much more about reinforcement of sounds and the children being confident readers whereas the ORT is more linked to the writing/spelling stuff they do in class.