Guided reading

[daisy243]

Hello, are guided reading book levels/colours the same as individual reading books? For example dd reads orange books at home and reads blue in guided reading.
Ta

I think that means she is a bit more advanced than the rest of her guided reading group and the teacher is giving her harder books to read at home. I'm sure a teacher will be able to let you know if this is right.....?

In our school, the children read the level above for guided reading.

BGuided reading books aren't necessarily on a consisten level - they are chosen for all sorts of reasons - to fit in with the group's interests, because it's a particular type of book they haven't tried before, because it's particularly funny or exciting or whatever, because the teacher likes it.......lots of reasons.

I helped with guided reading in Y3 last year - books were chosen to fit in with certain topics/areas which the class were covering. So we did poetry for a couple of weeks, then moved on to talking about plotting and what might happen next. One week was about being nice to each other, one week was non-fiction books (could we find the index, what are the references, that kind of thing).
Guided reading had no correlation to reading book levels - if the language was too much for some of the group, we either gave the meanings, or asked the children to work it out/guess/help each other.