reading levels year 1

[teacherspet33]

Hello, what is the average reading level/book band colour in year 1? I'm trying to work out how my child is compared to her peers.
Many thanks

I used to prefer the Rigby Rocket books to ORT. They used to have a wide range of topics, and non fiction as well as fiction books. They were so much more interesting to read, and also had guided questions for parents to discuss ideas with their kids to see if they understood what they read.

ok, so DS1 is in primary 1 (scotland), he's about to turn 6 and is on ORT red, stage 4.

is he decidedly average then?

Rigby rocks :)

i've just checked the chart and it would appear he is a bit stupid.

so i'm with roadart.

that's where my dd is too Nevergoogle.
And she was such an early talker!

Could you do a link please - I cut and pasted and couldn't get it to work.

Ds was an early talker too. I already know he is 'average' as his yr 1 teacher told me last year.

hope this works

ORTreadingAges.pdf"

ORTreadingAges.pdf

sorry, that link doesnt work

try this

I just had a look at the link thanks Little Cheesy- as i wsan't sure where dd should be at this stage. At the end of F1 her EYFS score for reading was 5 which is below average despite the fact that she was happily reading ORT level4. We did very little during the holiday I tried her with Stage 5 last week, she read at school yesterday and has been put onto Stage 6 - I've stopped worrying. She is 5years 2 months.

Stage 6 is fab, she's clearly not struggling!

My daughter is on white book and she's only 5, looking on reading chest website that's reading band 7-8 years! Sooo proud of her ????

OP. My son is in year 1. I questioned the reading at parents evening recently. The response I was given was they want the children to learn comprehension and understand the stories, be able to summarise it, use punctuation well etc. Not just reading the words. Also our school send home easier books than they read with the teacher to give children confidence to read alone if their parents don't listen to them.

The bulk of my Y1 class are equivalent if orange book band (we don't use book banding) but there are children on what would be red band and others on lime ...

With new expectations for year groups the Reading Chest and ORT guidance isn't up to date.

The Op's child is now 12 and in high school. What's with all the zombie posting today?!

Oops I didn't notice!

When my son entered year 1 he was on level 6 I remember this because we'd moved schools and they put him down a level because they thought his comprehension needed work. His new school also liked the children to read EVERY single book within a level which I thought defeated the object, it just made my son less inclined to want to read the school books because they were too easy and the storylines boring. I decided that we'd read a few pages of the school books but focus more on our own books.

Goldhawk why not post a new thread? I guarantee you that OP's son is now a better reader than your DD (as he's 12!)