Book band always equals reading level

[NorhamGardens]

Does it work this way in other schools?

In ours all children on orange in Y2 are a 2C and all currently on black a 2B, next level up a 2A no exceptions.

AFAIK this is how it is meant to work. That is pretty much what a 2c means - that a child can read an orange band book confidently.

Unfortunately, for reasons I can never work out, it doesn't work like that in my case. They tell me DD is a 1a but then they send home yellow band (1c) books with her. Which she struggles through....

There are actually 8 APP thingies to get a Reading level. Including things like knowing a book is fiction or nonfiction. Of the 8 APPs only 1 relates to decoding words. But it's pretty silly to do what they're doing to me and give my DD a higher level than she can read.

NG, hello again, which scheme does your school use? NC banding is turquoise after orange.

BTW how do you know so much about the other children in your DC's class and their reading levels? It's a closed shop pretty much at my DC's, apart from the odd one I know because mine have told me!

It's not like that at our school. Levels are judged individually by the teacher. In Yr2 I had one ds who was off the reading scheme and one who was still on it. The free reader was assessed as being at a lower level than the the boy still on the scheme.

It's not like that in dd's school. The books for guided reading are chosen so that a particular objective can be taught from them. They may be easier than the children's reading level, as this means that the children can concentrate on one particular skill e.g. prediction, rather than focussing on de-coding.