NC levels and book bands

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Wht Nc level is book band 9 (gold)?

Think its 2b cheeky.

Thanks

A child reading at that level of book might not necessarily be at that NC level though I believe.

Gold level are at NC level 2 provided the child reads fluently uses intonation and demonstrates good comprehension

What does 2b mean?

level 2 can be divided into sublevels a, b and c. A secure level 2 is classified as 2b

Is there 1, 2, 3? 1a the highest? At what age/year would you expect them to be 2b (only intrested as dd is in y1 and reading gold!)

At the end of Year 2 - 6 or 7 years old
1c is the lowest level Level 8 the highest (KS3 aged 14)

When you say good comprehension, what exactly does that tend to mean around this reading level?

Specifically what if there are a couple of words they might come across in a book which they might not have encountered in every day life before. This happens with ds sometimes so even though he generally understands what he reads well, occasionally there'll be a word beyond his experience of life which we need to explain e.g. toxic.

If this happens in a book does that mean it's the wrong level even if they generally understand it well, can answer questions about the vast majority of it?

Thanks Pixie. Useful info as I have had a bit of debate about this with Dc's (not very experienced) teacher as she seemed to think if there were words he didn't already know the meaning of then the book was too hard (even though he read with excellent expression, comprehension and had none or hardly any words he couldn't read).
It just didn't make sense to me as surely there will always be new ideas and a few words they don't know the meaning of at this stage.

Absolutely Pixie. namechangesgalore, children should generally read with about, I think, 95% accuracy to be considered as secure with a book - if they didn't encounter new words and ideas as their ability increases then how the heck could they progress - there are thousands of words in the dictionary, they are not going to have encountered them all by the end of KS1!. As an aside, DDs teacher is stretching her with vocabulary that she is not familiar with - any words she is unsure of she is encouraged to look them up in a dictionary.

Good idea re the dictionary.
Will do that.

Or knowing him he can look online (he's a dab hand at wikipedia searching which is quite alarming given he's only 5 .

Thanks for your thoughts on it as it did sound a bit, well, wrong. Maybe I misunderstood what the teacher meant though.

namechangesgalore Fri 28-Jan-11 11:19:32

When you say good comprehension, what exactly does that tend to mean around this reading level?

I mean being able to discuss the story, state what happened and suggest why and express opinions. Use inference to explain what/why.

Please can I have some practical examples of using inference? Just checking I'm on the right lines.

"What leads you to believe that...";

"what words indicate that...." things like that; it's picking implied ideas out of a text that aren't obvious.

OK I think I understand. So maybe "why do you think X looks sad in the picture" when it doesn't explicitly say x was sad because his dog was lost' or whatever?

Spot on.

My daughter (Yr 2) is on Black? Any idea what that means? What level are they expected to be on by the end of year 2?

Using the Cliff Moon book banding black is equivalent to gold roughly end of Y2 expectations depending on comprehension