What should a pink level book look like?

[littlebylittle]

What sort of words? How many pages? At your school, what level Ort corresponds? I laugh at myself for suddenly taking such an interest- although I still maintain my benchmark for dd's reading being appropriate is when a few words per book challenge her so I'm really not doing this through anything other than curiosity (promise!!!)

Pink level books only have 8 pages with a short sentence on each page. We use phonic reading schemes so the words are mainly 2 or 3 letters but the words used vary greatly from scheme to scheme.

I thought that schools used their own colour schemes.

Obiously ORT is standard but how the schools classify them into colours shapes or whatever system they use isn't standard between schools....or at least it certainly isn't standard between teh school I am a reading support worker and my DDs school

No publishers use a national system of book banding by colour which covers not only reading scheme books but many other story books.

The book band system is designed to help schools grade their reading books. Most reading scheme books for children aged 4 to 8 years have been given a book band colour by the publisher based on the level of reading difficulty. Ideally this means that a ?pink? book in the Collins Big Cat scheme is at the same reading level as a ?pink? book in the Project X scheme or a "pink level" Floppy Phonics or a "pink" level Rigby Star

Very useful. So books that dd is reading at the moment have fifteen or so words per page, and are sixteen pages per book. Today's one hasxwords like blocks, see saw, puzzle and several reception high frequency words and is not over repetitive. Would that suggest that the pink sticker means something else? I really am just interested I promise, but when you spend a lot of time looking at these books you obsess about small details!!

It sounds as if your school uses a Look& Say scheme which introduces longer words for children to guess from the illustrations so I would say it is pink level band.