Just wanting some advice on how to approach this to stop me going in all guns blazing!
My DD started reception in September. She could already read then. The class started getting reading books sent home about 1 month in. Some of these had no words in and I asked about this and was told that it was to stimulate their imagination.
Thankfully, a few weeks later, I was told she could choose books with a green sticker. She read these easily and quickly finished all of them in the basket. I went to the teacher and told them she had finished all the books. I thought they would say they would reassess her reading and give her some harder books to read. Instead, they just said not to worry as they had plenty more of the green books. She completed these ones again but they just sorted her out some more. Then on Thursday she came home with 2 blue stickered books. I thought, great she's been reassessed and put up to the next band. I wondered why she had been given 2.
However, since these books seemed quite easy for her. I decided do some research to see how the levels equated in the different reading schemes. There is a mix of All Aboard, ORT and Sunshine spirals and the TA mentioned that the individual schemes had been mixed up into the colour bands, hence why some in the same colour band seem easier than others and perhaps why she had been given 2 as one was much easier than the other.
It seems that the colour bands are a national standard and that she has actually been put down a band. Am I correct in coming to this conclusion from my brief research? Why would this be when she is managing to read and comprehend them easily? I don't want to come across as a pushy parent but I don't want her to get bored at such an early stage in her education. How should I approach it?
Sorry for the essay!