Oxford read tree brown band

[powderfreak]

Dd is currently reading brown band of ort in year 2.. Its dull!!
Should i be worried that she is behind in her reading? What level of ort should kids be reading year 2

none?

brown is level 8, right? Then I would have thought she is exactly where she should be. My DD is year 2 and also level 8.

chart is here

:) lol
Cdnt agree more
We'd love to have known what the authors were on when they penned such awful

Seriously thou - is she on a par with what year 2 shd be doing?
Ta

Thx for chart migrating coconuts

What a strange chart it misses out the middle chunk of book bands
(gold, white & lime)

Doesn't brown replace g/w/l?

I just downloaded it from the ORT website..

no brown follows lime

IMO this is a better chart

Thanks for help. Cant see brown on the chart or am I just being dim/ colour blind :0

brown in book banding comes after lime and on the reading chest is the multi coloured square. It isn't the same as ORT brown level which is purple on the book banding system ... just to confuse everyone.

Oh, it isn't for some reason Your school must be following a newer version of it! I'd use the first chart if i were you.

I thought brown band was a KS2 band ie ORT stages 9-11 ish. I'm sure DS had some books last year that were KS2 brown and also KS1 white or something like that.

Yes brown is KS2 in the book banding system but brown ORT books aren't brown book band

Can anyone link the colour bands to NC reading levels, isn't purple about a level 2b?

I am just not convinced that the ORT chart is correct, my dd who is also in y2 has just finished ORT stage 10 and is now reading Alpha kids stage 22 and from what I understand she is reading at gold/white level approx.

I would say your dd is reading at the expected level for her age.

fds.oup.com/www.oup.co.uk/pdf/oxed/primary/BookBands.pdf

thank you for that link mrz. That's very interesting.

My dd1 (yr2) has just finished brown book band which followed lime. I think some of them said NC 3 on the back which I assumed was level 3 on the national curriculum. May be wrong though?