reading schemes

[Wobblypig]

How many reading schemes does your school use. DS in reception so far has had dandelion readers; ORT ; Story worlds ; New way ( yuk ) now Ginn. Is it normal to flit around a bit?

As far as I know our school only uses ORT.

It provides a broader range of texts rather than the child becoming familiar with one "style" of writing. I've taught in schools with a fidelity to one scheme where "good" readers struggled when faced with anything different.

Yes. My children's school use a selection of schemes.

It's best to read a variety.

Our current school is well resourced and has a variety of new books. My ds has had ORT, Floppy Phonics, Collins BigCat, BigCat Phonics, Bug Club, Rigby Star,... If he reads a lot of one scheme he is encouraged to go for a different type.

Our old school had ORT and lots of 70s(?) ones like New Way, Ginn and other ancient ones.

My DC school use ORT, songbirds, floppy phonics and Ginn.

Our school seem to have several. I think its good as IMO especially with ORT that they are very samey/formulaic and children can seem to read better than they really can. I know with DS2 that he flies through all ORT books no problem, but sometimes has to think harder when he has books from other schemes at the same level.

Much better to have several.

Yes, much more like real life and real books to have several. More interesting for the parent too .

ORT, Floppy's Phonics, Ginn, Rigby Star, Story Worlds, Story Street, X Project...

We only have crappy ORT
I supplement with library books
She read 80% of room on broom tonight (yR) and boy was she pleased with herself.

She can read random ORT type words like suddenly
Magic but she can't repeat the j sound in other g words (unless there is a picture )

DD's school and my school bith use a wide range of books, some reading schemes and some non scheme books.

Excellent I am glad that this is normal and desirable.

Any books from within the last 40 years all in different states of repair, a lot held together with brown crispy Sellotape :)

My DS started on ORT until he got to L4. The school then started to mix them up a bit with Project X and non fiction books. They are technically the same level however he finds them more of a challenge. DS's teacher asks parents not to worry about reading levels and instead to encourage reading from lots of different sources.

I've got a child that's had just ORT and deemed to be one of the better readers. Give him anything else and he might struggle his way through it. Going to ensure this holiday that he gets lots of books 1) read to him 2) he gets to try other books himself.

The danger I feel with ORT on it's own is that they can memorise many words and stick them into their word bank for the next level. They don't have to use phonics as a main strategy and some of the words that then come up when practising phonics have already been covered. According to the school I'm talking crap.

My oldest read only Ort and he struggled to read anything not in Ort font.

Yes, I am pleased to be weaning Ds off magic key and onto a whole range of books. Bit like weaning onto solids. Ho ho!

Just rejoined reading chest and first books arrived today. I could see the advantage of using different schemes straight away.