Book band at end of year 1 what is/was your dc on

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I know this has been done before but just wanted to know what book band your child was on at start of Y1 and at end, also does their age make a difference, ie mine was 5.1 at start of year 1 and on pink band. Just trying to gauge the average, if that exists and yes I know it does depend on the individual child but there must be some expected average so if anyone knows please tell me! thanks

She's a mid August birthday.

What order do they go in?

DD1 is nearly at the end of reception and has ones with orange on. They are boring as hell so we only read them once through on the night before they are due in and she reads other books at other times - I would personally prefer that she tries harder books and stumbles with the odd word than just whizzing through books she can do, but we do the school books once, just so we can show her that we are interested in her school work and monitor how she is doing compared to what the teacher is asking of her.

DD1 comes on in fits and starts too...she started learning some basic phonics really early (about 2yo) so I thought she would be reading novels before school :) , but she didn't really advance till just before school when she started being able to slowly blend words, and then she stayed at that level until one day she could just...read. I'm as baffled as anyone else - we only realised because she started commenting on things that we didn't think she could read (such as my facebook statuses when I was messing on my phone and she was watching tv )

Pink, red, yellow, blue, green, orange, turquoise, purple, gold, white, lime.

I work in a Y1 class. We have children currently on books ranging from red (although yellow if purely phonics based books)to white. Biggest colour group is green iirr this year.

My little girl started year 1 on pink band and finished yr 1 on pink and red band books she struggles still but tries really hard

my little boy still year 1, started on red and is on white but been on them since january so slowed down alot. he is a feb baby.

DD started Year 1 on about gold I think and is on lime now. School has some other bands above them -possibly copper and silver or something like that? A boy in her class is on the next level after lime anyway.

Just to add that yes she brings one book home per week from school but we do read together most nights, usually fun books though such as Hairy Maclairy or tiger that came to tea, that kind of book. It would seem that the literacy scheme requires us to also read one school book per night too but as someone said they are so so dull. Very useful to have all your replies to this.

Ds started yr1 on level 3 (?blue). Finished on level 6( orange?l) Think he was about average. Came on leaps and bounds in year 2. Now.free reading (year3)

DD1 (March b'day now yr 2) started yr 1 on Orange and finished on lime.
DD2 (Aug b'day currently reception) started only recognising her name, now on blue. Suspect she will start yr 1 on blue or green.

Steaming ahead in book bands doesn't mean much in my opinion. Ds is current purple but I think his phonics is awful and actually it's working against him as his main strategy is remembering words. Quite annoyed that I raised this as an issue because I knew he would start to get stuck which he has.

Average Progress is 3 points, most teachers would like to get 4 or more points progress at Year 1 and 4-8 points progress in Year 2
These are the Colour Levels, National Curriculum Levels and the NC points used to judge progress. Eg if your child has moved from pink to green that would be 6 points progress, well above average.
(1B is national average at the end of Y1 and 2B is national average at end of Y2)

LILAC P4,P5,P6 2-4
PINK A P7 5

RED P8 6
YELLOW Level 1C 7
BLUE Level 1B 9
GREEN Level 1A 11
ORANGE Level 2C 13

TURQUOISE Level 2C 13
PURPLE Level 2B 15
GOLD Level 2A 17
WHITE Level 3C 21
LIME Level 3B

Sorry to be so technical, but hope that helps a few people :)

DS ( now Y3 Oct born ) ORT 5 starting, ORT 9/10/11? can't remember finishing.

DD ( currently Y1 Aug born ) started ORT 2, currently ORT 6. (orange?) Still half a term to go!

Wyorksmum - that is really helpful to know re all the levels and where they are on the NC.

DS's school say they should finish on a 1A for reading at the end of yr1 although I think they have recently changed it from a 1B as DS was in yr 1 last yr and they needed a 1B then. I guess it must be to take into account the new phonics test....

dd was reading lime books but not achieving 3b because she has an enormous site vocabulary but not yet developed all the relevent points on the app grid to get a 3b. (nor anywhere near!) some things were there securely and other reading skills were well behind the 3b mark. it does not necessaily correspond in all cases.

None of it makes much sense to me, I'm afraid. DD2 (Y1, Dec born) gets a book a night and school manage this by never throwing a book away, ever, and devising their own level system so I never know where she is. Fortunately the one they sent home tonight is an ORT one, for once, so I can look it up. ORT14, though it's one of the tougher ones of the level she's on atm. At least we seem to have emerged from the Hell that is Biff, Chip & Kipper.

I teach Y1 and have a slightly different list to the one above. Here it is - of course we use other criteria to level too (comprehension etc.) My class range from yellow to lime+ at the moment. Green would be fine, on track, as long as they are able to sound out new words confidently and talk about the book.
Pink (1) W
Red (2) W
Yellow (3) 1C
Blue (4) 1C/1B
Green (5) 1B
Orange (6) 1A
Turquoise (7) 1A/2C
Purple (8) 2C/2B
Gold (9) 2B/2A
White (10) 2A
Lime (11) 3C

DD1 at end of Yr1: Gold
DD2 at the end of Yr1: White

I'm going by NC levels here because the school was at the time very chaotic in its reading schemes. At the moment DD1 is in Yr6 and is not on a reading scheme. DD2 is in Yr4 and is reading Pearl, is predicted a 5c in reading by the end of the year.

There was a huuuuge spread of ability at the end of Yr1, and a lot of the children who were behind the curve at that point really caught up by the end of YR2 - from what I saw a combo of good support from the school plus maturity kicking in.

In Yr1 the DDs read to me every night, these days it's mostly me reading to them ( I still do it every night) but they are voracious readers so the combo of parents/school must be doing something right.

DS is 6.2 and currently reading white band, His teacher expects he will be a " free reader " by year 2 at his rate of progress. He started Y1 on red band and has rocketed up the bands since christmas. suddenly reading "clicked" for him.

He get benchmarked for reading about once a half term unless someone asks for it to happen sooner.

Excellent thread.
My dd 6.1 started Y1 Red band and is now a Blue/ Green band. Have been concerned about her reading level in the past, but seems this is an OK level to be. We have been doing lots of extra reading at home all year through library and Reading Chest as she rarely brings reading books home (in fact was school policy not to send reading scheme books home, but they have U-turned on that now). At school she is blue band but she is reading green ORT well to me at home and has not read to a teacher/TA at school for weeks according to dd :(

Think it varies so much.

Mine's on lime but is one of oldest in year. There are a few children who are above her level - one is a free reader. And I think there are some on red.

Some just get it sooner than others. Once they get it, they tend to very quickly progress I think. I remember mine being on pink/red for months - then sailing through the yellows/blues/greens very quickly.

How can you all remember where each of your children have started and finished?!

Dd1, erm, no idea
Dd2, uhm, no idea
Dd3, is finishing Reception and is ORT stage 5 (blue/green?)

Current yr1 dd - no bands here, just 'piles' that they work through. She is currently on a pile of Spirals and the last one she brought home was called 'Bees' so no help :-)

The last pile she was on was these:
www.follifootfarm.co.uk/books-1/14-english-vowels-series.html
but she was moved on.

She's a really good reader though (I think) although in a class of extremely strong readers so she is not at the top by any means.

She sits in bed reading at night and loves books so I know she'll be fine

Her best friend (6) is currently reading this:
www.amazon.co.uk/Rose-Holly-Webb/dp/1408304473/ref=pd_sim_b_3

just to make you paranoid