confused re reading bands help!

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dd9 reads very, very well, always has done.
At home is reading thick, smallprint and hard going books.
At school they hardly ever listen to her read! After several requests they finally bumped her up to Oxford white band, she has now this weekend come home with a green band book......what age/stage is this for?
Thanks.

Some schools do their own thing so it can be hard to judge.

However National Curriculum "white band" correlates roughly to a NC level 2A. Lime level (which I think might be what your green band is) correlates rougly to a NC level 3c. What are the books like? How many pages/words per page/complexity of story line. Do you know what NC level she is at for reading?

However if your DD is 9 and reading long books at home, if this is the system your school is using it sounds like they may be too easy for her (does she understand what she reads? Read with fluency and expression?).

I'd suggest speaking to the school. Though tbh I think at this sort of level she can basicaly read and it sounds like she is reading other things at home anyway - so I wouldn't get too hung up on the school reading books.

My DS is a similar age (Y4?) and he is now on what his school calls grey readers - basically these are just age appropriate longer stories as he's considered to be "beyond" the reading scheme. For example, at the moment he's reading Tom's Midnight Garden as his school book.

Could it be Lime which is the level above white?

This website is helpful about different bands and ages.

www.readingchest.co.uk/book-bands

both of mine have useless books come home from school. They are 10 and 7 and both read chapter books at home (eg Charlie and the Chocolate factory level) and school books are either too easy or boring. The choice of good chapter books seems to be limited, and the level school gives seems a bit vague.

To be honest I now supply all their reading material, mostly from the library. We record it in ther reading record and they take the books in to school and no-one has commented, as long as they are reading every day.

I did notice last term that dd (age 7) was not reading much at home any more as I had slacked of making her read, so we have put 15 minutes of reading bakc into the day. ds (age 10) however reads so avidly that I have to remove book, torch, bedside light and clock (with light) at bedtime to make him stop reading and go to sleep.

I do however make them both read at loud at times, as this helps us to talk about new vocab and meaning.

Lime is roughly 3c as someone said. www.readingchest.co.uk/book-bands

ha, just seen Ghouls post, sorry must have missed that one

no def not the lime. Realise now its the treetops banding stage 2 for 8/9 yr olds.
Still way too easy though, took me a while to find this info online!
Will have a word with teacher this week as she does need more of a challenge, she is getting bored and not interested in the school reading books now.
Cant remember her level but she has always been couple years ahead for age......shame cant say same for maths!