Which 'Read at home' level is your Reception child on at this point?

[WiganKebab]

Mine is on 1+, but I wondered if there was a benchmark of roughly where she should be around now?

[givemeaclue]

Wow at level 11 in reception

[N0tinmylife]

My DS brings home a mixture of 1+ and 2 books, he seems to find them fairly easy, and enjoys reading them, which I think is the most important thing at this stage!

[projectsrus]

None, our DS2 reception class hasn't started sending books home yet.

[learnandsay]

Well, that's certainly one way of avoiding being accused of sending home the wrong books.

[simpson]

Gabsid -My DC school start jolly phonics in nursery.

DD is now on gold/white level (she gets a mixture of both). She taught herself to read before nursery (a cat sat on a mat type level) and has progressed since then.

She is very bog standard with numeracy as it doesn't float her boat really.

[mrz]

gabsid I've taught children who were complete non readers when they started school (don't know any sounds at all) and have moved to gold/white by this stage in the reception year. Definitely not pushy parents either or homes full of books.

[WiganKebab]

I guess 'White' and 'lime' are part of a different set of books?

[simpson]

White is stage 10 and lime is stage 11 ORT.

DD has been put onto lime today.

[mrz]

No white and lime are just later stages Wigan

[maizieD]

I don't see how you can use the ORT Read at Home books for a phonics taught child. They don't agree with any order of introduction of 'sounds' and the early ones are full of graphemes which the child can't possibly have encountered. If they do contain graphemes the children have been taught they are probably only in one or two words in the entire story, so don't offer any useful practice in attaining automaticity in decoding them. They are written specifically for memorising words as 'wholes'.

This is not meant to be judgemental of the OP; it's just an observation...

[WiganKebab]

Glad you said that Maize, I was finding in confusing. The are very fee words that can be blended. Lots are tricky words. DD can blend til the cows come home and seems completely bored with the 1+ books, so perhaps knows all those words too.

So lime in reception is pretty good ay?

[mrz]

I hadn't realised you meant ORT books

[givemeaclue]

Lime 1(1) in reception is way above norm. They Are aiming for yellow (3) by end of year

[mrz]

Only if they are limiting a child's progress givemeaclue ..

[givemeaclue]

Lime (11) that should have said

[givemeaclue]

How is it limiting to say that they want every child to be a minimum of level 3 by end of year? Many are already past that, they don't seem limited by it

[mrz]

If your aim is yellow it's a pretty low target

[plainjayne123]

''gabsid I've taught children who were complete non readers when they started school (don't know any sounds at all) and have moved to gold/white by this stage in the reception year''
Is this for real??? I don't know any children who read when starting reception, I am extremely academic, as are a lot of my friends, I dong know what planet these reading children are from, and it shouldn't be described as normal. My dd is top of her class in reading and writing but she didn't read until reception and she or I never knew what level she was on at school. ORT I thought was something that had been scrapped years ago. Isn't phonics the thing now.

[Flo42]

I think there's a reason why the teachers don't highlight which level children are at as, after reading all these posts it could quite easily make some Mums feel panicked that their little ones are not doing enough.

The best advice I can give is that as long as your child DS/D is happy and progressing at THEIR rate then it really doesn't matter.

Ultimately they'll all be fluent readers by the end of Y2 or thereabouts.

I worried about my DS too in YR but he's plodded along and is doing v well Y1-at his level.

As long as they're happy and they like going into school then I wouldn't worry beyond that. Would have added a smiley but I'm a technophobe and new to the site. Xxxx

[TheNoodlesIncident]

plainjayne my ds started reading when he was two, although he preferred to play around and only looked at books occasionally. He had a reading diary in F1 (nursery) and now is reading Ginn level 5 in reception (I don't know how that compares to ORT/coloured bands).

He was four in August, so one of the youngest in his class.

It isn't that unusual.

"I dong know what planet these reading children are from, and it shouldn't be described as normal." How tactful. You sound a peach. I'm sure some of the previous posters' dc are actually normal. My ds has autism, so you would possibly class him as "not normal".

[PoppyWearer]

Has anyone yet made the point that in Norway the children don't start school/reading until 6/7yo .

Peace and love

DC1 is 1+.

[learnandsay]

Yah, we get the Norway/Scandinavian thing all the time. But if their languages are more regular than ours is the point is meh.

[learnandsay]

Is this for real??? I don't know any children who read when starting reception

The problem isn't that children can't read in nursery. The problem occurs when a teacher is so surprised by a reading Reception child that she treats it like a foreign object rather than a child and a person.

[simpson]

DD could read at a basic level before she started nursery, self taught.

She is all consumingly obsessed with reading and so because she reads so much (to me or to herself) she is bound to extend herself iyswim.

DS at this stage in reception had not even had a reading book and struggled with reading when he got one but still finished the reception year on stage 5.