Are higher level reading scheme books appropriate for 5/6 year old son?

[Lucky13]

I know there are quite a few of you with younger children who are on higher level reading scheme books, so thought I would ask this. Does your child's teacher think the books are appropriate for them in terms of content?
DD isn't allowed the higher ones as her teacher feels that she wouldn't enjoy them as they are written for older children. I understand her point, but wanted to see what others thought?
How many 5/6 year olds have read their way through the reading scheme books, if so have you found many books which you consider inappropriate?

I remember when my daughter went into Y3 and the teacher saying that a lot of them would be able to read the words in Far From the Madding Crowd and with explanations understand what was happening, but that didn't mean it was a suitable book for Y3s to be reading.
When my children were in Y1, they read things like Mr Majeika, The Worst Witch, various picture books etc.

Lucky want to swap teachers?

I think take the best from this teachers point of view.

Our school has shit boring ORT books all 20+ years old. That's it.
Dd was 6 this week, Y1. She is on white/lime level. All she gets sent home are ORT Jackdaws and she HATES them. Greek mythology, lighthouses and drowning, space rockets. They all just seem v boyish, out of date from a technology point of view and too factual. She can read them, she understands them to an extent and she is getting zero pleasure from them. I've started writing in record the obligatory lie - read well as discussions with our teacher simply ends with The TA does books.

It's not a case of can't. It's a case of make more use of your reading time together.

Just to add, the boys on this level in DD class LOVE these books.
There is a huge gaping hole in ORT for young girls books at this level.

We are doing library only now.

When DS hit this in Reception (he's bright but v. sensitive), his teacher or TA would quickly whip through the book before giving it to him. Tbh, it was more the pictures than the subject matter in the text that was likely to be a problem - an upsetting picture (there is one in a book called something like Marvellous Mummies which is fairly nightmare-inducing) is instantly accessible and impactful, whereas even if a child can decode the words of a book where the text has similar material, the impact is likely to be lower and less immediate as if it is outside their experience / understanding it simply won't be processesd IYSWIM.

After Easter of Reception, I just organised him chapter books from home.

interestingly my daughter has actually enjoyed most of the jackdaws books (reception age 5). She was fascinated by Grace Darling although at first sight she announced the book was too boyish. we read it back to front so she did the heroine first. However she does love facts. The one she chose to bring home this weekend was about castles (we haven't read it yet and I can see from flicking through that she won't like one of the 3 stories in it so I won't let her do that in case it scares her). She also loves her fairy and princess stories and animals etc.

I agree that there is often a bias towards boy books in reading schemes, both old and new ones and they do seem to have a bee in their bonnet about how boys must be encouraged etc but they have missed out girls in many ways. All the schemes seem to make the same mistake with this even though some research I read fairly recently showed that actually there is now a tailing off of girls being interested in reading and more boys whizzing through the schemes... hmm I wonder why that could be. no idea what the research was though so don't ask me to find it again.

The All Stars scheme are written for younger able readers

I wish my daughter's school had them Mrz. If I won the lottery I would give them the money to get new books but sadly I think it is unlikely

Would they be available in the library mrz? We have Pan London access so literally thousands of branches will send books to my local one. Is there one particular author and publisher etc? Thank you

They are published by OUP
www.oup.com/oxed/primary/oxfordreadingtree/resources/allstars/

some of them can be read for free on their website Shattereddreams, seem nice stories from the ones we have read on there.
www.oxfordowl.co.uk/Library/Index/?Series=Series&AgeGroup=1&Book=eBooks&BookType=Able%20Infants

DD is also 5 and has finished the reading scheme and atm is allowed to choose her books from the old school library, but they are holding off giving her chapter books.

She chooses anything and this weeks book is Cinderella, last week was a picture type book it just varies from week to week.

HT says the plan is to allow her access to different types of easier books (fiction, non fiction and poetry etc) until she is a bit more mature and has a bit more life experience to understand a bit more (ie she read a book on the Battle of Britain to herself but did not have a clue what war or they army was!)

She will hopefully be a bit more mature to handle other books in yr1.

I still make sure she has a wide access to books too.

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DD's school has a handful of all stars books and she read the ones they have.

She read one about an enormous chocolate bar melting all over the radiator that she loved

DS is only properly into chapter books this year. (Y1). Last year he could read the words but didn't have the stamina/ interest. It's probably only in last month or so that he is galloping through them on his own. A few months ago when he chose them himself from school I had to ask for shorter books as he didn't maintain interest in them. That's completely changed now!