Reading

[Orangeboat]

Can anyone tell me what level/colour reading book a child entering year1 would be expected to be reading.

Depends what reading scheme is followed.

If you are following the generalised book band scheme you would expect a child to be on yellow/blue ending reception www.readingchest.co.uk/book-bands (reading recovery I think uses different banding).

My children are quite happy reading Reading Scheme books, but library/home books too. The school actively encourage children to read books not from school (they have lots of books from different schemes in school so already have variety there). Surely the whole point of learning to read in school is so that children can apply those skills outside of school in everyday situations whether reading a book, or checking the ingredients on a packet etc it isn't so a child is limited to just reading school books.

I read with yr1 kids (and have a yr1 DD) and there are a few (not many) children on red level.

The majority are on blue and higher (prob stage 4-6).

Anyone on stage 7 and above is doing well, any child on stage 10 + is on the G&T list (apparently).

DS entered year one just having started level 5. He struggled with reading in Reception, so we read at home with him a lot over the summer, and did a lot of stage 4, enough for him to go up to stage 5 when he went back to school. I have no idea what colour that is as I don't know what order the colours go in (how does anyone remember?). He has now started stage 7.

He is in the bottom half of his class for reading ability at the moment.

But he loves being read to, loves picture books, and we praise his reading efforts very much.