reception reading levels.

[misstiredbuthappy]

Please could someone explain to me the oxford books reading levels. My dd has gone up a level and Is now on orange. Havent a clue what it means.

A guide to the bands can be found here. She is above average.
I think you are in Wales?
If so, the Welsh literacy framework for this level book means she should be working on...

choose reading materials and explain what the text is about and why they like it
apply the following reading strategies with increasing independence:
– phonic strategies to decode words
– recognition of high-frequency words
– context clues, e.g. prior knowledge
– graphic and syntactic clues
– self-correction, including re-reading and reading ahead
read suitable texts with accuracy and fluency
read aloud with attention to full stops and question marks
read aloud with expression, showing awareness of exclamation and speech marks
identify simple text features such as titles and pictures to indicate what the text is about
look for clues in the text to understand information
understand the meaning of visual features and link to written text, e.g. illustrations, photographs, diagrams and charts
identify words and pictures on-screen which are related to a topic

retell events from a narrative in the right order
identify information related to the subject of a text
recall details from information texts
use personal experience to support understanding of texts

express a view about the information in a text
explore language, information and events in texts
make links between texts read and other information about the topic.

Hi yes im in wales how did you know ?.

Thank you. She loves reading. Just orderd some more flash cards realy seem to help her.

Retired TA here - 'flash cards' aren't used much these days, I thought?

In the MN Book Reviews, "Children's educational books and courses" section there is a review of the Oxford Phonics Spelling Dictionary, which could be useful to children and parents, and will support reading right through primary school and into secondary.

Not stalking you, there was a thread a while ago about people who lived near Chester and you mentioned it on there - I am also in N. Wales near Chester.

Ill have a look thank you ferguson my dds teacher recomended flash cards at the very beginning of the year. Maybe they help when they are just starting to read.

haha littleMissGreen I forgot about that thread im near chester too.

I would say once they are about book band 6 then flashcards really wouldn't be much help. the only flashcards we have are some read write inc phonics ones which I think are very good (we have the more advanced set)

Which books does the school send home? are they phonics ones or the traditional old Biff, Chip and Kipper? it is worth being aware that the Biff etc ones are very formulaic and predictable and often children can read them very well but will then struggle with different books so if they are all the old ones then I would look at trying lots of other books at home to ensure that her skills are transferable to other texts. At level 6 she should be able to start tackling a lot of normal story books, she won't know all the words and she won't be able to sound all of them out either as she won't have the experience of all the phonic sounds but it would be very good for her to see she can read anything, not just biff chip and kipper.

DD2 is on level 6 at school (hopefully not for much longer as she is finding them very easy now) and is reading Winnie the Witch, Fancy Nancy, This is the Bear, Meg and Mog and tackling some of the early reader books too.