Any other children not doing a reading scheme?

[Froglette]

My sons school have colour banded books that they choose their reading books from, rather than following a specific scheme such as ORT.

If schools do this is it all part of a wider system or down to how the individual teacher or school have categorized?

Our school have the same system, lots of different books and not just one reading scheme.
I have been told that it is because they dont want to restrict the childrens reading to one style and also to allow the children to choose what appeals to them most. They have ficton and non ficton books to choose from at every level.

DD1 (just moved into Y1) started off on the Oxford Reading Tree, but has also been given Spiral Starters, Ginn 360 and books from another scheme whose name eludes me. I'm not sure how the books are chosen for her, but they seem, in a rough way, to track her progress. I think it's helpful not to be tied into a single scheme - it makes reading more interesting, mixes up the format and presentation of books and makes it much harder for the school mums to be competitive. (Actually competition is completely out of the question for us as DD's best friend and school-run share is sooo far ahead of DD1 that's she's just been started on The Complete Works of Dickens (unabridged)!)

The school my two go to has a range of different schemes that the school has graded. Like BBM's school they have fiction and non fiction.

So ds is on yellow 2, but has the choice or ORT books, Ginns, Early readers, 'ladybird' type books about dinosaurs etc

He can only have books at his reading level, but it is a very wide range

DS has those for home reading but ORT for guided reading in class.