How many books do schools usually have per reading level?

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Last year my DD's teacher seemed to move her up a reading level when she thought that she was ready but this year's teacher seems to want her to read all of the books in a level before moving her up. DD has now read around 20 books at her current level, so I'm wondering how many more there are to go!

DD's comprehension of the books is very good - we discuss them after reading - but she isn't bored as she enjoys the stories and is quite ahead anyway, so I'm not worried about not being moved up a level yet. I am wondering if she's being held back for others to catch up as she's a couple of levels ahead of the rest of the children on her table but again, as she is enjoying what she is reading, I'm not too worried.

How often does she read with the teacher? If it's fairly frequently (ie once a week at least) then you should trust the teacher's judgement and assessment. It may not be to do with 'how many books'; more that the teacher is not ready to move her on.

It happened to DD1 most of Y1 and Y2. She loves reading, and was several levels ahead of the rest of the class in Y1. Our school had a silly policy of not allowing kids to become "free readers" until Y3, so she had to be on levelled books until then. But they deemed books beyond Level14 ORT to be "not appropriate" for her age. So, they wanted to make sure that she moves up very slowly, and reads all the books in the level.

I used to get annoyed about it, as at some point the school books became too simple and boring. I stopped reading school books with her - let her read them by herself (or not, is she chose). Instead she read to me one of the other books she was reading.

You daughter still is enjoying the school books, and it's all that matter. Don't worry about her school reading level - just make sure she has lots of other interesting books to read.

Thanks for the replies. I'm not really bothered about levels as long as she is enjoying what she is reading and isn't bored, and we have lots of other books at home to read. I was just curious how many books a school usually has at each level, given that we've already had about 20!

I think ours has easily up to 80 on some levels....

Sorry - looks like my computer want crazy yesterday! :) I have not idea how to remove these multiple posts...

You can't MM, don't worry it just happens sometimes!
I'm not sure tbh, our school doesn't seem to want them to read them all, but it could certainly be a lot. Might be worth asking?

If I remember right DD1 read about 26 books at one or 2 levels and DD2 similarish but a bit less. But then they equally did other levels with only a handful of books. I am not sure if there was really a logic involved in it because to be honest they were always behind on levels compared to ability and the staff always said comprehension, expression etc were great so I do think there was probably a certain degree of time filling going on. It didn't worry me until they started moaning about them being boring, no real choice etc so if she is happy then that is the main thing. If she gets to choose then perhaps suggest she uses the opportunity to try different styles like poetry, plays, non fiction etc if they have them in the box as that can help liven it up a bit as well as develop slightly different skills.

Looks, like there may be lots to go then. There doesn't seem to be any Biff and Chip at least, although they were DD's favourite!

Don't worry about the multiple posts MM, it's happened to me before

ooh count yourself lucky no Biff etc. I was SO happy when DD2 stopped those ones.

A lot more than 20 IME.
My kids are a bit older so don't do reading levels anymore but neither of them exhausted the supply of books at a particular level before moving on.
Mind you, some of the school's books are actually 40/50 years old!!!!! Mixed up with newer ones. So they have tonnes and are about to have a clear out - depends on your school.

Maki79, it's great that your DD is doing well and has started to enjoy reading. We found that wanting to read made a big difference for my DD and that was when her reading really took off.