Reading books approx ORT level 9, any recommendations please

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I would like to purchase some books for my DD to read herself as she is becoming much more confident. I want something that will hold her interest. She can read chapter books but I think finds them a bit daunting at this stage in terms of length. She is approximately level 9 ORT if that makes sense. We have previously got Songbird Phonics books which have been good but I can't seem to find them for this level. Any recommendations would be good! Thanks

Not quite sure what ORT 9 is but try the Happy FAmilies series of books by Allan Ahlberg (quite short but funny and different types of sentence structure. Or DK do a good series of beginner readers. And there's also a bananas series (where the books are levelled as yellow/red/blue bananas depending on difficulty.

If you don't mind being bored silly for the next 3 years you could also introduce her to Rainbow Fairies :)

www.amazon.co.uk/Ottoline-Yellow-Cat-Chris-Riddell/dp/1405050578/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1421671798&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=ottoline

these books ^ are stunning, very short chapters, lots of beautiful pictures, fun story line, 3 of them and goth girl also.

brilliant for new readers...

george marvellous medicice and the twits are two great short dhals

check out amazon as each books leads you to new ones and also charity shops...and the childrens books section on here is good too.

Thank you! Redsky what is DK?

Usborne Young Readers may be a good start. Still lots of picture, chapters but short and lots of classical stories in short form.

Simple Roald Dahl like Esio Trot or George's marvellous medicine

Magic Treehouse Books.

I would start with a trip to the library and see what his interests are. I found that what I like is not necessary DD's taste in books and it avoids expensive mistakes.

Lighthouse Keeper books by Rhonda and David Armitage, Katie in the Art Gallery ones by James Mayhew, pretty much all your picture books, Paddington etc are all ones she will be able to read. Try some of the Early Reader ones. The Usborne Young Reading Series One (think that is the right name) are around level 10ish and my girls loved the pictures, The Princess and the Pea was a particular favourite because it was quite an entertaining version of it. Most libraries should have those. I agree that this stage is quite expensive if you want to buy books. Once they start on longer books they rarely read them more than once. I have spent a fortune.
Rainbow Fairies, Secret Mermaid etc are all around that too. worth bearing in mind though that some Rainbow Fairies are harder than others so don't let her be put off if she struggles with one.
To be honest at that level I would probably stick with the longer picture story books and early reader simple short chapter books with colour pictures. No rush to move on to full chapter books. My youngest is about level 11 although doesn't read school books, she reads a mix of chapter books, early readers and still some of her old favourite picture books. The confidence they can gain from reading the picture books is very valuable in encouraging them to move on to harder books.

DK is a publisher.

Try the longer picture books that are around 32 pages. Flat Stanley, the lighthouse keeper picture books that are a large square shape, the bigger Winnie the witch books (you can get 3 stories in 1 books, which work out loads cheaper, or the book people generally have a set of ten or twelve for a tenner or so), the octonauts stories, burglar bill, Funnybones, Harry and the bucketful of dinosaurs ...

If I'm on the right lines, let me know, and I will think of some more.

Animal Crackers by Rose Impey have gone down well here.

Also just take her to the library and have a look at the 'Learning to read' or 'Early reader' sections. There are often interesting books there you can try and it doesn't matter if she doesn't like them, just swap them next week...

Wonderful, thanks for all the very helpful suggestions, most of which we haven't got. Planning a visit to the library already! Thanks!

Ds is currently reading the 'Magic Treehouse' books (£10 for 10 on the book people).

Ivy and Bean (if not now, then very soon).

Clementine (US)
Daisy books (sigh)
Allan Ahlberg family books
magic treehouse
Horrid henry easy readers

Also - Colour Young Puffin -- is great for this level as a transition from early readers to chapter books. Puffins still have lots of colourful pictures, and small chapters with medium sized letters and spacing. So it doesn't look as "daunting" to the young ones.

Usborn Young reading are great as well -- here is their list of books organised by reading level.

www.usborne.com/downloads/book-bands/urp-book-bands-nc3.pdf

I find that with these early readers kids would only read these books once (or twice), and it can get rather expensive. As DD1 was going through a lot of books, I started buying used ones on Amazon. And the quality is rather good, most of the time. Alternatively, you can try early reader section in the Library.

Dd has enjoyed the Genie Street (ladybird) set of books, all from our lovely local library.