Reading levels - Jelly & Bean

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DD has been reading one J&B book a day for the whole of Reception (so boring now!) and is currently on the English vowel / orange series. I read a lot on MN about reading levels and targets for the end of Reception, but as hardly any schools seem to use J&B I have no idea how they compare and how DD is doing against the target. Your advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

www.jellyandbean.co.uk/uploads/pdfs/RO25Sept2012.pdf

But I don't think you can always compare easily between schemes.

Thanks, very helpful. So her book is orange band / phase 5. Is that about right for this stage in reception? PFB so nothing to compare with.

Actually, orange band more equivalent to ORT6. It is really confusing with all the bands and phases, etc.

So, she is doing really well. National Curriculum's expectation for end of Reception is ORT3-4.

BTW - I love J&B books, used it to teach DD2 to read. Its a nicely planned phonics based system. Compared to Biff & Chip ORT where there are sill a lot of "look and guess" type of words.

Thanks MM. Much appreciated.

Jelly and bean books are good. I agree it must be a bit boring if the school uses nothing but jelly and bean. Thankfully our reception used a mixture of decidable books.

I don't think you can compare decidable books to book bands. The approach to teaching reading is different.