Who else's school uses colour reading bands

[lexcat]

Their seems to be so many different reading schemes. dd 5.10 has colour book bands which seem good once they start reading.The only problem is they start them in reception and a lot of the child don't really seem to start really reading till y1.Meaning they stay on the pink level for three even four term and get very bored. Then the last levels seem to have alot of non-fiction which dd has become very bored with. Great to hear from other who school use this scheme as its always a hot topic with other parents in the playground.

Yes, our school uses the colour band system, absolutly no idea what was wrong with the old fashioned stages or levels, afterall, they are using the same books.

Ours do. The teacher says she doesn't know why and it is silly. She reckons each colour has varying degrees of difficulty in the reading but I don't agree with that.

I think ours does but I don't know anything about it (should take more interest really but mine are quite good readers so don't seem to need much help from me!)

Does anyone know what order the colours go in?

Well at our school I can't remember what order the colours go in but I do know that blue follows yellow.

The colour order tends to be different from school. Often there is a core scheme eg ORT, with books from other schemes slotted in as well. Within a colour band, there can be a range of levels of diffculty, because other schemes often have slightly different vocab content.

our school the colours go:
pink
red
yellow
blue
green
orange
turquoise
purple
gold
white

I only know as I help with reading. But don't know if this is the same at every school and what happens when they get to the white and where they go from their.

my dd reception class has colour reading boxes but they are in a different order to the ones you have listed and has only five colours - i think it is blue, yellow, pink, black and white

My DS's are too young for school yet, but I remember the use of a colour system from when I was at school in the 80's!! I was reading the highest colour

We have them in that order. At our school after white they go onto "free readers" which are short chapter books and similar.

I liked it better at our old school where we had ORT system. But my dds haven't complained about being bored - they like the factual books, which I find a bit boring.

I was under the impression that banded books was a national thing, under the NC, that is certainly what I undderstood form the last parents evening I attended when DD started school. Our colours sound very similar, if not identical to yors Lexcat.

Oh, and we have a lot of ORT books, and another redaing scheme, but they are included in the book bands.

Ours have colours, which I really like, as it goes some way to negating the 'what level is your ds on?', especially between schools (I HATE competition between children!). They do correspond to reading levels - I think ds1 is grey which is level 7 (I think), before that we had green, brown, and can't remember the rest.

That's the same as ours lexcat and are different reading scemes mixed up.

Yes, you're right, there are a few ORT books in our current school colour band scheme, and the last school had mostly ORT but also used the same colour bands.

I'm just missing the ORT books in the current school - I must be about the only mumsnetter whose children liked them.

I think TortoiseShell's school uses the Cliff Moon scheme, which then goes orange, black, beige, pink, light blue (DS1's first school used this).

yes, but no idea of what the colour order is, so I couldn't get competitive about it if I tried. I know brown is first, because that is what ds1 is on, and he has just started reading.

Some people do get really obsessive. I know one mum who collects her daughters bookbag even when she is going on a playdate, presumably to stop snooping in it!

Junior libary is what comes after white dd just moved up and very pleased with herself. She's been busy telling me the books are much more interesting now. I think she had a look at then with her teacher. I'm was not trying to be competitive with the posting as I am only to aware of the fact that every child learns at their own pace.
Just interested how school vary and what other mums think of the colour bands and makes a change from ort.