Book bands year 1

[tessiebear4]

What colour band do Year ones need to be on to meet expectations by the end of the year?

Between blue and orange?

Oh does it cover that range? I thought they had to be on orange or higher, but am not sure. DS is green borderline orange at the moment.

We say turquoise.

It's turquoise in our school.

Could anyone say what number the colours correspond to please? My DD is on band 7. I'm not sure what colour.

That would surely depend on how the school use the bands. Some schools push them through levels much quicker than others but other reading skills might not be at y1 standards level. When I hear readers I've had kids reading level 5 at DS's current school who wouldn't have been on level 3 yet at his previous school.

Twee, band 7 is turquoise iirc assuming it's band 7 of the same sort of scheme and not something different completely. Yes:
www.readingchest.co.uk/book-bands

Catkind is correct to meet "expectations" children must fulfil the assessment criteria not just read a certain coloured book band. I'm afraid book banding criteria just doesn't match that of the new National Curriculum.

Catkind thank you. It's all very confusing to me!

The Readingchest information is not linked to current expectations.

Yes, leveling on reading chest is definitely expectation from old NC.
I remember some teacher mentioning current requirement is shifted 2 level/stages to the right.
So why don't programme like reading chest adjust the expected age range to current standard?

Because they are based on book banding which doesn't match the curriculum and it really isn't as simple as being able to read books from higher coloured bands