Reading Level Issue

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ds1 is in year 1 he has been on a particular reading level for a while now about 6>8 weeks with no problems and sailing through them like nobodys business.

He gets a new reading book every night. Tonight he has come out with a reading book which is part of the previous level he was on, but, it does have five chapters and 46 pages.

Has anybody else had experience of this? Should I mention to the teacher why all of a sudden a lower level, or, is it just the fact different text so expanding his reading range?

Any comments and opinions greatly appreciated

any advice really appreciated, thanks

maybe his class have run out of books for his level and trying to sort out something,

DD in same position gone on to year 3 books but actual fact three steps back as easier than on before - give it a few days before asking though

We get this sometimes too. Usually the book will have a couple of really long/hard words in it, and the rest will be easy. Our teacher said they like to keep the confidence up, especially when building up to the harder words. We'll have one of these, then back up on the harder books again.

Any help?

thanks you are probably right and along the lines I was thinking. Most of his books are 32 pages but this one was 46 pages, and yes, insisted on reading all of it, he loves reading.

Is he gaining anything out of reading those books? Is he enjoying them. Maybe the teacher is working on getting him to read with expression rather than dull decoding of words.

It is sad to think of reading in terms of levels. My son's school uses the Oxford Reading Tree. The books in the reading stages seem to vary wildly in difficulty.

At dd school they pick the books themselves. There are different coloured boxs of books and the child chooses from the colour box they are on. It does mean sometimes that the books get in the wrong box and child do sometimes come home if the wrong levels.
My dd has in the past come home with books below her level and above.
Maybe it was just a one off by accident.

Hi All, i had a word with his teacher this morning. She said there are a couple of children at the same level which is quite high for year 1 and the problem is that when they get to this level in year one some of the books for the level of his reading become a little unsuitable. For example he come home with a book a week or so ago which was about the invention of electricity, pylons and conduction etc... My ds1 words were "did they get this book from the prep school"

So what the teacher is now doing is giving them free readers books which would be the same as going to a libary and choosing an appropriate paperback.

This way she is getting them to read lots of different texts in different styles of writing.

It was son who initially pointed the colour coded sticker to me. When I also mentioned this the teacher said quite abruptly "they all need to get over the sticker issue" . I smiled nicely and said I just like to be kept informed with his education and I am not being pushy or anything, she is the teacher I am not. She then apologised.

We have had problems in past with DDs, coming home with books that are far too simple and for them a bit boring so no sense of achievement. They were getting books from the next year up still easy but the teacher says "I can't have them doing any other books from that year otherwise what will they read when they do get to that year" err! pardon! isn't there an almost infinite number of childrens books

Have heard from a teacher friend that children have to be held back as there is a limit of what they can do in primary school and they are worried about their value added scores.

Though out of interest, why is a book on the invention of electricity and pylons/conduction unsuitable for Y1? It sounds very interesting, and much more suitable than lots of fiction aimed at an older age group.

Hi singers it is not that the subject wasnt suitable, it was especially for ds1 who loves that kind of thing it was more the presentation and writing style of the book, you had to see it to belive it

Hi confused didnt realise that, things seem to be ok, he is on free readers now so will let it ride a little until maybe May half term and see what happens then.