What does 'level 16' mean wrt reading levels.

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Prior to summer holidays, DD was bringing home purple band books (ORT stage 8).

Since she's started year one, she's had one orange band book (ORT stage 6) which she found easy but enjoyable, and this weekend has a grey band book (ORT stage 13), Dr. X, which she found challenging.
On top of each page of her reading diary, the teacher has written 'level 16'. Does that in anyway correspond to book bands? Is it a national thing or something specific to DD's school?
Thanks.

mrz, If you have alternative system that works, great. But most of the posters asking about these are parents, who have no choice and knowledge.

So, short comment just saying something is bad, or being sceptical don't really help us. If you can give us advice how to do something, great, I appreciate it, but some of your comment just makes me very frustrated.

I have read dozens of posts along the following lines

OP: I'm worried because DS isn't in the expected book band for his age. How can I help him

Mrz: the school shouldn't be using book bands.

What are we as parents supposed to do? March into the school and tell them they're doing it wrong? We have to work with the methods they use.

So it's OK to challenge the school over the wrong colour but not over providing appropriate books? Can you explain the difference clapslap other than the statutory duty of schools to provide books matching the child's ability not bands.

Perhaps you need to read more widely

That's the problem with being an ascetic, it can really make you quite miserable and unpleasant.

Perhaps you need to read more widely

Eh? What, in general do you mean? Or specifically around teaching methods?

Genuinely baffled by this comment I'm afraid.

Well you seem to be familiar with my posts ...try reading all the posts challenging things schools do.

Okey dokey. I'll tell the school tomorrow they're doing it all wrong using the universal system of book bands. I'm sure that'll be well received and acted upon

Book banding isn't a universal system it's not even a national system so I wouldn't refer to it as such.

I feel like you are losing a plot, mrz.

There's a plot?

I'm plotting to sneak into the school and remove all books containing illustrations as the children are using visual cues to read

Our school goes purple then to grey for ks1. It could be that this school does similar. In my eyes for ds there is little difference in purple and grey.

How do you match a book to the child's ability without checking every book for every child before changing them? Or does there need to be a more up-to-date banding system?

Would books like Songbirds be correctly banded under such a system as they (I think) follow the phonics phases?

And how would it work once the children can decode everything?