How many years above/below their chronological age is your dc's reading age?

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I was wondering how much it is the norm to fluctuate?

I dont know, I get the feeling she can ead well for her age but that is it.

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Depends on their age. In year 3, for instance, the scale they're measuring on probably doesn't go above 12 or below 6.

My own reading age is 102 obviously.

dunno. He is 6.3 and on ORT 11. According to his report he is "above the level expected for his age".

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I haven't come across anyone scored as below their age, to be honest - think the scores are a bit skewed, probably for fair reasons.

The only worth of the testing is to see if there's progress - so test at regular intervals, see how the child is getting on. Otherwise, doesn't really mean much.

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Does being on blah blah level of the Oxford Reading tree indicate how well your child can read? My son is on stage 4 and the books seem to vary wildly in level of difficulty. I think the idea is so that the teacher can test your child on a higher book without actually moving them up a level. It would be awful if a child got moved up a stage and then moved back down because they couldn't cope.

gawd, I dunno.

what do you mean by fluctuate? if you mean that their reading progresses really well then stalls for a bit (or vice versa), that's perfectly normal I think

DS's friend got that his reading was below the expected level on his report.

Not really francess because at one point (before Christmas) DS was on a level that was much too easy for him. I'm just giving the info that I know. Somebody else might be able to interpret that.

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All tests for RA have a ceiling, i.e. they only test up to a certain level: sometimes this is 12 sometimes 14 or a little higher.

If children really take off with their reading, read a lot, and become very fluent it is not uncommon for them to have a RA of 12, 13, or 14 when they are 6, 7 or 8.

DD1 and DS2 both went off the top of the reading age scale (something like 12.6 at that time) in Y2 - AFAIK the test then just consisted of a string of words of increasing difficulty, it wasn't about context or comprehension.

DD1 (now grownup) was and is a total bookworm, DS2 (now 14) only reads football magazines

Not sure how they judge this to be honest, but DD is nearing the end of Year 1 and we've been told she has the reading ability of a child entering Year 3.

From what I can gather from mums who help with reading in class, there is a huge huge difference in ability through each class with some barely recognising simple letters/words and others devouring quite complex books.

DD like Malory Towers - at 8 it was measured by Ed Psych at 13.8 and at 10 DS was similiar.

TBH is does not matter how far ahead they are in reading age - it's the comprehension and understanding that's most important - and most important of all - they are reading! Doesn't matter if it is ORT, Wuthering Heights or the Sports Pages in the paper.

Keep 'em reading and if the reading scheme is pants ditch it for something else - hugely unpopular with teachers of course.

how do you know what their RA is? Is it a special mumsnet thing?

We used to get it as part of school reports in the bad old days before the Nat Curric.

DS1 was off the scale when at primary school. That only meant his reading was above the level for which the test was designed. He stopped reading books as a teenager and still doesn't read them now at university, but does read newspapers/Economist.
I can see that it might matter if you are below chronological age, but does it matter otherwise?

We get given their reading age in years and months at parents evenings, but emphasis seems to be on progress rather than measure. Not sure that the tested reading age is followed too closely for reading books as they seem to work on different things (eg different styles of books), but I could be wrong.

Ds's school is big on reading, so I think even the children where English is spoken at home are reading at or above the norm. There is one boy who isn't yet and he is repeating reception (which presumably will cause headaches later on).

Both of my dcs were reading well below their age in Year 2 but are now both cosidered to be reading beyond 14 years of age in Years 3 and 5. So please, please do not despair if your child is not 'performing' as well as some of the other 'circus animals' in their year at any given stage.

Children are individuals and they all learn at their own pace and in their own way.

It is NOT a sign of brilliance or ignorance if you are exceeding or barely meeting everyone's expectations.

No idea tbh . ds is at least age approritate and dd above but by how much ?

thanks for that mellofahess i was starting to feel very depressed.