Reading level in Y2

[NoAngel1]

Hi all
My DD (aged 7 and in Y2 now) seemed to be doing ok with her reading in Y1 but just hasn't progressed much over the last few months. The school have sent a rubbish curriculum sheet but aren't providing any opportunities for us to ask questions and have cancelled parents evenings so I don't seem to be able to get my questions answered!

She is bringing home 3 reading books per week and these are available on active learn. They're level 5. What level should she be on at this age? How can I push her on myself at home? Please could someone in the know help me out! Thanks.

The Reading Chest website has a good explanation of reading levels.

Here's a link to the Reading Chest Book Bands page that Aroundtheworld refers to.

These are Oxford Reading Tree book bands. The level 5 you refer to may or may not map to these, so you might need to look elsewhere.

When you say your DD hasn't progressed much recently, do you mean she's not going up the book bands, or do you not feel you're seeing improvement when she reads out loud to you?

Does she recognise familiar words and read them confidently? Does she use her phonics knowledge to decode unfamiliar words, and if so, does she do this out loud or in her head? Does she guess at words? Does she understand what she has read? Does she read with expression?

If you can describe what you mean by lack of progress, I'm sure some people will come along with some suggestions.

Op, buying the reading chest subscription was the best thing we did for struggling dd in lock down.
She went from stodgy 6, to smoother 8 simply because I was able to keep the reading scheme going in lock down.

What's her spelling like? Again I spout about this rainbow 🌈 board that changed dd spelling, physically moving the letters down.. Also spelling with mnemonics..

Ie would, could, should... O u lucky duck words..

Thought... O u grumpy hippo words.

I strongly feel my dd has dyslexia gets lots of reversals like was /saw, does /goes.

I also have a tutor for mine now.

Reading eggs was also a good boost for her during lock down, literally 4 mins a day if that!

Also, some dc don't get phonics.

We went back to flash cards for high frequency words, and Peter and Jane books! To get her flowing again and confident.
She uses a mixture of stuff to read, phonics, rules, sight words...

Hi op my little one is 7 in year 2 aswell he is on level 9 but its oxford reading tree so I'm not sure how the levels compare he enjoys reading does your little one? Are they reading at home? They do lots of reading in school they choose their own books and get set times to read at their desk but also if they finish their work ect. Is your daughter reading at school ? If so I would imagine the teacher is keeping an eye but if you are worried I would send a message to their teacher.

Have the school given you another way to communicate? We can email teachers with questions now.

I would up how often she is reading to you, even if that means shortening the sessions but doing them more frequently (eg 5 minutes before school and 15 minutes after). I would personally stick with phonics as well, there are some good videos on youtube to help practice the sounds.

Two of my children started learning to read with a phonics reading scheme that's not that great at reinforcing the more complex phonic sounds once you get past reception and they both struggled with becoming fluent readers in this middle bit (yr 2 - 3) and aren't great at spelling. The one that has started on read write inc is doing miles better at year 2. I think the extra years continuing to practice those more complex phonetic sounds everytime you read has really helped, and if I had a child that was struggling those are the phonics books I would get.

My ds is year 2 as well op and also been put onto green/stage 5 books since September. He was on turquoise/stage 9 before lockdown which he can read but he’s a lot lot more fluent with the green ones. The teacher said she’s put them all back as she wanted them to get their confidence back before starting to push them which I thought was probably a good idea seeing as we didn’t do a great amount of reading over lockdown.

Sorry I’m talking rubbish! Turquoise/stage 7! We are on oxford reading tree.

I found doing a range of reading books was helpful. (As long as she can read them reasonably fluently - font struggle through sounding out every other word). If she's happy doing it do at least one book a day, try her on a level 6, let her choose the stories that are most interesting to her. The 'see inside' Osborne books are good the phoenix comic is also great as non reading scheme stuff (let's them feel more grown up and get into reading for fun not just as a chore!). If she can manage those have a go on mini chapter books like 'dragon masters' or rabbit and bear.