Reading Y1

[midas]

I am wondering if teachers out there can help me.
I have a son in YR1, finished OLT level 5 before mid term, I was expecting level 6 OLTS.

What he has been bringing home for the past week is ladybirds 4c-Read it yourself books.

We were told they were using OLT, he never reads to TA or teacher and I did ask at the last meeting and was told they do a "round the table reading " .

Is this normal, he is my first , I was under the impression that they move up levels on the same reading scheme until they "finish".

He is my first so do not know how it works.

Many schools use a variety of schemes to help bring on skills and comprehension. dd has hopped about, not done all at one stage of ORT then been on other schemes for a bit. Her school uses colour banding so across the different schemes there is a rough approximation of level. So for example Stage 11 ORT is labelled silver which might corrspond with a book of comaprable difficulty from another scheme, graded differently but also labelled silver.

Yes - DSs school uses a variety of books or similar level which is good as some are stores, some facts etc. I think it's a bot odd if he never is heard one to one reading aloud ? 'Round the table reading' sounds like small group guided reading, where the teacher or TA may ask questions about the text to check understanding as well as listening to the children read aloud.