Reception child reading, levels etc

[Noodles53]

Hi everyone,
After reading hundreds of threads about reading levels, I thought I would add my own to the mix!
My dd is 5 and in reception. She is currently on red level in school and brings one book home a week.

I’ve seen lots of threads on here of very smart reception aged kids who are ridiculously far ahead with their reading. Im aware dd is where she’s supposed to be with her reading but it would do no harm to challenge her right?

What are your tips and tricks to get your child moving forward. We have flash cards and sight words cards etc but I understand you’re not supposed to just memorise them? So does the child just move forward by reading a different book a day or do you have to teach lots of new words separately to the books and they recognise them when they’re reading? How does it work? At the moment she’s where she is just because of what she’s been taught in school. And I read a couple of storybooks to her at bedtime. Along with her one reading book a week.
Also want to mention that I brought a yellow book from library just to see how she’d do. And she was great. Odd words here and there that she couldn’t read but majority was good.
So any advice please..

[quote CrabbyCat]@Noodlenation my DD was like that. What was interesting is that if you gave her multiple choice she'd pick the right one most of the time - part of what she was struggling with seemed to be putting the answers into words. I've also had to teach her to start with what she does know. Often she can remember quite a lot of details like gender, age, hair colour, but if she'll default to saying I don't know if she doesn't remember a character's name...

If your library has them, DD got on very well with a series called Maverick Readers, our library has loads. They are based on Letters and Sounds for the earlier book bands, and have multiple choice comprehension questions at the back. My DD was a lot happier answering questions when they were written in the book, she got annoyed when they came from me.[/quote]
I’m off to the library tomorrow to have a look at these ones then. Thanks! I get the reading champion ones usually. But these maverick ones sound good with the questions at back.