Wondering what book band your y1 is finishing on with the covid disruption

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Just interested what affect covid has ha d on reading.
my eldest was on lime i think
youngest is on purple at end of y1

No book bands. They've been done away with.

The majority of my year 1 children are leaving me on RWI orange and yellow books.

RWI here too. My dd is on grey books.

Different schools use different reading schemes and bands .....

On Gold but possibly might finish on white as she’s finding the gold pretty easy. There are 2 others with her. There are quite a few on purple and turquoise and then most on bands below. I suspect there is a massive range in the class tbh and I know some need additional intervention. Our phonics books are pointless now as the level is so massively different so I’m glad the school has kept with some book band books for home reading. My daughter despises reading the bloody phonics book 3/4 times when she read most of them at the end of reception and finds them utterly dull.

My hunch is also that covid hasn’t made as much difference at the top end. I’m sure it has made a big difference for those finding it challenging but I’m not convinced mine would have been any better as a lot of the effort was making the time to read every day. I do think she’d have been further ahead with writing though without covid.

Yours will be ahead as will mine. The bookband threads only ever give a distorted picture.

I think there is such a variety. My DD is on orange band at school, but reads the 13 storey treehouse at bedtime to herself, which I would imagine is higher than orange. She’s just finished the 5th book in the series listening to her read to herself.
They do this three read thing for school books, first read for decoding, second for fluency and third for comprehension. They need to read each book in the band before moving up. This means it takes ages to move through the bands but she still learns a lot with comprehension and fluency from reading them even if they’re a bit easier then what she reads at home.

Mine’s been on lime for a month or so.

Yes we have been having to read them twice which i dont think has helped progress. As a couple of times book hasnt been changed as not read twice.
Bands seem quite high then. But i guess 50% of kids didnt miss any of reception and others may have received books even in lockdown or get more than 2 books a week.
With dc2 the biggest challenge has been time as she does clubs 3 days a week and dc1 the other 2

My DD is on Gold but some of her class are still on the decodeable phonics books ( school seems to have these and then move back to book bands).

Purple. Struggles massively with writing though.

Started on red, ending on gold. But after speaking to some families, schools do vary in their approach to reading, phonics and reading bands. My sons school is giving the band below to focus on comprehension skills in preparation for year 2. So there's context missing when comparing reading band between schools.

I go in to read in DDs school. The children vary from a few on pink and red to some on lime. Lots seem to be around green/orange/purple.

At DDs school, once they get to around purple bans they only have to read the book once and they can change them themselves any day so DD can have a new book every day if she needs.

DD is in Year One and reads various diction and non fiction books from school, usually about 30 pages long. Tonight she completed level 10
Oxford Reading Tree fiction book.

She is a fluent reader who can easily read complex sentences and paragraphs. She did attend nursery and school throughout all lockdowns though as we are both keyworkers.

Orange
Although he is clearly (to me) above this level, they don’t seem to be listened to much in school and books are only changed once a fortnight or so
At home he’s reading ‘early readers’ books and he reads lots of non fiction fact style books, they’re his favourite

Orange. I’m taking any progress after the shitshow that was lockdown for us as a massive win.

That’s RWI

My summer born yr 1 (she's 5, almost 6) is on white but is independently reading small chapter books like Zoe Zoo Rescue.

Her reading is more advanced than her older sister's was, so lockdown doesn't seem to have had any impact on her reading. However the impact on the elder's maths is a whole other topic.

I don't think this is the best way to "research". Going by the answers on this thread so far, not only weren't the majority of children impacted by lockdown.... they benefited from it.

Free reader. But as others have said, he benefited from lockdown as reading was the one thing I felt confident doing with him.

I did not, however, feel confident writing with him and it really shows, he struggles with writing and is getting a bit disheartened.

He's my youngest of 4 and they all read at very different paces.

Think this thread will be skewed by those who’s kids are above average, but anyway, same, DS is on purple.

Almost all the people commenting and saying their children are reading at a higher than expected level for year one. Perhaps a tad self selecting a group. Anecdotally in our school year 2 have been most impacted reading wise so they have put loads of resource in to help them catch up.

Assume you’ve seen this - green, orange or turquoise would be most ‘normal’ at the end of year one.

Gold and moving to white shortly. A few others in her year on similar.

Blue. Started year 1 on pink, and I'm super proud!

Our school ensures comprehension at each level before moving up, so it's nothing to do with how many books they've read or how easy they find the actual reading. Though obviously they need to actually be able to read it as well!

Yeah, @Dancingwithhyenas it’s turned into a slightly boasty thread. Presume all the people with kids who are struggling are staying away

Maybe. But i would say dd year did seem to be doing well reading (maybe the key worker kids?) So that it meant they were reading weekly with dd from march! And that surprised me because i actually got her to read at home and she could read nearly orange then. So for that to be in requiring help group (contact that she only read a few times altogether since starting reception prior to this -maybe 6. And dc1 only ever twice per term.
However looking at the ks2 reading 'improved' obviously its all scaled but still its supposedly not dropped like all other subjects.
But yes i assume there will be some not doing well. But there is the psc for schools to work towards so maybe thats kept the focus on reading.
I think if schools either gave books during lockdown or gave say 4 a week since then those kids may not be very affected. Our progress has increased with more books. Frustrating that its when the books are longer.
I guess reading is the most important as they with cover the maths and writing going forward.

Mine seems to be doing ok with writing after it being ok but not good in reception. Its something that they spend more time doing from very little in reception.
I think they should still do the ks1 sats next year (they are supposed to stop) as it would be good to see kids arent still affected /behind

These threads always attract people who's DC are doing well. So I'll come on to provide the counter point.
DD is in P2 and can't read. She's on whatever the lowest band is. We're working on Reading Eggs over the summer holidays (Scottish schools are off already) and she's making some progress.

I don't think lockdown was a factor. In fact, lockdown was quite productive. We spent it learning all the letters and how to write her name.

She then got stuck on blending and, obviously, without that skill, she didn't make a lot of progress. We had her on the Peter and Jane books for a bit as they teach whole word recognition. She did learn to recognise some of the most common words. But really it was a case of waiting for that one skill to click.

My DS was also late to read as a result of being in a state of autistic burnout pretty much all the time at school (sadly we only twigged in hindsight). He learned at 7. Also via Reading Eggs (I cant recommend it enough). He's nearly 10 now and chooses books from the adult section of the library (geeky non fiction) so it's not harmed him in the long term.

It's tempting to compare but they all get there in their own time.