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

DS finishing on White.

The last ‘extra’ books DC had were white, but they do little wandle in class and the equivalent is orange

It really does vary so wildly - from schools who don't have certain bands or who've changed them for whatever reason, to schools who don't book band at all, or ones where the reading books are in such chaos it's pot luck what the kids come back from the reading trolley with!

Mine are a bit older and so were past the "phonics" stage when lockdowns hit and so might have been into the territory where parental confidence with how reading is taught these days is less of a "thing" - but their reading's been largely unaffected. DD2's dropped from above expected to expected - but I suspect that's the transition between KS1 and KS2 expectations and increased language demands as we know she has some language processing issues... DD1 will read the print off the cereal packet and is a massive bookworm anyway.

MN gets batshit insane about bookbands though - I'm pretty much indifferent as long as they're actually ENJOYING reading. It's a hell of a lot easier to turn a kid off reading for life than it is to bring a child who's lagged behind a little bit back up to speed!

DC's school don't let children go any higher than turquoise at the end of Year 1. They focus on comprehension and learning new vocab, and generally build the habit of reading and enjoying reading.

So mine is on turquoise now but reads her own books at home, which she spends more time on. She loves reading and writing her own stories.

I would honestly not worry about book bands. What matters is that they carry on reading for as long as possible and that they enjoy the experience of it. I know a girl in Y4 who is on dark blue but her reading age is 13 and incredibly gifted in English

Turquoise, he’s in a reading group and goes up in groups though not individually. I think he would be slightly higher individually but I’m not pushing it as it’s not a race 😁

Dc2 in yr1 is on green band but is reading the secret seven to me and herself. School will not move her on, she has to go through the bands.
dc1 is yr2 (mixed class) and is only just on orange band, capable reader now but had a lot of extra support with reading & phonics this past year. I have dc3 in reception who is a capable reader already but won’t go past pink until assessed in yr1. No longer fussed about bands as long as my children can read and enjoy it, and their school has a particular way of going through them.

I said level 10 in another post, which is white in the coloured bands.