Quick question about the Magic Key - ORT stage 5.

[Smithagain]

DD1 has come home today with her first book from ORT Stage 5. She was really excited. But is now completely gutted because the teacher has skipped her ahead a few books and she has "missed" the main, magic key stories at the beginning of stage 5. She has, apparently, been really looking forward to reading them. (Yes, I know she is on her own there !)

Can anyone who is just ahead of us tell me how long it will be before the Magic Key reappears if we just carry on from here? The one she has brought home is A Monster Mistake, and they are reading them in order. She wants me to ask the teacher to give us the first few books of Stage 5, but I'm kind of reluctant to ask for her to go "backwards"!

oh, sorry - x-posted - you have already encountered the key and it's origins!

god they are so boring

dd2 is in the middle of them atm and I really so wish there was an alternative

luckily they only do them up to year 2

Ooohhwe have just had the one where they move to a new house and find the dolls house - DD loved that one, even though it was really long! I find the ORT really tedious, but we read alsorts of things at home - from labels on packets to recipes when baking!

If you tell me which ones she has missed I am pretty sure I can type them out for her verbatim having heard them so many times

Thanks for your kind offer, Robinpud, but I don't think I'll put you through that particular ordeal

Sod's law - she has now skipped forward ANOTHER level and has missed all the core stories at level 6 as well! We found one of the ones she missed in a bookshop today and she read it in the shop. She has now accepted that it would be unreasonable for me to buy all of the books she has missed. She is going to ask her teacher if she can borrow the earlier books, to read in class, during "choosing time".

Why didn't I think of that?! No expense, no need to make waves in their literacy groups and lots of brownie points when she wants to read instead of playing with toys

And I am, of course, very proud of her and loving the fact that she really wants to read and it is all coming together. Such an exciting feeling!

ds wants the 6's aswell, they don't do ORT as a scheme at our school but have the books in the choosing boxes (however my mum taught him to read using them before he started school so he had read the earlier levels). He has read the 5's at achool after he found one in a box and really enjoyed it and I asked if he could have the rest of the series, this was over last half term.
He found a 6 in the box a few weeks ago and so I asked if he could have some more 6's - not sure if the teacher forgot but we didn't get any so I mentioned it to the teacher in the class he goes into to choose his books and was told "tbh I thiink given his level it is better if he reads more boardly atm rather than getting further and further ahead with a scheme, it is better for him to be reading a variey of stuff". Which would be fine, IF all he had been reading was ORT, but he hasn't read any since early November! And he would really really love to read some.
Oh well, will try again in a few weeks
Oersonally I enjoyed the level 5 stories with the magic key adventures, much better than some of the stuff he has been bringing home - some of which is older than me!

It's interesting how all the schools differ. My dd5 is reading stage 5 ORT, she read all the first 6 books then jumped to the last book in the more stories b and now is just flitting around them in no order. The school is pretty regimented in terms of every child reads every morning (2 to 8 pages) with either a teacher or volunteer and usually every book is read within the series. It's a slower process than what seems to happen at other schools but it seems to work...my dd was very accurate but flow was a little slow but we have now cracked that...just working on expression now.

The Magic Key books were good my dd enjoyed reading them. I had already read some of the later series to her and we also have the video's that help with punctuation & grammar.

Some libraries have ORT books. If not, take her Borders/Waterstones and let her read the few she has missed out on...treat the bookshop like a library! She sounds like a great little reader who has a huge love of books, excellent stuff.