What reading level should my 5 year old/year 1 child be on?

[winterrabbit]

Just had parents evening and been told my 5 year old (June 2018) boy is behind in his reading and handwriting. He is on Oxford Reading Tree level 2 which I thought was fine and his handwriting seems ok to me so was a bit surprised. In his end of Reception report he was meeting expectations in all areas so wondering how he has fallen behind so quickly in 6 weeks.

Except bowlyn !

Er, it's a valid comment. I'm all for everyone being represented including my son who is white. Not reflective of UK society, just yet, to have all the characters in the book from global ethnic majorities is it? Just OTT virtual signalling.

I'd give up digging a further hole if I was you as you're just embarrassing yourself now.

I'd love to know what books your child is receiving from ORT for every single character to be non-white as they certainly never use to be (Biff, Chip and Kipper were white last time I looked). If you're talking about books featuring their friends Wilf and Wilma and their own mum and dad then yes I would expect the whole book to contain non-white characters if it is purely based in their home about those 4 characters... they are a black family after all 🙄

Genuinely, I would love to know if ORT have actually released some new modernised books which I don't know about. My own school's collection of reading books could do with diversifying. Thanks👍🏻

Just in case this is useful. I had it saved on my phone.

The usual gaslighting response from Boleyn.

Of course a 5 year old can be behind, and intervention would be put in place for a y1 child who was still on ORT level two at my school. We loosely go by the chart posted above and aim to have y1s at least on level 6 by summer, but that’s not going to happen for al children.

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What is that suppose to mean exactly? Firstly what I wrote is definitely not gaslighting. Secondly you don't even know me, so how on Earth can you claim something I've said is my usual response? I don't believe we've ever had correspondence before on here, I'm actually quite new.

From what I can see, you made a throwaway comment about race in children's books and didn't like it when you were picked up on it. That is not gaslighting!

Again, if you genuinely can share a link to these modern ORT books I would love to see them as they've passed me by until now...

Flowery, I disagree with the word behind. All kids learn to read at their own pace. Some earlier than others. Doesn't make any difference in the long run. My son is reading ORT level 2 at school but reads level 3 at home quite easily. It's completely possible he'll end year 1 on ORT level 6 or higher given that there are still 9 months of the year left! I recall one time my older son jumped up 2 reading levels in a few weeks. Really glad I have some frame of reference with my older kids otherwise this thread would have completely freaked me out.

Do you know what virtue signalling and gaslighting is? Your comment was unnecessary and irrelevant, it showed your tunnelled, bigoted views and nothing more. What's even more telling is that to add it in to your post and think nothing of it shows it's the kind of thing you probably add in to every day conversation too and think it's acceptable. I'd be more worried about passing on your bigoted views on than the level of their reading

What's bigoted about making a factual statement? Please enlighten me? How do you know what I add into daily conversation? I'll decide what's necessary and relevant, not you.

I didn't see a problem with your first mention of it, yes, mostly ethnic minorities would indicate new books. The follow up post doesn't put you in good light, why would it matter if there are no white children in the books? I'm sure there are white children in picture books you read at home so your children do get to see children like them represented.

We have little wandle as reading scheme and the pace is slow with no one going beyond phase 5 at the end of yr one. It's about giving books with sounds they are learning in the week.

Off topic, but how do you say wandle? Is the a like 'a for apple' or 'o' like in wand?

I've heard the teachers say it like 'o' in wand. Wondle.

My favourite bit of this thread is this question
a synthetic phonics scheme with a name that's not technically decodable makes me chuckle!