ORT Levels.. how do they work and what age group is an average for Level 10?

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We don't really do 'ORT Levels' at dds school but she has an ORT Level 10 reading book at the mminute and I wondered (after seeing other threads on here) whether it would be an opportunity to gauge her reading 'age' iykwim

TIA

anything that gest themr eading is good

and to read them while in reception would suggestyou were an 'advanced' reader for your age

but they are CRAPOLA

seriously, but they are all obsessed by them. and once one has appeared the rest swarm.
are there really still independent bookshops with a conscience? I feel like I'm in the re-run of 'you've got mail'...
where are they?

I hate the rainbow fairies! And there are SO MANY of them!

I would only encourage rainbow fairies if they really weren't reading anything else and I was feeling desperate. I can't see any other reason for encouraging such crap.

There are quite a lot of simple first chapter books, I collected a lot of them, things like Milly molly mandy, dilly the dinosaur, Horrid henry, some of the younger Anne Fines (Bill's new frock etc) and Jacqueline Wilsons (Connie and the water babies). Also Dick King-Smith (Sophie's Tom, Sophie's Snail, etc).

They are not all perfect but they have to be better than books written by corporations to a set formula, Mills and Boon-like.

Ah, of course, there is a theory that formulaic texts play a v important part in establishing early reading skills... (tee hee) not that I'm disagreeing mind (honest, my first post said 'be warned!'eek!) we do have milly molly mandy, horrid henry, amelia jane (showing my age), etc etc, just pointing out that if you have a birthday party for a yr 1 girly, all you get is flipping rainbow fairies (thinks...) am I hanging out with the wrong sort of people then?

Oooh, have found a list on amazon for suggested first 'chapter' books, it's fantastic!

Mrs Pepperpot, My Naughty Little Sister, Milly Molly Mandy, Gobbolino the Witches Cat etc

picture books are great IMO (for budding readers)

Mog, Pumpkin soup, room on the broom

imaginative, sometimes rhyming language, fabby

Dr Seuss is also good -that was what really got ds1 reading independently - he found it so funny! And anything by Julia Donaldson is great - ds2 LOVES Tiddler atm (it is one of the only words he can say - Tler Tler) - something like Squash and a Squeeze is quite repetitive, and good rhymes.

i hate rainbow fairies. (did i say that before?)

i have a problem, in that dd2 has books memorized without reading them. she can recite all of the gruffalo off by heart, which is amazing, but soemtimes i dont know if she is actually reading things or just memorizing the text.

misdee - get her to point to the words as she reads the book - then even if she's memorized the book, she is 'seeing' the word which will help with the reading anyway.

oh she does.

but after reading a book once, sounnding it out, she can pretty much zip through it so quickly.

just remember my dbro who could recite books off by heart, fooled everyone into thinking he could read, he is actually dyslexic. mind you he was doing this before he started school, whereas dd2 only learnt to read in january.

well see how she goes with a book with similar words that she has never heard before?

she read out a peice from the jolly postman today in assembly, she looked so proud.

she can read, am just worrying at how fast she is reading, am not used to it after dd1 rocky start, and its a different way of learning to read as well.

its good though to be able to recall things easily, isnt it?

SHe sounds like she's doing fine misdee! They do definitely learn in different ways - ds1 learnt by sightwords, dd by blending. They both then added in the other system, to read more fluently.

mine all know room on the broom, gruffalo, charlie cook etc without the book - we recite them on the way to school sometimes - is that sad? we do enjoy though - in fact DSs first words were 'whoosh they were gone' and he still laughs like a drain at witch and chips for my tea...
although yesterday DD2 (who's at nursery) 'read' the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe to grandma whilst I was out... the woman swears she was reading it and not reciting from memory, but hmmmm, am going to open a page at random and get her to do the trick again tomorrow as a test...
we loooove Julia Donaldson - those are the books that I buy other people's kids on their birthdays!!

bratnav if it's any help I gave DD rainbow fairies Christmas in yr 1, thinkin gto read them to her, but she read em herself.

She is June b/day too and a pretty good reader.

Can I just say to all of you who slam the series as crap, while I agree it would not be my choice of reading (tho I have just re-read What Katy Did ) I wish my unwilling reader DS1 would read anything as avidly as DD does these.