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O M G there are books other than O R flipping T . If your school is giving easy books then go to the blardy library and get your kid a book they find hard. oR whatever. But schools are not librarys/book shops. There is limited money for books. esp wh...

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charmkin · 23/05/2008 20:53

So stop whining and realise that ORT is not GOD of reading.

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charmkin · 23/05/2008 20:53

sorry for spelling libaries wrong
was mid rant

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cornsilk · 23/05/2008 20:53

amen

BlueDragonfly · 23/05/2008 20:54

i must have missed the thread you are ranting at! but Amen ish

charmkin · 23/05/2008 20:54

and they are so bloody boring anyway. Who wants to hear about Kipper and Chip and Biff ( lol may start a baby names thread with those names...)

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cornsilk · 23/05/2008 20:55

and the magic friggin key (yawn)

SmugColditz · 23/05/2008 20:55

Mehhhh he he he he he he he!

wrinklytum · 23/05/2008 20:55

Sorry {puzzled emoticon} What's ORT (my kids are preschoolers) TIA.

SmugColditz · 23/05/2008 20:55

Give me Dr Seuss any day

PinkChick · 23/05/2008 20:56

..are you refering to my thread..for advice..on what to do...not to hail ort...

avenanap · 23/05/2008 20:56

my ds avoided the ORT. he's not had a reading book from school for 3 years. Because he takes them in from home. They don't have to read books from school.

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WanderingTrolley · 23/05/2008 20:56

I don't know what ORT is.

Can you do a link, charmkin?

Ta.

charmkin · 23/05/2008 20:57

are you taking the piss
LINKS are MY NEMESIS

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PinkChick · 23/05/2008 20:58

i satrted a thread asking for tips on what to do as the reception are giving dd highr level books which are still fairly easy.....guess its wine o'clock eh?

WanderingTrolley · 23/05/2008 20:58

Ho ho.

See m'profile.

charmkin · 23/05/2008 20:58

here goes www.oup.com/oxed/primary/electronicresources/orto/

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charmkin · 23/05/2008 20:59

ffs

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SmugColditz · 23/05/2008 20:59

Oxford Reading Tree

A reading scheme, apparently designed with coma in mind.

I asked my son's reception teacher if they had ORT in reception. She pulled a face and said "No, we use books. a lot of them are old books, but the spelling is still the same and the words still work"

She had a damn good point (even if I do remember my little sister bringing some of the books home 13 years ago!)

BlueDragonfly · 23/05/2008 20:59

sorry bit rofl @ links are my nemesis!

charmkin · 23/05/2008 20:59

ort

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Doobydoo · 23/05/2008 20:59

Haha.Agree...The mAGIC FECKIN kEY,SOOO DIRE.i AM SURE THESE PUT KIDS OFF READING[GRIN]

WanderingTrolley · 23/05/2008 21:00

Now - and you're going to be shocked at this - that didn't work.

Doobydoo · 23/05/2008 21:00

I do apologise for my postIn a rush.

GrimmaTheNome · 23/05/2008 21:00

Now my DD is well past that stage I really miss Floppy the dog. I think he was the only thing that kept her attempting to read in Infants. Her school had several other schemes running concurrently and some of those were sooooo booooring I cant even remember what they are.

Magic Key magazines total waste of time and money though! Save the pennies till they are old enough for the Beano.

ranting · 23/05/2008 21:01

Oh I loathe Buff, Chump and Skipper. Luckily they don't exclusively use ORT in my dds school but why wouldn't you use the library in addition anyway.

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