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book banding guide

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imaginaryfriend · 20/10/2008 14:50

Someone very helpfully directed me to a website which contained a guide to how schools band books according to colour and despite huge googling efforts I can't find it.

It shows concordance between the ORT levels and all the other reading schemes.

TIA!

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imaginaryfriend · 20/10/2008 14:51

Terrible sentence. I mean someone once guided me to the website and I can no longer find it.

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imaginaryfriend · 20/10/2008 15:10

hello!

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imaginaryfriend · 20/10/2008 16:26

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LIZS · 20/10/2008 16:29

iirc it was on a dyslexia site

dramaqueen · 20/10/2008 16:41

IS this it

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imaginaryfriend · 20/10/2008 16:58

Thanks but no that wasn't it. It showed which books were sorted into which colour bands in primary school. So there might be an ORT 3 with a storyworlds 5 all in, say, yellow band.

It was so helpful, I wish I'd saved the link.

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imaginaryfriend · 20/10/2008 20:55

any evening posters with The Knowledge?

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Hulababy · 20/10/2008 20:57

It was on one of the other threads IF; I remember it too. Guess you have tried searching on MN?

Hulababy · 20/10/2008 21:00

It is linked to by ReallyTired towards the end of this thread - I can't get link to work properly, you may be able to

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imaginaryfriend · 20/10/2008 21:02

Thanks Hula, I'll try now.

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Hulababy · 20/10/2008 21:05

Link does work, I just don't seem to be able to link to it on here.

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imaginaryfriend · 20/10/2008 21:06

I found that one, it was helpful with the ORT books but there was another one which linked other books to the book bands.

I'm curious because dd seems to be on 'turquoise' level at school and I wondered which other books at the right level I could introduce her to. I don't even know if turquoise level is right but I thought if I saw a list of titles I could work out if she is on turquoise level.

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castlesintheair · 20/10/2008 21:09

That's interesting. Can someone tell me what National Curriculum Level 2B means?

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imaginaryfriend · 20/10/2008 21:11

Nope, haven't got a clue. Sorry, I'm constantly confused!

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imaginaryfriend · 20/10/2008 21:11

What's happened to mrz???

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Hulababy · 20/10/2008 21:21

I think it used to be here but link no longer works.

Hulababy · 20/10/2008 21:25

IIRR

By end of Y2 most children will be at Level 2. 2B is the norm. 2A is higher than 2C I think.

Obviously some children will not be at this level also. Some will reach it before end of Y2.

castlesintheair · 20/10/2008 21:27

Ah thanks Hulababy, as in the STATS grading.

Hulababy · 20/10/2008 21:30

IF - Is this any use to you? It isn't coloured coded, but it links to NC level (which you can match up from the other list - colour and NC level).

Hulababy · 20/10/2008 21:30

Yes, linked to SATS

ListersSister · 20/10/2008 21:32

This is the ORT within Book Bands if that helps...
ORT book bands

The Grid one Hulababy linked to doesn't exist anymore, but showed Book bands linked to the NC/SATs levels - ie yellow was 1c, Gold was 2a (I am making those up by the way, no idea which colour was which level)

hth

nell12 · 20/10/2008 21:32

this is the one I use at school

nell12 · 20/10/2008 21:40

The book I mentioned has all the different colour codes in it (a different colour for each sub-level or thereabouts)

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imaginaryfriend · 20/10/2008 21:42

That could be good hula but I don't know which level dd is on. I know she's reading stage 8/9 books and I think that's turquoise but I don't know if she's 2, 2a, 2c or any of those things. How can I work it out? I need to see some of the books she's reading on the list to know.

nell, that looks good but I'd like something online to look at.

ListersSister, that ORT list is the one hula linked to.

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imaginaryfriend · 20/10/2008 21:42

Hula, I think the one you tried to link to earlier that no longer works is the one I wanted to find. Dang.

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