book banding guide

[imaginaryfriend]

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!

The confidece with the reading will come Being wary of lots of words per page is very normal from what I see.

Hula - did your dd send 2 letters?? We didn't get either. Say thanks to her in any case?

Dd's settled into Y1 much better now, thanks. She'll always be shy but she's enjoying the structure and tasks they are given to do. She's peculiarly mad on spelling!

Hi anmhe! Your dd is doing really well! Dd's books have a kind of dark blue / deep turquoise band on them too. But she's not really at ease with ORT stage 9 yet. Stage 8 is ok.

florence the banana books look good but again I would be confused as to which level to get dd?

I reckon judging from DS the Blue Banana ones would be fine - but I would definitely go to the library as they read them once and that's it.

You know, my library is rubbish for this kind of book, it's all picture books and novels with a few Cat in the Hat books thrown in.

its a problem - because they really do just read the books once. DS was close to the level your daughter was on at the beginning of the summer holidays, so discovering a "fun" reading series was good for enthusing him. Happy families is on the Book People for £10, if that helps!

Thanks florence, hulababy alerted me to that little bargain!

any other morning advisors?

seeker I'm not worried, honestly I'm not! I was just thinking of getting her a few extra readers to have at home. They only bring home one book a week from school and all the ones I choose seem too hard or too easy!

She'd def be fine with Blue Bananas

Thanks hula, I'll get some of those too.

There's a Blue Banana called Three By the Sea that's so good that my dd still asks for it to be read to her when she's poorly or sad and she's 12!

Thanks seeker, I'll look out for it.

IF not sure where you live but, and I am sure I am telling you what you already know, but you can 'order' books through your library. I live in a small village with a small library, however I can go on line and look up a book I want and request it to be sent to my local library. If it is a childrens book this service is free! You might find that you can get these books within your library area but not actually at your library.

It doesn't seem to exist any more seeker. Only a Red Fox Reader with that title.

would second the blue banana's and definately Titchy Witch - ds1 loved these. Our library had them and I think The Book People or Red House had the set of the recently.

I'm in London ANMHE. There are quite a lot of libraries around but our local ones are quite small and although they have a huge selection of picture books they have very few reading books for dd's age.

but in the meantime - what about the book band guide???

Hulababy, thanks for that list of colour bands.
Dd has just finished turquoise and moved onto purple (she is Y1)
I am also on the lookout for suitable books for her, will take dd to school and then read rest of thread

Just a note of caution here; Bookbanding comes from the whole-language reading programme Reading Recovery.

Whole language books are fine ONCE your little ones are actually confident readers but it's absurd to use whole-language books with beginning readers.

They should be given decodable books to enable them to practise their newly taught phonics skills without the need to guess and memorise.

Decodable books cannot be linked into the Bookband scheme.

At dd's school they used a mixture of de-codable (jolly phonics) and other books. This seems to have worked well for most of the children.

IF - dd has had some of the Happy Families books out of our local library. She absolutely loves them and they are the right level for her - so they would be perfect for your dd too.

(It is hippipotami here btw, we have 'spoken' before. Am wearing my halloween dress )

Let's look at the research on the subject:

?The selection of text used very early in first grade may, at least in part, determine the strategies and cues children learn to use, and persist in using, in subsequent word identification.... In particular, emphasis on a phonics method seems to make little sense if children are given initial texts to read where the words do not follow regular letter-sound correspondence generalizations. Results of the current study suggest that the types of words which appear in beginning reading texts may well exert a more powerful influence in shaping children?s word identification strategies than the method of reading instruction?(Juel and Roper/Schneider. Reading Research Quarterly 18)

Whole-language reading books will cause problems for a small but significant number of beginning readers.

Maverick, I agree with you, but this thread is about IF's dd who is very far up the reading band scheme. So whatever scheme her school followed has worked for her. (as indeed it did for my dd)

So whilst I see what you are saying, I don't fully understand the relevance to IF's dd about whom this thread is.