ORT Stage 9

[ElliesMad]

DD is on Stage 9 ORT. No problems. She came home today with a Jackdaw one and omg the difference! From 6 lines a page to 10-20!
I didn't realise there was such a difference within the same level IYSWIM?

Yes, the levels between the ORT type of books can be very different, as can levels of different schemes.

Did yur DD still find it manageable?

We read to page 8, then had a break and she read on to page 13. She managed ok, but didn't read all the book as she normally would. But it was so much longer!
I was just surprised at how much more there was to it even though it's the same stage.

is Jackdaws still ORT, like songbirds at an earlier level (can you tell we don't have a scheme at our school).
I found the change from school readers to chapter books massive, but it only took a couple of months, if that, till he was reading them on his own.

TBH as the books get longer and more difficult nobody is going to be expecting your DD to read the whole book in one evening. Just do a few pages each night, or until she has had enough

By stage 9 they shouldn't be having to read the whole book anyway. DD rarely brings books home that we do in one go these days. We spend 10 mins approx on reading books, then she moves onto her own, more interesting and exciting books.

Our school recommends the child readig 6-8 pages a night of the school reading book, and then moving on to their own books if they want to read more.

It's ok, I wasn't expecting her to read it all. But she does like to know how a story ends!
So does the ORT work with levels within stages? I hadn't realised this before.
I should go at look at the site really, shouldn't I!
Thanks for all your input.

dd2's reading books seem to be all over the place. She's had "The Blue Eye" which was level 9,then "Flood!" (Level 8 I think) then "Rescue" (level 9 too I think), and today she's brought home a level 5 book! I assume that she's picked the wrong level up this time....

the non fiction ones FIREFLIES are an entirely different entity IMO

Our dd's school have just reorganised all of their reading scheme books into 'bands' rather than the ORT for this very reason.

DS2 is on these. It can take us several days to read one.

He read 4pp to me tonight.

I like it actually, better than crashing thru a book all at once - more like a real grown-up way of reading IYSWIM.

We've also had level 9 books - my ds is in Y1 - but he's reading a set of stage 7 books at the moment - he seems to pick up whatever catches his eye in anything between stage 6 and 9 which I guess is good - and they do vary within stages at this level as well as between levels.

Our school has re-organised all its reading scheme books based on National Curriculum Book Bands (standardised levels, across various different schemes). When we got to the higher levels of ORT, we found that they were placed in lots of different book bands - so there were books from about three levels in one band - and conversely, you could go up a couple of bands and still be on the same ORT level.

In other words, someone, somewhere has also decided that the ORT levels contain a ridiculously wide range of difficulty.

The idea of these books is to build up reading stamina in children. The level of difficulty is around the same there is just more to read IYSWIM - this helps them transfer onto reading their own choice of books better that at this level of difficulty can be chapter books and not necessarily finishable in one sitting.