colour coded reading levels - yr 1

[AtheneNoctua]

DD is in year 1 and is very happy with herself for moving up to the grey level. So of course I congratulated her but what does this actually mean? Is there soem info on the internet which tells me what grey means?

schools grade their reading books by colour boxes - could mean anything, depending on the school

what's the level on the back of the book?

Don't know. Will have to check when I'm home. There is a grey sticker on the binding. I figured it was in line with some national system. But maybe not.

there is.
but I can't find it...

Depends what reading scheme they use .... Oxford Reading Tree ? or similar ?

Our school uses lots of different books from different schemes and then give them their own number or colour depending on the class. I'd just go with congratulating her and not worry too much where she sits nationally so long as she is enthusiastic and progressing it is a good thing.

nope, there is a national colour coded thing. There is, or used to be, a book with the appropriate (apparently!) level for hundreds/thousands? of books.

Yeah, I know. She's probably fine. But, I'd hate to find out later I should have done something more to help her a long and didn't think of it. I'm quite happy if she is bang on average. But if she is below I'll have to focus on some more ont-to-one reading time with her.

Agh, someone linked to the national scheme just a week or so ago on here, but can I find it? No ...

I really really wouldn't worry at yr 1.
The is such a range of ability - some who can't read, some who can decode a bit and some who just read.
In a couple of years time the vast majority will all be reading.

I think enjoying books, those which she reads and that you read to her, is much more important.

There is a national colour coded scheme, but as far as I am aware grey does not feature in it...
I think it goes as follows:
pink
red
yellow
blue
green
orange
turquoise
purple
gold
white
lime green

These are the standard colours, I think. There doesn't seem to be grey on it:
www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/primary_strategy/inclusion/wave3/documents/ks_1-2_levels_bk_ bnds.doc

If you look here, ORT seem to follow that scheme:
fds.oup.com/www.oup.com/pdf/oxed/primary/ortbookbands.pdf

My son has green stickers on his stuff from school and has done for some time. This green seems to cover a load of different ORT (and therefore general book band?) colours, so I would guess it is school specific.

It sounds like yours probably is too.

Could it be silver level from this list??
"Herewww.kaleidoscopesets.com/downloads/IndividualRead.pdf"

Cliff Moon individualised reading has a grey band - it is the one after green, I think, and before black. DS1 had these in his first school.

Oh, she was on green. So CLiff Moon must be the one. Thanks.

Incidentally, I'm not worried, just educating myself here so I understand where she is. I think I will find that she is fine.

In fact, I think the school does the whole reading thing very well. I'm more concerned about a lack of attention to math and science, but that's another thread.

MA off to check out Cliff Moon.

our school has books from lots of different schemes grouped under this sequence :
pink
red
yellow
blue
green
orange
turquoise
purple
gold
white
lime green

but the teachers aren't sure what to call the last few ! A discussion with my boys teacher yesterday we agreed the yellowish colour (gold) is going to be called the one after purple (so we both know which one we mean !) and the white is called cream (confusion reigned for all concerned ).

oops - wrong thread !!

Hi there

My LO was on ORT before becoming a free reader and has brought home some grey banded books. I was wondering about the grey band as it is not on any of the lists I have seen.

Not too worried ab out it though.

We had to use grey stickers as gold ones were hard to find! The lime green stickers looked like the green ones and the wrong children kept taking the wrong books ( you can imagine the look on some parents faces when their child brought home a book 6 levels higher or lower than they should have been on) and so I spent hours drawing spots on the lime green books to differentiate them!

Wonder why Bookbands have 2 shades of green but don't have brown , grey of black ,it would have saved primarymum (and many others, I'm sure) a job