Reading Year 1.

[ElliesMad]

Hi
DD said to the TA this morning could she change her book. TA laughed (nervously?!) and came to me and said they didn't really have anymore books to move her on to at that level. She said they didn't want to move her onto Blue Bananas (what are they anyway?) as she would end up bored next year. She said to get her to read anything and work on comprehension instead of reading, ask her questions etc about the book.
Now we do this anyway and she reads a really wide variety of books but...dd wants the school books, knows that she reads them for school etc.
I'm not sure where to go with this, if we leave it she'll be bored now, if we don't she'll be bored next year? Surely she shouldn't be held back?
Any experiences of this?
She's on ORT, stage 9. Last book today?
Thanks if you read all that!

Why not just buy the ORT Level 10 books and start reading them with her at home? And put a note in her reading log to this effect?

DS is in year one and reading level ten ORT.

How good is your local library?

The following list is quite useful:
www.cumbria.gov.uk/childrensservices/reading/books/search.asp?mode=Search

You can search based on the kind of books your child is bringing home and it gives you a reading level. You can then search on that level (and those around it, they're quite narrow) for other suitable titles.

I use this to then order in books to the local library, which in our borough is free to do on a child's card. I pick the non-scheme ones where I can, as I find any scheme can be a bit formulaic.

The library also have a specific section for emergent readers, which I look through for stuff and also let him choose from.

DS likes the "I can read it all by myself Beginner books" which include all the Dr Seuss titles. This week we have "The King, the Mice and the cheese" and "Bear Scouts" (Berenstain bears). They are probably "easier" than his reading level, but it's all about creating joy as well as progress, right?

There are lots of good books she could be reading - raindow faires (lacks plot but good for little dds) etc rather than readinf scheme books also try and include some non-fiction.

Just a word of warning though I have some fab year 1 readers in my class and the problem is suitable content

Hi

My dd is in Year 1 and has come home with the following Easter reading list:

Dick King Smith
The Hodgeheg
sophie (series)
Blessu & Dumpling

Roald Dahl
The Magic Finger
The Griaffe, the Pelly and me
Matilda

Lynne Reid Banks
Harry the poisonous Centipede

Allan Alhberg
It was a dak and stormy night

Anne Fine
Care of Henry
Bill's new frock

John Foster
Poetry paint box anthologies

Jill Tomilson
The Cat who got the cream

maybe there are some ideas there. My dd is reading Ginn level 9 but the list is for the whole class and the lowest level is yellow New Way about ORT level 10(hard to gauge as do not do Ort mainly Ginn, New way, Ladybird Puddle Lane and Happy Venture readers).

my dd is the same, she hardly bothers with school books now

she reads her own books or librry books, I still list them in her reading diary and her teacher is happy with that

she is Yr 1 also