Ginn readers level 8: - ORT equivalent, anyone?

[faraday]

DS2's teacher told me DS2 needs to read, read, read over the next few weeks- for some reason though infants were big on ORT, juniors 'do' Ginn not ORT, amongst other random books. I know that at a certain level ORT branch out into more non-fiction etc so I wanted to ask what level I should be finding for him.

He's a slightly under-achieving 7 turning 8 yr old in Y3.

DD brings home Ginn level 8 and ORT level 10 books - they seem to be similar in difficulty. She has enjoyed the ORT 'treetops' books as the stories are written by different authors and are a bit more entertaining.

Her school has recently started using a book grading system so that the children are given a variety of reading matter, not just a single reading scheme.

Is this the Ginn 360? Ginn Pocket Books? etc.

Level 8, according to this link, is aimed at a reading age of 8.6y-9.5y, which would seem to be tie in with approx stage 11+ of ORT.

Having seen the Ginn books when DD read them I would say though that the language used, the range of vocab and the required comprehension is actually higher than stage 11 ORT.

Ginn 360 Level 8 = ORT Stage 11, according to Book Banding.

Yes, these are Ginn 360

Many thanks everyone

I thought the Treetops books were level 11, not 9?