book bands

[juliemacc]

Does anyone know where black banded books fit into the primary reading colours ie pink, red, yellow, blue...etc? DD2 (yr1)brought home 2 black books and was a bit surprised as i dont remember DC1 having these till juniors.

The school I work at used the book bands set nationally, and as far as I am aware there is no black band.

Must be the schools own system perhaps?

lilac
pink
red
yellow
blue
green
orange
turquoise
purple
gold
white
lime green

No black there.

I have an old Cliff Moon Book banding guide from 2003 so it may have changed since then. Or your school may be using a simplified version of it. Black is Stage 9 is this book and is working within National Curriculum Level 2.

Could I just ask Hula - what reading age is the green level please?

I don't think the levels have reading ages attached to them. At this stage of reading it varies so much. Some reception children can read green level whilst others don't reach green until the end of Y2, and maybe beyond.

I work in a Y1 class and we have some children on green, and moving onto orange, and sme who are still on lilac/pink.

In theory lime is followed by ruby and sapphire!, we have black followed by spotty as we didn't have any ruby stickers!

the KS2 book bands which follow lime are red & blue (could be called ruby and sapphire to distinguish from KS1 perhaps?) but there isn't a black banding in either system.

Cliff Moon bands are

yellow Reading age 5-5.11
white 5 - 5.11
dark blue 5.6 - 6.11
pink 6.6 - 7.5
brown 6.6 - 7.5
green 7 - 7.11
grey 7 - 7.11
orange 8 - 10

My son's school uses 'black' band instead of lilac. I think because they didn't have the right coloured stickers. They use the standard coloured bands for the rest (well, do to blue with a dot in the middle for turquoise but they call them the standard colour names!).

Maybe your school used black for the same reason (very doubtful that it was instead of lilac though!)?

What band was she on last?

The big cat book bands beyond lime (band 11) are:

band 12 - copper
band 13 - topaz
band 14 - ruby
band 15 - emerald
band 16 - sapphire
band 17 - diamond

so, again, no black there.

I would suspect that Reup has hit the name on the head there (must read the whole thread before replying next time!). Stage 9/ NC level 2 sounds the most plausible for a yr 1 child (an above average reader yr 1 child, of course!).

Anyone else confused?

mrz my Cliff moon book is old and has other colours. They are linked to NC levels not ages, from the bottom its

stage 0 red
stage 1 yellow
stage 2 white
stage 3 dark blue
stage 4 pink
stage 5 brown
stage 6 green
stage 7 grey
stage 8 orange
stage 9 black
stage 10 beige
stage 11 dark pink
stage 12 pale blue

But its from 2003 so could have been changed a lot.

unless it's free readers?
at my school black stickers were on books for free readers.

Co-incidently my sons school has just levelled their reading books. They only have ORT books though. I wish they had done the whole lot. Anyway he has brought back a brown book which is on mrz lists but not the others. According to my Cliff Monn book the ORt Stage 10 treetops book he has is beige not brown.

I had a quick google and there seems to be Cliff Moon Levels and then something called PM book banding which lots of publishers now use.

PM was the original book banding scheme
Magenta
Red
Yellow
Blue
Green
Orange
Turquoise
Purple
Gold
Silver
Emerald
Ruby
S apphire

still no black

I will check at school tomorrow. They range from 1c-level 4's.

and no brown so my sons school must be using your Cliff Moon.

Many reading schemes used their own colours so older books may have different colours from those used now.