For those that wanted the coloured book bandings levels

[rosieroseanna]

I saw a while back some of you were wondering what the colours equated to in levels so I remembered to bring home my books levels info. Children are given the colour for the level they are working towards. Hope this is helpful!

Pink - level 1
Red - level 1
Yellow - 1c
Blue - 1b
Green - 1a
Orange - 1a
Turqouise - 2c
Purple - 2b
Gold - 2a
White - 3c
Lime - 3b
Grey - 3a
Burgundy - 4c
Sapphire - 4b
Brown 4a
Black - 5+

Builde - had you just done it in your head until then?

I got to reception and had learned to internalise - as a result I got into quite a bit of trouble as I would stumble if I tried to read out loud so the teacher said I couldn't have read the book and put me back near the start. I am sure I couldn't read out loud because my eyes and mind were going too fast for my speach to be able to keep up ...

Im completely confused-doesn't take much lol!
What does the level 1,1a,1b etc mean? DS is in reception and on blue banded books (in his class it goes pink,red,blue) but his teacher has now given him an ort book called Go Kart which according to the list that Noah gave he is on Yellow Band...yet the book has got a blue band on it at school!

All very confusing!! DS's school seem to have loads and loads of different books from different reading schemes as so far we've had Rigby Star,some old Spirals books,Ginn and some Collins Big Cat ones so I actually didn't think they even had any ORT ones until today but obviously they do! Is it better to work with just one scheme or to move around and do lots of different ones?

1c, 1b, 1a are how level one are divided up, with 1c being just about there, 1b mostly there, 1a very securely there. Book bands can be applied to all schemes, personally I prefer having several to chose from, some children like a mix, others work better with different schemes.

With book bands you have more flexibility. Some teachers prefer working through one scheme as each book/level builds on the one before (with more vocab, longer sentences etc), others find it a bit restrictive or boring. Book bands do also have a progression, just not as set as with a reading scheme.

hi the above book colour bands are not right cus my daughter is in year 2 and reading treetop stage 13 black and i was told yesterday that she's level 3, i was very suprise cus i thought she will be on level 4 she's also a free reader, there's somthing right.

why do school teachers not give this information out readily, so that parents can have a better understanding and help there children instead of worrying , at least then there would be less pressure to keep up with the unknown and more help in the right direction!

Am I being dim (probably) but how do these levels equate to what class a child is in? IE; What level/colour should Y1, Y2, Y3 etc be reaching?

my 4 yr old Grandson is now on purple level. he started school last september, we are so very proud of his reading ability.

It's not given out readily, precisely because parents worry too much about it!
We keep saying it is not a race, but so many want books changed every single day, when actually 2 or 3 reads is a good idea. And the longer , more wordy books or chapter books, definitely shouldn't be read in one sitting.

zombie!