Thread: Oxford Reading Tree

Can anyone translate the bands, colours and levels??

I'm told Alex has been moved up based on recent reading test but on the back of the book it says:

X Book Band 12
Brown

Oxford reading Tree Stage 10
Stage 11

Confused.

We don't have many of the higher ORT books at school, and Mollie's school doesn;t do colour bands or the higher levels either. However I would assume they'd be at the top of the colour bands so probably lime.

But depends on which colour bands you mean. There is no brown in the colour banding scheme we use. We use he standard known sheme.

I just want to know if he's doing OK for his age. At his parents evening I had 10 mins of being talked at and had very little chance for questions apart from saying he seemed to be finding the reading too easy (2 books a night) and what did they think.... so hence a note in his reading book today to say he's moved up. He's done level 10 & lime so now it's 10/11 and brown?? I just don't get how it's structured at all, it might as well be Chinese.

Imogen had free choice from age 6 and so didn't carry on the reading scheme (Ginn) at that school.

How old is he? Year?

We don't have anything above lime at our school, and don't use many scheme books. The school has mainly real books but put into the colour bands. We have children in Y1 on anything from pink (not yet reading) to lime and reading chapter books pretty much fluently.

Mollie's school didn;t do colour bands and tbh once they were reading fairly confidently they moved onto choosing their own books from Y2 (they wouldn;t do it before though).

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but someone on our Facebook page posted this in response to this thread:
http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.com/pdf/o...eaflet2010.pdf

Hope it helps!

That confused me even more! And I'm not surpirsed. Eventually found this

Oxford | Education | Programme Structure

Which explains that the brown book X 'Conflicts' is between 10 & 11 and for year 3 (he's a young year 2) so I'm happy It seems that these 'Project X' books are designed for boys and run alongside the mainsteam reading tree to inject some interesting boy 'stuff'.

He should be on free choice if he's on brown. We don't even go up to brown!

They have re-ordered the levels at our school and I have to follow a strict order of reading for the kids.

Freddo was on free readers by the middle of Yr2.

AL, he has both. Every Friday they pick from the library to read that week but they do this scheme too and he gets a new Oxford book everytime he finishes one, at his own pace, which was 2 a day and is now 1 a day. Needless to say, he does an awful lot of reading!