http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.com/pdf/oxed/primary/ort/Bookbandleaflet2010.pdf



http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.com/pdf/oxed/primary/ort/Bookbandleaflet2010.pdf





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Found this - it tells you the book bands and ORT levels for most ORT titles. I'm still totally confused, but it shows you that there is quite some variation between the ORT levels and the colour bands. Turquoise stage varies from ORT level 5 to 9 for example!

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Basically the oxford reading tree levels are decided by oxford reading tree themselves, there are lots of different scheme books available which all use their own levels.

Book bands were developed (I think by the institute of education) to group all of those books together so children don't have to stick with one scheme. There are also 'real books' that have been graded by the book band scheme as well. The idea is that a child would then be able to read a variety of books that are all at a similar level.

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In general I would say the book bands are more accurate, because they've been graded independently. But I think the bands themselves are wider so more than one oxford reading tree level would fit inside a band.

There are some oxford reading tree books that, when sorted according to book bands seem to be grouped with books of a different level. In that case I would say the oxford reading tree people didn't quite level it right in the first place.

Of course, if your school is only using oxford reading tree then the colour bands don't matter that much.

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