any year one teachers around?

Just been trying to think back to when I had Y1. We didn't use ORT much but did have them as a choice for the children. I seem to think the average/ top average child in the class would have been able to manage the yellow books which started to talk about the magic key. Am pretty sure that's stage 6.

HTH

I have taught reception, year one and year two in the past and 'average' children tended to reach stage 6 (the orange ones?) by the end of year one/beginning of year two. Obvioulsy lots of exceptions to that but that was fairly typical.

HTH

I hated ORT when my son had them at nursery. Bloody Biff & Chip. He's reading the Storyworlds books at the moment, he's on stage 7 which google tells me is age 6-7 (so year 2?). If they're equivalent to ORT levels then level 6 sounds like year one.

BTW I'm not a teacher so probably talking rubbish.