I do not understand the Reading stages. How do the children progress?
Children reading at NC level 1c may be reading ORT books Stage 3 but also from Rigby Star or other schemes. We no longer follow 'stages' as seen on the back cover of books, because each scheme has its own stages and a child may move up or down stages from Stage 3 to 1, then to 2, then back to 1 again but would still be assessed by the teacher as a 1c because all of the books read fall into that levelled 'band'.