Reading level Colours and Ages.

Below is the colour wheel that we use with the corresponding level and age. At the end of one full year at school children are expected to be at Green level (12). The colour of the readers that your child will receive each night is usually on the back. 

For more information about this National Standard or ways you can help at home please visit  

http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/National-Standards/Supporting-parents-and-whanau/Resources#snapshot_pdfs

Each night your child will bring home a new reader at their instructional level and either a choosing book from their pick boxes that they have read before or a book at the level above. If it is a book at the level above we will write the name of the book in their notebook and in brackets "please read to". 

We would love parents to come in each morning to our classroom and read the book again with your child. We are trying to encourage as much reading mileage as possible, so your help with this would be very much appreciated.

If you have any questions please feel free to come in and ask us!

Colour	Level	Reading Age	Curriculum Level
Magenta 1 and 2	1,2	Pre/5
Red 1	3	5.1
Red 2	4	5.2
Red 3	5	5.3
Yellow 1	6	5.4
Yellow 2	7	5.5
Yellow 3	8	5.6
Blue 1	9	5.7
Blue 2	10	5.8
Blue 3	11	5.9
Green 1	12	5.10	After one year at school, students will read, respond to, and think critically about fiction & non-fiction texts at Green level Reading and Writing Standards for years 1-8
Green 2	13	5.11
Green 3	14	6-6.5
Orange 1-2	15,16	6.5-7
Blue 1-2 Turquoise, Big blue or Light Blue	17,18	7-7.6	After two years at school, students will read, respond to, and think critically about fiction & non-fiction texts at Turquoise level Reading and Writing Standards for years 1-8
Purple