Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book. * Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books. * Text type: * Curriculum links:
Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fi...
Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book. * Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books. * Text type: * Curriculum links:
Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fi...
Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book. * Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books. * Text type: * Curriculum links:
Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fi...
Written by Collins Big Cat Writing Competition 2013 winner Grace Webster, this original and funny story follows a baby elephant as he tries to tame his gigantic floppy ears. * Ideas for Reading provide practical support and stimulating activities. * Text type: A patterned story with a predictable structure
Written by Collins Big Cat Writing Competition 2013 winner Grace Webster, this original and funny story follows a baby elephant as he tries to tame hi...
Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book. * Ideas for Reading provide practical support and stimulating activities. * Text type: A poem.
Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fi...
Lime/Band 11 books have longer sentence structures and a greater use of literary language.
Text type a poetry book.
Pages 30 and 31 tie many of the poems together in a reader response page that shows the river s journey to the sea, and can be used as a prompt for speaking and listening activities.
Curriculum links Geography: "Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key physical features, including beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather.""
Poems inspired by the world all around us.
Lime/Band 11 books have longer sentence structures and a greater use of literary language.
Little Red Hen is looking for Granny s house in the big, bad city. Should she trust the smiley stranger who wants to help her?
Turquoise/ Band 7 books offer literary language and extended descriptions, with longer sentences and a wide range of unfamiliar terms.
Text type a traditional tale
The story is followed on pages 22 and 23 by a map of Mr. Fox s whole route, which is a great way to recap and discuss the story with children and gives an opportunity to extend into further work outside the reading session.
Curriculum links: geography: "Pupils should be taught to use simple...
Little Red Hen is looking for Granny s house in the big, bad city. Should she trust the smiley stranger who wants to help her?
One potato is not at all happy about being eaten He leads the farmer s wife on a wild potato chase through the garden, hoping she ll choose another vegetable for her dinner. Will she catch him?
Green/Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters
Text type: a rhyming story
Children can follow the potato through the countryside in the story map on pages 22 and 23."
One potato is not at all happy about being eaten He leads the farmer s wife on a wild potato chase through the garden, hoping she ll choose anothe...
