"Collins Big Cat" is a guided reading series for ages 4--7 edited by Cliff Moon. Children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children should love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child
"Collins Big Cat" is a guided reading series for ages 4--7 edited by Cliff Moon. Children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fict...
"Collins Big Cat" is a guided reading series for ages 4--7 edited by Cliff Moon. Children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children should love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child
"Collins Big Cat" is a guided reading series for ages 4--7 edited by Cliff Moon. Children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fict...
This is a non-fiction information book about Kim, who tells us about the location of her school. The book shows the exact whereabouts of Kim's classroom within her school, and then expands to locate her school in her city, country and the world. Illustrations include labelled photographs, simple maps, aerial maps and an image of the Earth.
Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language.
Text type - An information book
Pages 14 and 15 include an index, and a visual reminder of Kim's location from her classroom school city country Earth, which can be...
This is a non-fiction information book about Kim, who tells us about the location of her school. The book shows the exact whereabouts of Kim's clas...
It was Pirate Captain Codspawn s birthday. But what was his birthday surprise? It wasn t the beetles in the butter. It wasn t the spiders in the sugar. And it wasn t the special pirate pie that Cook had baked. But it was the best present a pirate could ever want
Gold/Band 9 fiction books offer developing readers literary language and stories with distinctive characters.
Text type - A humorous story.
Pages 22 and 23 feature a recipe for pirate pie, with ingredients that would test the stomachs of even the most bloodthirsty pirates. This is a great starting point for further...
It was Pirate Captain Codspawn s birthday. But what was his birthday surprise? It wasn t the beetles in the butter. It wasn t the spiders in the su...
'Collins Big Cat' is a guided reading programme for ages 4-7 edited by Cliff Moon. Children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children should love to read, bookbanded to help teachers choose the right book for
'Collins Big Cat' is a guided reading programme for ages 4-7 edited by Cliff Moon. Children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fi...
The colourful photographs in this non-fiction recount demonstrates different ways of pushing and pulling through photographs taken in a children's playground, using swings, roundabouts and climbing frames and simple captions.
- Pink A/Band 1A books offer emergent readers very simple text supported by illustrations.
- Text type - A simple non-fiction recount.
- The photographs are repeated on pages 14 and 15 under the headings pushing and pulling providing an oppportunity to recap and discuss the information in the book.
The colourful photographs in this non-fiction recount demonstrates different ways of pushing and pulling through photographs taken in a children's ...
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.
- Orange/ Band 6 books offer varied text and characters, with action sustained over several pages.
- Text type - An information text.
- A wordless flow-chart on pages 22 and 23 summarises the process and helps children remember the sequence of...
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...
"Collins Big Cat" is a guided reading series for ages 4--7 edited by Cliff Moon. Children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children should love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child
"Collins Big Cat" is a guided reading series for ages 4--7 edited by Cliff Moon. Children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fict...
'Collins Big Cat' is a guided reading series for ages 4--7 edited by Cliff Moon. Children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children should love to read, banded to help teachers choose the right book for every
'Collins Big Cat' is a guided reading series for ages 4--7 edited by Cliff Moon. Children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fict...
Would you like to find out who inspired the famous children s book character, Percy the Park Keeper? The author and illustrator who created him, Nick Butterworth, invites us into his home to show us how he works, from the first spark of an idea to the published book.
Green/ Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters.
Text type - A non-fiction recount.
Pages 14-15 show three stages of Nick drafting an illustration of Percy, ideal for exploring ideas, preparation and editing/planning within children s own work.
Curriculum links - Art and design:...
Would you like to find out who inspired the famous children s book character, Percy the Park Keeper? The author and illustrator who created him, Ni...
