"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...
Bill longs for someone to talk to. Then one day the door to his room opens and a giant bottom comes in Legs, arms, chest follow as bit by bit, Bill's new giant friend appears. When his friend's last bit finally arrives and he is in one piece, they have plenty to talk about
Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language.
Text type - A traditional story.
A flow chart on pages 14 and 15 shows the different body parts that make up Bill's new friend, giving children the opportunity to recap and retell the...
Bill longs for someone to talk to. Then one day the door to his room opens and a giant bottom comes in Legs, arms, chest follow as bit by bit, Bil...
When a wee mouse meets a big, hungry monster on the road, he needs to think fast. This is a lively retelling of a traditional story by Martin Waddell.
Red / Band 2B - A traditional story
Text type - Fiction
The focus phonemes in this book are sh, er, oa and ng. Other phonemes practised are ou (ground), th (this), th (thin), ee, w, oo (look), ie (lie) and ch.
Children can compare and contrast the two main characters using the character summaries on the final spread.
Martin Waddell also wrote Yellow 3 Horse Up a Tree and Blue 4 The Small Bun."
When a wee mouse meets a big, hungry monster on the road, he needs to think fast. This is a lively retelling of a traditional story by Martin Wadde...
A hungry man and his wife baked a small bun. But as soon as they put it on their plate, the bun jumped up and ran off. This lively version of the traditional story of the gingerbread man is by Martin Waddell.
Blue / Band 4 - A
Text type - Fiction
The focus phoneme in this book is al (small).
Use the storymap on the final spread to discuss the route the small bun took and the characters he met..
Martin Waddell also wrote Red 2b The Mouse and the Monster; Yellow 3 Horse Up a Tree
This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery."
A hungry man and his wife baked a small bun. But as soon as they put it on their plate, the bun jumped up and ran off. This lively version of the t...
