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Collins Big Cat — I HAVE A DREAM: Band 17/Diamond (PDF)
by Levi David Addai Qi Debrah Collins Big Cat StaffMore interested in computer games than he is in school, Raheem is tired of being told off by his mum for fooling around in class. He just can't understand what the big deal is with learning, or why he should care about Martin Luther King. But that all changes when Raheem falls asleep and wakes up in 1963 . . . * Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view. * Text type: A playscript * Curriculum links: History, Citizenship
Collins Big Cat — IF I WERE INVISIBLE: (PDF)
by Kimberly Redway Illustrated by Markia Jenai Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatAaron thinks he wants to be invisible and is down all the time. Will Dad’s wellness adventure help him to open up about his feelings? 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. Pages 78 and 79 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
Collins Big Cat — IMAGINE A GARDEN: (PDF)
by Poppy O'Neill Illustrated by Linh Nguyen Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatImagine a peaceful garden, full of wonderful things to discover. This book introduces you to the history of meditation, before taking you through a relaxing guided meditation in a beautiful garden. Poppy O’Neill wanted to create a book that captured some of the calm, mindful experience of a guided meditation. She visited a beautiful park called Bishop's Palace Gardens for inspiration, taking lots of notes and smelling all the flowers. White Plus/Band 10+ books provide challenging plots and vocabulary as well as opportunities to practise inference, prediction and reading stamina. Pages 46 and 47 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
Collins Big Cat — IS THERE LIFE ON MARS?: Band 11+/Lime Plus (PDF)
by Inbali Iserles Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available.
Collins Big Cat — LIFE IN EXTREMES: Band 10+/White Plus (PDF)
by Danny Pearson Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available. What is it like to live in the hottest and coldest places on Earth? Discover how different communities survive in some of the world’s most extreme climates.
Collins Big Cat — Mae and Marco's Space Journey: Band 12/Copper
by Jim Al-Khalili and Raquel Pereira Crespo Illustrated by Moreno Chiacchiera Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available. Join astronauts Mae and Marco, as they build a rocket, work out how to escape Earth’s gravity and journey into space. Learn lots of fascinating facts about space as they visit the International Space Station and walk on the Moon. Copper/Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer chapters that develop reading stamina.
Collins Big Cat — Mairi's Motorbike: Band 16/Sapphire
by Lynne Rickards Illustrated by Eugene Smith Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available. Mairi Chisholm was a Scottish motorbike rider who volunteered for the Women’s Emergency Corps during the First World War. Discover how she became one of the famous “Angels of Pervyse”. Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically. Text type: A biography Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
Collins Big Cat — Marvellous Mina: Band 13/Topaz
by Joanna Nadin Illustrated by Lesley Danson Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available. Mina May Malek wants nothing more than to become a BMX champ like her brother Ayman. The trouble is, she’s been ill her parents won’t let her, so there’s only one way to do it … in disguise! Topaz/Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate. Text type: A contemporary story Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
Collins Big Cat — MEET YOUR BRAIN: (PDF)
by Kathryn Kendall Boucher Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatYour brain is amazing! Find out how it affects everything that we do, even how we feel. Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts. Pages 46 and 47 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
Collins Big Cat — Migration Mysteries: Band 11+/Lime Plus
by Inbali Iserles Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available. Have you ever watched as thousands of birds flew across the sky above you? Ever wondered where they were going, or why they were travelling together? Explore the amazing journey of birds as they migrate around the world and discover why they undertake such incredible journeys. White Plus/Band 10+ books provide challenging plots and vocabulary as well as opportunities to practise inference, prediction and reading stamina. Pages 46 and 47 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
Collins Big Cat — MONSTER RANCH: PAWS OF DOOM: Band 13/Topaz
by Sarah Allen Illustrated by Ash Roy Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available. Topaz/Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate. A monster is loose and Gabby Amelia Penrose, Expert Monster Wrangler, is on the case! Can Gabby get this monster back where it belongs?
Collins Big Cat — Moon Base Beta: Band 14/Ruby
by Ciaran Murtagh Illustrated by Kevin Hopgood Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available. Brian Claxon is blasting off to Moon Base Beta. Armed only with an intergalactic space mop, it’s his job to keep the space station tidy while the real astronauts do the important work. However, when there’s an emergency with the oxygen supply and all the astronauts are left unconscious, it’s time for Brian to prove his worth. Ruby/Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction. A reader response page provides lots of opportunities for speaking and listening and scaffolding writing. Text type: A science fiction story Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities
Collins Big Cat — MY NAME IS MIYA: (PDF)
by Mio Debnam Illustrated by Millie Liu Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatMiya is looking forward to the new year – she has great friends and exciting things planned … But things change both at home, where her beloved gran starts to lose her memory, and at school, when a new girl joins, which throws her into a whirlwind of uncertainty. Can her love for art, family and her friends help her? 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. Pages 78 and 79 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
Collins Big Cat — The Mysterious Museum: Band 16/Sapphire
by Aisha Bushby Illustrated by Warwick Johnson Cadwell Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available. Fatima thinks the stories about the weird and wonderful Mysterious Museum are all nonsense – exhibits don’t come to life! But then her best friend Florence disappears inside the museum and Fatima must follow the riddles to find her, even if it means risking her own life … Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically. Text type: An adventure story Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
Collins Big Cat — Nature Fights Back: Band 18/Pearl
by Simon Chapman Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available. Learn all about rewilding and how nature fights back even when it appears to have been wiped out. Discover how farmland grows back into forest, deserted cities turn into wilderness, and life appears on volcanoes which erupt from the sea. 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: An information book Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities
Collins Big Cat — NO HORN UNICORN: Band 10/White
by Shani Dhanda Illustrated by Letizia Rizzo Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available. There's something different about Ugo the unicorn. All the other unicorns in Wildberry Forest have long, white horns, but not Ugo. Can Ugo show his friends that not every unicorn needs a horn? White/Band 10 books have more complex sentences and figurative language.
Collins Big Cat — Pudding Lane: Band 16/Sapphire
by David MacPhail Illustrated by Oliver Averill Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available. September 1666. Grace and her brother Simon are on their way to London to claim their inheritance. As a great fire breaks out, Simon is kidnapped. Can Grace rescue her brother and escape the flames? Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically. Text type: A story with a historical setting Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
Collins Big Cat — RUBY HASTINGS WRITES HER OWN STORY: Band 16/Sapphire
by Rachel Charlton-Dailey Illustrated by Betsy Falco Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available. Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically. Ruby Hastings dreams of being a journalist when she's older, just like her idol Susie Starling. However, Ruby thinks she can't do this due to being dyspraxic. Will what people think of her condition stop her?
Collins Big Cat — The Sauce That Went Bang!: Band 12/Copper
by Abie Longstaff Illustrated by Diego Funck Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available. Ever wished vegetables tasted of burgers and chips instead of vegetables? Join Josh and Zena to see their grand plan to revolutionise the taste of food! But will it work? Can you have too much success? Copper/Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer chapters that develop reading stamina. Text type: A humorous story Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities
Collins Big Cat — Scared of a Rainbow: Band 13/Topaz
by Anne Fine Illustrated by Mia Powell Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available. When sisters Tasha and Ellie hear a noise in a bush, they don’t expect to find a furious bogo hiding from a rainbow. Will they be able to rescue the strange creature – and does it even want to be helped? Topaz/Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate. Text type: A humorous story Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
Collins Big Cat — The Secrets of Easter Island: Band 11+/Lime Plus
by Rob Alcraft Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available. On a tiny island, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, stand hundreds of giant stone statues. Made long ago, they hold the secrets of a lost people. Why and how were these massive statues made? What did they mean? This is the mystery of Easter Island, and a story of the past that we are still trying to unravel. Lime Plus/Band 11+ books provide challenging plots and vocabulary as well as opportunities to practise inference, prediction and reading stamina. Pages 46 and 47 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities. Rob has always wondered at the mystery and power of the giant stone statues on far-away Easter Island. They look like they know things that we don't – though we are slowly discovering more about their secrets, and about the people who made them. It's a fascinating story, and it's still unfolding. There are still secrets to discover, and much that is yet to be told.
Collins Big Cat — Six Queens, One King: The Extraordinary Reign of Henry VIII: Band 15/Emerald
by Kay Barnham Illustrated by Georgio Bacchin Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available. Henry VIII is famous for having six wives. But why did the Tudor king marry so many times? Who were his wives? And what happened to them …? Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts. Text type – A biography Curriculum links – History
Collins Big Cat — Stories in the Star: Band 10+/White Plus
by Anita Ganeri Illustrated by Linh Nguyen Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available. Have you ever looked up at the sky and wondered how amazing the Moon and stars look? Have you wondered how far away they are? For thousands of years, people all over the world have looked up at the sky and told fascinating stories to explain how the Sun, Moon and stars came to be. White Plus/Band 10+ books provide challenging plots and vocabulary as well as opportunities to practise inference, prediction and reading stamina. Pages 46 and 47 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities. Anita has always been fascinated by the stars. As a child, she remembers visiting the London Planetarium, and being completely transfixed. She also loves reading stories about how people long ago found ways of understanding how the world worked, before science offered explanations. Being able to combine these two was a treat!
Collins Big Cat — The Story of Us: Band 18/Pearl
by Michael Haralambos Wendy Hope and Natural History Museum Prepared for publication by Collins Big CatCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available. A fascinating history of humankind. Discover how we evolved from ape-like beings to the modern humans we are today. 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: An information book Curriculum links: History and Science Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.