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New Levels! Copper/Topaz/Ruby/Emerald/Saphire & Diamond GO!
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 teaching notes are included at the back of each book.
The series consists of 200+ book-banded fiction and non-fiction readers, a Teacher’s Guide for each year, interactive CD-ROMs, a Resource and Records Manager and Big Books for Reception and Year 1.
Key Features and Benefits of Collins Big Cat:
- Top children’s authors writing exciting stories will ensure that your class loves reading
- Every book features motivating illustrations and photographs that encourage speaking and listening skills
- Comprehensive notes in the back of each reader make classroom management easy
- Book-banding allows easy integration with existing resources
- Includes interactive ICT resources to add an extra dimension to your literacy lesson
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What is Collins Big Cat?
Collins Big Cat provides a fresh approach to guided reading for KS1 & 2 /P1-7. With fantastic fiction and non-fiction books created by some of the most popular children's authors and illustrators these are books that your pupils will love to read. Combined with the curriculum support that you need, Collins Big Cat will ensure that both you, and your class, love reading.
Why will you love Collins Big Cat?
Highly-acclaimed authors
With award-winning authors such as Michael Morpurgo (Children's Laureate, Smarties Prize Winner), Martin Waddell (Hans Christian Andersen Award, Smarties Prize Winner) and Julia Donaldson (author of The Gruffalo, Smarties Prize Winner), plus acknowledged children''s reading expert Cliff Moon as series editor, you can be sure that Collins Big Cat will provide a rich and exciting reading experience for your pupils.
Stimulating illustrations
Collins Big Cat's great illustrations and strong storylines provide lots of speaking and listening opportunities for you and your class, supporting a more engaging guided reading session.
This example from the pink level book The Guinea Pigs demonstrates the highly visual content and shows how class discussion can be encouraged through the stories and their illustrations. |
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Teacher notes
Every reader includes comprehensive teacher notes at the back of the book to make classroom management easy for you. A separate Assessment and Resource Guide provides comprehensive support on assessment, tracking and planning. Collins Big Cat is also fully matched to the Scottish 5-14 Guidelines.
What else should you know?
- Easy to integrate: Every Collins Big Cat book is bookbanded so that you can easily integrate it alongside your existing resources
- Delivers all your curriculum needs: Collins Big Cat provides you with full curriculum support and includes in-built cross-curricular links
- Interactive ICT: Exciting, interactive ICT resources let you bring a new dimension to your literacy session
- Fiction/non-fiction split: An equal balance of fiction and non-fiction ensures that your class are exposed to the full breadth of reading. Links between fiction and non-fiction titles allow easy comparison genres and encourage reluctant fiction readers.
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Red and yellow make orange, blue and yellow make green, but what do three bears and three pots of paint make? A mess! This is a delightful book on colour, illustrated by Smarties Book Award winner Liz Pichon.
Pages 14-15 provide a summary of the different colour mixes, to consolidate understanding of the book.
Pink B/Band 1B books offer emergent readers simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actions. |
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An old man tugs on a giant turnip, and cannot move it at all. With help from the old lady, the boy and girl, and a whole host of other characters, will he able to pull it out of the ground? This is a beautifully illustrated wordless version of a traditional tale.
Pages 14-15 provide an illustrated storyboard that consolidates understanding of the story, and providing a wealth of speaking and listening opportunities.
Lilac/Band 0 books are books that tell stories or give information through pictures and are designed to develop understanding about how stories and information books work. |
Collins Big Cat Phonics |
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| Phonics can be easy to teach and fun to learn with the new Collins Big Cat programme! Featuring a whiteboard CD-ROM & Handbook developed by synthetic phonics expert, Kay Hiatt and 24 decodable readers from top children's authors, Collins Big Cat provides everything you need to teach exciting phonics in a fun, interactive way. (Available September 2006) |
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New decodable books from top children's authors: For age 4+
- 24 decodable books from top children's authors including Martin Waddell, Emma Chichester-Clark and Malachy Doyle
- 50% fiction and 50% non-fiction split ensures that your pupils are reading a wide range of texts
- Can be used alongside your existing phonics programme to give your pupils more opportunities to practice decoding
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Teach phonics in just 10 minutes a day!
Interactive ICT and Handbook
- Daily 10 minute sessions are fast, fun and easy to slot into your lesson
- Engaging interactive whiteboard activities build children's fluency in hearing, saying, reading and writing all 42 phonemes
- Provides all the support you need to teach phonics first, fast and systematically
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Collins Big Cat Stowaway!
Band 14 Ruby
Dickon has no idea what will happen when he stows away on Sir Francis Drake’s ship. All he wants to do is earn some gold for his family. Little does he know that he is about to be part of a history-making voyage – aboard the Golden Hind. A gripping adventure story from Julia Jarman.
Ruby - Book Band 14. Books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction. (6 titles) |
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Collins Big Cat The Games Player of Zob
Band 15 Emerald
When the Game Player of Zob pays a visit to earth and challenges the earthling children to a game, the children soon find out that the alien is a very bad loser – and that isn’t good news for them... A funny science-fiction story from Paul Shipton.
Emerald - Book Band 15. Books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts. (6 titles) |
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Collins Big Cat; Great Greek Myths
Band 16 Sapphire
Heroes and monsters; gods and goddesses; adventure and excitement: all are to be found in this book, which contains four well-known myths and legends from Ancient Greece told in an accessible style. Find out how Theseus killed the minotaur, how Daedelus escaped from the maze and why Herakles longed for a rest!
Sapphire - Book Band 16. Books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically. (6 titles)
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Collins Big Cat; Fearless Flynn
Band 17 Diamond
Three spooky tales from three peerless storytellers, perfect for telling around the fire on a dark, windy night. Read of Flynn, who battled with three skeletons; of Tom, who saw something so weird in the moonlight that it changed his life forever; and of the terrifying thirteen crows who brought death wherever they went ...
Diamond - Book Band 17. Books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view. (6 titles)
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