Collins Big Cat
3 total works
Imaginative, clever and often humorous, this beautifully illustrated poetry collection by Valerie Bloom is inspired by the strange and wonderful creatures of the natural world.
- Ruby/Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction.
- Text type: A poetry book
- Curriculum links: Citizenship
Poems inspired by the world all around us.
- 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’.
Collins 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.
Christopher Brown loves drawing. When he enters the local art competition he doesn’t realise that his photo research will lead him to becoming a detective and solving the village crimes!
Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts.
Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.