Collins Big Cat
5 total works
- Lime/Band 11 books have longer sentence structures and a greater use of literary language.
- Text type – A non-chronological report.
- Pages 30 and 31 feature a persuasive text in a poster format compelling us to act now to save the cloud forest. This provides lots of speaking, listening and writing opportunities.
- Curriculum links – Science: Plants and animals, Variation; Geography: Passport to the world.
- This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
Is There Anyone Out There? investigates whether there is life beyond planet Earth. The non-chronological report examines what we already know about the Solar System and the possibility of life on other planets. It also offers ideas of what aliens in certain sorts of environments might look like.
- White/Band 10 books have more complex sentences and figurative language.
- Text type – A non-chronological report.
- Pages 30 and 31 contain a table of conditions needed to sustain life to encourage children to recap the information.
- Curriculum links – Art and design: Mother Nature designer; Science: Forces and movement, Plants and animals, Variation.
- Leading science and wildlife author and photographer Nic Bishop has contributed three other titles to Collins Big Cat – Look Out Butterfly!, Fantastic Flying Squirrel and The Cloud Forest.
- This title is paired with a story on the same theme: Buzz and Bingo in the Starry Sky by Alan Durant.
- This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
In this information book, detailed photographs, illustrations and vivid descriptions are used to introduce readers to some of the tiniest and weirdest monsters in the natural world. Information is organised into short chapters to help with information retrieval and the contents list can be used to select material for reading.
- Copper/Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer chapters that develop reading stamina.
- Text type – An information book.
- Pages 30 and 31 feature a table of weird little monsters that supports readers as they recount information.
- Curriculum links – Art and design: Mother Nature, designer; Science: Habitats; Music: Animal magic – Exploring descriptive sounds.
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
Talking Books are read-along versions of the Collins Big Cat titles. Lively readings, sound effects and music all help to bring the books to life.
They are designed to support reading comprehension and language acquisition for all children, and are ideal for working with less confident readers and children with English as an additional language.
Talking Books are read-along versions of the Collins Big Cat titles. Lively readings, sound effects and music all help to bring the books to life. Talking Books are designed to support reading comprehension and language acquisition for all children, and are ideal for working with less confident readers and children with English as an additional language.
Follow the butterfly on its journey from flower to flower through brightly coloured photographs. But look out! Butterfly almost lands on a yellow flower where a camouflaged crab spider waits to pounce!
- Lilac/Band 0 – wordless book that gives information through pictures and is designed to develop understanding about how information books work.
- Text type – Non-Fiction.
- A story map on pages 14 and 15 retells the story through repeated photograph to encourage speaking and listening.
- This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery