Collins Big Cat
4 total works
Find out about the fascinating life of William Shakespeare - the world's most famous playwright. How did the politics of the time, and the queens, kings and rulers, affect his writing? Who was this man who had such a way with words?
- 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.
- The book is organised into short chapters to help children practise the skills of locating and identifying important information.
- The glossary and index can be used to develop children's information retrieval skills further.
- Curriculum links: History
Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11. 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 ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book.
Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.
Text type: Fiction from our literary heritage
Curriculum links: English: fiction from the literary heritage
A retelling of Anna Sewell's classic adventure story of Black Beauty as he starts life carefree in the field with his mother, and is then sold from owner to owner. Will he survive as his treatment gets worse and worse, and will he ever find an owner worthy of his unending loyalty?
Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.
Text type: Fiction from our literary heritage
Curriculum links: English: fiction from the English literary heritage
This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
A gripping and moving retelling of this poem written originally in the eighteenth century by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It tells the story of the Ancient Mariner and his adventures at sea, where tragedy strikes, more than once and he is ultimately saved – against the odds, teaching him the importance of humanity and humility.
- Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.