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. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available.

Learn about extreme exploration. Adventure with the bravest explorers up the highest mountains, down into the deepest seas, across parched deserts - and even into space!

Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.

Text type: An information book

Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.

Curriculum Links - Geography


Fake News

by Paul Harrison

Published 10 January 2022

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. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available.

What is fake news and why is it important? Learn about this modern phenomenon and how to sort the fact from the fiction.

Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.

Text type: An information book

Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.

Curriculum Links: PSHE