Collins Big Cat
7 total works
Explore the fascinating life cycle of the salmon, from river life to the big oceans and back to where they hatched, in this highly photographic information book by Sally Morgan. Follow the fish from their very early stages through their journey to adulthood, and find out how other creatures' journeys through life compare.
- Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.
- An information book
- An illustrated life cycle of salmon on pages 54 and 55 help readers to recap the stages of the life cycles that are shown in the book.
- Curriculum Links: Science: Life Cycles
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
Your brain controls everything you do – from your movement to your senses and even your thoughts and decisions. Complete with detailed diagrams, discover how this important part of your body works, and how you can look after it.
- Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts.
- Text type: An information book.
- Curriculum links: Science.
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
All living things need food to survive. Find out who eats whom, and how we all link together to form a food chain.
- Ruby/Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction.
- Text type: an information book
- Curriculum links: science, geography
This photographic instruction book shows children how to keep worms as pets and take care of them correctly, including how to house them and what to feed them.
- This photographic instruction book shows children how to keep worms as pets and take care of them correctly, including how to house them and what to feed them.
- Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language
- Children can recap the stages of how to make a home for their worm on pages 14–15.
- Text type: A simple instruction book
- Curriculum links: Citizenship: Animals and us
Each day we use all of our five senses. We see people, hear sounds, touch objects, smell odours and taste food. Filled with diagrams and photos, this information book by award-winning author Sally Morgan looks at each of our senses in turn and explains how they work and why they are so important.
- White/Band 10 books have more complex sentences and figurative language.
- Text type: An information book.
- Curriculum links: Science: Ourselves; Sound and hearing.
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
David Attenborough has dedicated his life to nature. Through his television programmes he has brought amazing wildlife into our homes and helped us to understand more about the world. Find out all about his incredible life.
- 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
- 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 - Science
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.
Some animals eat plants, but did you know that some plants eat animals? All plants need food to survive, and if they don’t get enough nutrients from the soil they feed on small animals. Find out more about these amazing plants and the different ways they find their food in this non-fiction book.
Copper/Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer chapters that develop reading stamina.
Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.