Collins Big Cat
4 total works
This humorous story with a familiar setting, told from her older brother's point of view, reveals baby Ella's love of reading books. But when Ella is as fierce as the tiger in the book she is reading she makes a woman faint, and nearly causes a policeman to arrest her. However the woman recognises Ella's talent and she is catapulted into stardom.
- Green/ Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters.
- Text type - A story with a familiar setting.
- On pages 22 and 23, a newspaper clipping and an advertisement of baby Ella's TV show prompt children to recap and discuss the story.
- Curriculum links - Citizenship: Choices; People who help us.
Read this humorous fantasy story about Rex the dinosaur who wants to give animals super haircuts and make them happy.
- Green/ Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters.
- Text type - A humorous fantasy story.
- The illustrations on page 22 and 23 prompts children to recap and discuss the story.
- Curriculum links - Citizenship: Choices; Living in a diverse world; Taking part.
At Good Fun Farm, the animals are fed up. The sign says Good Fun Farm, but they never have any fun. Then the smallest duckling makes an interesting discovery. Soon everyone on the farm is having fun ... find out how.
- Turquoise/ Band 7 books offer literay language and extended descriptions, with longer sentences and a wide range of unfamiliar terms.
- Text type - A humorous story.
- An illustration on pages 22 and 23 labels the animals at their game of football, allowing children to look back on the key characters and retell the story in their own words.
- Curriculum links - PE: Games and activities.
The steam train is pulling out of the station, it heads to the hills, into a rainstorm, through a tunnel and out the other side into the sunshine and to the seaside. Follow the rhythm and the rhyme of this simple poem and travel with the train on its wonderful adventure, beautifully illustrated by Rosalind Hudson.
- Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language.
- Text type: A poem.
- A map of the journey the steam train takes on pages 14-15 helps children to recap the poem and provides a wealth of speaking and listening opportunities.
- Curriculum links: Music.
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.