Collins Big Cat
4 total works
Chocolate comes in many forms – from chocolate bars to hot chocolate – but how was it first discovered, and how is it made? Trace the journey chocolate makes, from the cocoa bean on the tree to the chocolate bar in the shop in this fascinating report.
- Copper/Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer chapters that develop reading stamina.
- Text type: A non-fiction report.
- Curriculum links: Geography; History.
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
The sandy Arabian Desert stretches for hundreds of kilometres in every direction. It may seem hard to believe that anything can live in this hot, dry land, but many different living things call it home. Find out about the amazing plants, animals, and people who live in this beautiful landscape.
- 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.
- Ideas for reading at the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
- Curriculum links: geography, science.
This little bird may be small, but it's very helpful to bigger animals. This photographic non-fiction book shows how the bird is able to help the larger animals around it, set against the stunning backdrop of Africa.
- Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language
- Children can recap the different ways the bird can help other animals on pages 14-15.
- Text type: A simple non-fiction book
- Curriculum links: Citizenship: Animals and us
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
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.
Have you ever looked up at the sky and wondered how amazing the Moon and stars look? Have you wondered how far away they are? For thousands of years, people all over the world have looked up at the sky and told fascinating stories to explain how the Sun, Moon and stars came to be.
White Plus/Band 10+ books provide challenging plots and vocabulary as well as opportunities to practise inference, prediction and reading stamina.
Pages 46 and 47 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.
Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
Anita has always been fascinated by the stars. As a child, she remembers visiting the London Planetarium, and being completely transfixed. She also loves reading stories about how people long ago found ways of understanding how the world worked, before science offered explanations. Being able to combine these two was a treat!