Collins Big Cat
3 total works
One day mysterious green clouds arrive in a fairy-tale kingdom and explode into a fine green dust, bringing an outbreak of mayhem and sneezing. All the King’s men can do is think of ever more silly ideas, and it is left to two children to save the Kingdom from the Sneezles.
- White/ Band 10 books have more complex sentences and figurative language.
- A humorous fantasy story.
- Pages 30 and 31 contain six playing cards of the main characters with their pictures and characteristics, an ideal cue for further discussion.
- Curriculum links – Citizenship: Choices, Taking part.
- This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.
This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
Chicken Licken is worried the sky is going to fall on his head, so he sets off with an increasing band of followers to tell the King. But will he get that far...?
- Purple/ Band 8 books offer developing readers literary language, with some challenging vocabulary.
- Text type - A traditional tale.
- A timeline of events retells this traditional tale for children to discuss and renact.
- Curriculum links - Citizenship: Choices; Science: Plants and animals in the local environment.
- This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
Bungleman is Pickleton's very own local superhero. Dennis is his long-suffering son. When disaster strikes in Pickleton, it is Bungleman who everyone calls upon to save the day. Unfortunately, Bungleman is a rather useless superhero. When things go wrong, Dennis secretly always comes to his dad's rescue.
- Topaz/Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate.
- Text type – A story with a familiar setting.
- A reader response page provides lots of opportunities for speaking and listening and to scaffold writing.
- Curriculum links – Art and design: People in action; Citizenship: People who help us – the local police; ICT: Writing stories: communicating information using text.
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.