Collins Big Cat
4 total works
"What do monsters eat for breakfast? Dreaded Wheat!" is just one joke from this extended collection of monster jokes that are arranged by theme. Some jokes will be familiar to children and some will make them groan with delight. Colourful pictures help bring the jokes to life.
- Copper/Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer chapters that develop reading stamina.
- Text type - A joke book.
- An advert for a 'Monster comedy night' is included on pages 30 and 31. This can be used to help readers think about how they might promote their own Monster Comedy Night.
- Curriculum links - ICT: Combining text and graphics.
- This book is paired with a non-fiction book on a similar theme: Weird Little Monsters by Nic Bishop.
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Cat steps out through the cat flap, unaware that Dog is about to pounce. A frantic chase follows, which almost ends in catastrophe. But there is a suprise twist in the tale when Dog rescues Cat.
- Lilac/Band 0 - wordless book that tells a story through pictures and is designed to develop understanding about how stories work.
- Text type - Fiction.
- The final spread shows the route of Cat and Dog's chase through the park and can be used by the children to discuss and retell the story.
- Shoo Rayner also wrote and illustrated the Pink B story, Fly Away Home
- This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery
Little Red Hen is looking for Granny’s house in the big, bad city. Should she trust the smiley stranger who wants to help her?
- Turquoise/ Band 7 books offer literary language and extended descriptions, with longer sentences and a wide range of unfamiliar terms.
- Text type – A traditional tale
- The story is followed on pages 22 and 23 by a map of Mr Fox’s whole route, which is a great way to recap and discuss the story with children and gives an opportunity to extend into further work outside the reading session.
- Curriculum links: geography: ‘Pupils should be taught to use simple compass directions (North, South, East and West) and locational and directional language [for example, near and far; left and right], to describe the location of features and routes on a map’.
Poor Ladybird is lost and flies around the garden looking for somewhere she can call home. Her early efforts are rebuffed by the other animals, until finally she finds somewhere she can be happy: a ladybird-patterned T-shirt, where other ladybird friends soon come to join her.
- Pink B/ Band 1B books offer emergent readers simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actions.
- Text type - A patterned story with predictable structure.
- The storymap on pages 14 and 15 shows the route Ladybird took in search of a home, providing opportunities for speaking and listening.
- This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery