Collins Big Cat
31 total works
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.
Sam and Layla enjoy playing games, chatting to their friends and watching things online. But sometimes using the internet worries them and they don't always enjoy screen time as much as they think they will. Why is that?
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.
Lisa co-authored Exploring Cyberspace with Kyle Taylor to help children make sense of the internet and its increasing presence in their lives. Following her own children's experiences, she wants to help provide context as children navigate their lives online, encouraging them to interpret what they see and make active choices.
Kyle Taylor has spent his career working on issues surrounding data, democracy and the impact of the digital age on society. He is an expert on digital privacy and data issues. Kyle is the author of "The Little Black Book of Data and Democracy" - a beginner's guide to social media and society, which is aimed at adult audiences. He co-authored Exploring Cyberspace to offer children and parents an accessible way to introduce these complex topics to young people so they are prepared for the digital world.
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. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available.
When Dani Binns opens her toy box something exciting happens ...
Dani Binns is an architect! A school needs more classrooms, but the only land available is too small and right next to a canal. Inspired by her pyramid-shaped beanbag, Dani turns the world of building upside down by looking at things from a different angle.
This exciting title in the Dani Binns mini-series is written by Lisa Rajan.
White/Band 10 books have more complex sentences and figurative language.
Text type: An adventure story
Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
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. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available.
When Dani Binns opens her toy box something exciting happens ...
Dani Binns is an emergency plumber! When a burst pipe causes a flood in a dog rescue centre, Dani has to think fast to temporarily fix the leak. With the help of one of the dogs, she uses her modelling clay to stop the leak, and attaches pipes together to redirect the water outside.
This exciting title in the Dani Binns mini-series is written by Lisa Rajan.
Gold/Band 9 books offer developing readers literary language and stories with distinctive characters.
Text type: An adventure story
Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
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. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available.
When Dani Binns opens her toy box something exciting happens ...
Dani Binns is a helicopter pilot! She is part of an air-sea rescue team, who have received a distress call from a boat stuck out on the stormy sea. With the help of her maze puzzle game, Dani steadies her nerves and the helicopter so her teammates can rescue the sailor.
This exciting title in the Dani Binns mini-series is written by Lisa Rajan.
Lime/Band 11 books have longer sentence structures and a greater use of literary language.
Text type: An adventure story
Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
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. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available.
When Tara Binns opens her dressing up box something exciting happens ...
Tara Binns is a volcanologist! Tara is excited to find herself on the rocky slopes of a majestic volcano ... until the ground starts shaking, clouds of stinky gas surround her and she spots a huge crack up near the summit. Is the volcano about to erupt ...?
This exciting title in the Tara Binns mini-series is written by Lisa Rajan.
Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.
Text type: An adventure story
Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
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. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available.
When Tara Binns opens her dressing up box something exciting happens ...
Tara Binns is a deep-sea explorer! Earthquakes, freezing darkness and a giant squid put Tara under pressure on her trip to the very bottom of the ocean. But even when she's out of her depth, Tara dives right into every challenge ...
This exciting title in the Tara Binns mini-series is written by Lisa Rajan.
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 adventure story
Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
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. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available.
When Tara Binns opens her dressing up box something exciting happens …
Tara Binns is a microbiologist! Something is causing chaos in the scientists' greenhouse … and everything Tara touches seems to fall apart! Can she corner the culprit and get to the root of the problem?
This exciting title in the Tara Binns mini-series is written by Lisa Rajan.
Copper/Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer chapters that develop reading stamina.
Text type: An adventure story
Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
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. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available.
When Dani Binns opens her toy box something exciting happens ...
Dani Binns is a dentist! A boy comes into the dental surgery with toothache. He needs a filling but won't sit still, so Dani distracts him by projecting entertaining pictures on the ceiling with her starlight projector.
This exciting title in the Dani Binns mini-series is written by Lisa Rajan.
Purple/Band 8 books offer developing readers literary language, with some challenging vocabulary.
Text type: An adventure story
Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
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. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available.
When Tara Binns opens her dressing up box something exciting happens ...
Tara Binns is a robotics engineer! When a delivery robot ignores simple instructions and messes up the lab, the robotics team are left confused. Smart robots are supposed to be intelligent! But Tara later discovers that the robot is even smarter than expected ...
This exciting title in the Tara Binns mini-series is written by Lisa Rajan.
Ruby/Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction.
Text type: An adventure story
Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
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. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available.
When Tara Binns opens her dressing up box something exciting happens ...
Tara Binns is a physicist! A group of scientists are trying to find new uses for maglev technology, from designing flying trains ... to flying cars ... and even flying people! It takes a few tumbles for Tara to bring the team together to turn mighty magnetic forces into futuristic fun.
This exciting title in the Tara Binns mini-series is written by Lisa Rajan.
Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.
Text type: An adventure story
Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
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. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available.
When Tara Binns opens her dressing up box something exciting happens ...
Tara Binns is an environmental engineer! Eco-friendly energy is good for the planet, but what if it spoils a beautiful view? Tara Binns makes a big splash in the world of wind power and everyone is blown over by the strength of her sparky ideas.
This exciting title in the Tara Binns mini-series is written by Lisa Rajan.
Topaz/Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate.
Text type: An adventure story
Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.