Let's Pretend!

by Kate Scott

Published 24 April 2019

Dev and Jack are swimming in the pool when Jack has an idea - they can pretend they are swimming in the sea! Find out all the creatures they see on their swimming adventure in this imaginative story by Kate Scott.

Dev and Jack are swimming in the pool when Jack has an idea - they can pretend they are swimming in the sea! Find out all the creatures they see on their swimming adventure in this imaginative story by Kate Scott.

Green/Band 5 offers early readers longer sentences with a varied and larger number of characters involved and events sustained over several pages. Non-fiction uses less familiar, more specialized vocabulary.

The focus sounds in this book are: /oa/ oe, o /ai/ a-e, ay, ei, ey
/e/ ea /ee/ ea /u/ o /igh/ i-e, i /i/ y /oo/ oul /oo/ u-e /oi/ oy /ar/ a /ow/ ou /ear/ eer /air/ are, ere /or/ al /u/ o-e /o/ a

Pages 22 and 23 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.

Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.


How the Ear Can Hear

by Kate Scott

Published 8 December 2017

Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1-6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.

Find out all about our ears and how they help us to hear the world in this photographic information book by Kate Scott.

Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language

This book focuses on adjacent consonants with short vowel phonemes.

Pages 14 and 15 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.

Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.


Jazz and Jet

by Kate Scott

Published 26 September 2019

Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1-6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.

Jet the dog and Jazz the cat live together, but when Jazz steals Jet's bed will Jet be happy to share?

The sounds in this book are:/j/ /w/ /y/ /z/ /qu/ /sh/ /ch/ /th/ zz

Pages 14 and 15 contain an "I Spy" feature with a specific phoneme focus, which uses visual support to help children embed phonic knowledge.

Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.