How to be a Magician!

by Isabel Thomas

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.

Learn how to impress your friends and family with these amazing magic tricks - and then discover the science behind them! This photographic instruction book was written by Isabel Thomas.

Turquoise/Band 7 books offer literary language and extended descriptions, with longer sentences and a wide range of unfamiliar terms.

The focus sounds in this book are: /sh/ ti, ssi /m/ mb /n/ kn, gn /r/ wr, zh /s/ ce, sc /zh/ su

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.

This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.


Reptiles Break Rules

by Isabel Thomas

Published 13 January 2020

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.

Some reptiles like to surprise us and break all the rules! Discover the three-eyed reptile, the reptile that can grow a new tail and the reptile that can walk on water in this fascinating non-fiction book by Isabel Thomas.

Turquoise/Band 7 books offer literary language and extended descriptions, with longer sentences and a wide range of unfamiliar terms.

The focus sounds in this book are: /n/ kn, gn /m/ mb /r/ wr /s/ c, ce, sc /c/ x
/zh/ sion /sh/ ti, ci

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.


Eggs on Toast

by Isabel Thomas

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.

Preeta, Trisha and Tarik are having eggs on toast for lunch, but Trisha and Tarik find it too boring. What will they do to make their lunch more exciting, and what chaos will it create? This humorous story is written by Isabel Thomas.

Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language.

This book focuses on adjacent consonants with long 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.


What's it made from?

by Isabel Thomas

Published 24 April 2019

From welders to cyclists and volcanologists, different jobs require very different types of protective clothing. Find out how the clothing we wear protects us in this non-fiction book.

From welders to cyclists and volcanologists, different jobs require very different types of protective clothing. Find out how the clothing we wear protects us in this non-fiction book.

Turquoise/Band 7 offers literary language and extended descriptions, with longer sentences and a wide range of unfamiliar and challenging vocabulary. Illustrations provide a lower level of support.

The focus sounds in this book are: /n/ kn, gn /m/ mb /sh/ ci, ti, si, ssi /s/ c, ce, sc /c/ qu(e) /zh/ s

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.


Bear Spotting

by Isabel Thomas

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 different species of bears around the world, from pandas and polar bears to spectacled bears and moon bears, in this beautiful non-fiction book by Isabel Thomas.

Green (Band 5) books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters.

The focus sounds in this book are: /ai/ ay, ei, ey, a-e /igh/ i, i-e /oa/ o, ow, o-e /oo/ u, ou /ee/ ea /ow/ ou /ar/ a /or/ au, aw, al /ure/ our /air/ ear, are, ere /ur/ ir, or /ear/ eer /e/ ea

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.

This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.


Strange Bridges

by Isabel Thomas

Published 13 January 2020

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 the different unusual bridges around the world, from see-through bridges to ones that look like dragons, in this photographic non-fiction book by Isabel Thomas.

Orange/Band 6 books offer varied text and characters, with action sustained over several pages.

The focus sounds in this book are: /ai/ eigh /ee/ e-e, ey, e, y /oo/ u /igh/ y /c/ ch /j/ g, ge, dge /l/ le /f/ ph /w/ wh /v/ ve /s/ se /z/ se

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.