Collins Big Cat
4 total works
A traditional German tale about the perils of greed, and what happens to those who always want more than they have. When a fisherman catches a magical fish, he has the chance to change his fortune, but will his wife's dissatisfaction put everything at risk?
Copper/Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer chapters that develop reading stamina.
Text type: A traditional tale
Curriculum links: English: fairy stories, myths and legends; books from other cultures and traditions
This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
Find out what happens to the little egg in this patterned story, filled with colourful illustrations by Shoo Rayner.
- Yellow level/ Band 3 books offer early readers varied sentence structure and natural language.
- Text type – A patterned story with a predictable structure.
- A storyboard on pages 14 and 15 reveals what happens to the little egg through a pictorial summary of the day, providing the opportunity to recap the story.
- Curriculum links – Knowledge and Understanding of the World: life processes and living things; Science: Plants and animals in the local environment; life cycles
- This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.
This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
A wonderful retelling of Oscar Wilde’s classic story about a fierce, angry giant, who wants nothing to do with the children who play in his beautiful garden. But when he finds himself miserable and alone in an eternal winter-land, it’s an act of kindness to an unlikely friend that brings back Spring and finally, happiness.
Copper/Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer chapters that develop reading stamina.
Text type: Fiction from our literary heritage
Curriculum links: English: fiction from the English literary heritage.
This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
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.
It’s Ammar’s first day of school and he doesn’t want to go. He can’t speak English and wishes he was back home in Syria. Will Ammar find a friend, even when he can’t speak the language?
Copper/Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer chapters that develop reading stamina.
Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.