Collins Big Cat
5 total works
Carl Linnaeus was one of the most important and influential scientists who ever lived. He invented a system for naming and classifying living things, which is still in use today, and went on scientific expeditions to remote parts of the world. Discover Linnaeus's adventurous life and how his work has inspired scientists ever since.
- Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books.
- Text type - An information book.
- The book is organised into short chapters to help children practise the skills of locating and identifying important information.
- The glossary and index can be used to develop children's information retrieval skills further.
Guided Reading Handbook Pink to Yellow
by Catherine Casey, Emma Caulfield, Sue Cove, and Liz Miles
Collins Big Cat Guided Reading Handbooks provide a continuous programme of teaching and assessment that take every reader from phonics to fluency.
- Detailed support for both collaborative guided reading sessions and independent sessions for every Big Cat book.
- Supports practice of reading comprehension strategies through focused, targeted lesson plans and resource sheets, ensuring every pupil reaches age-related expectations.
- Includes advice for demonstration and modelling in every lesson plan, supporting pupils in developing key skills such as inference and deduction from the start.
- Vocabulary Boost sessions for every book to extend pupils' expressive and receptive vocabulary.
- Formative and summative assessment opportunities to fully assess pupil progress in reading.
- Matches to the current programmes of study for English, Science, History and Geography.
- Supporting resource sheets and editable lesson plans available at collins.co.uk.
This book will show you how to be a landscape detective! The way we use the land around us has changed a lot over the centuries, and it’s still changing today. Visit Colchester in Essex and Portree on the Isle of Skye to find out how!
- 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 information book
- Curriculum links: Geography
Guided Reading Handbook Purple to Lime
by Catherine Casey, Emma Caulfield, Gill Matthews, and Liz Miles
Collins Big Cat Guided Reading Handbooks provide a continuous programme of teaching and assessment that take every reader from phonics to fluency.
- Detailed support for both collaborative guided reading sessions and independent sessions for every Big Cat book.
- Supports practice of reading comprehension strategies through focused, targeted lesson plans and resource sheets, ensuring every pupil reaches age-related expectations.
- Includes advice for demonstration and modelling in every lesson plan, supporting pupils in developing key skills such as inference and deduction from the start.
- Vocabulary Boost sessions for every book to extend pupils' expressive and receptive vocabulary.
- Formative and summative assessment opportunities to fully assess pupil progress in reading.
- Matches to the current programmes of study for English, Science, History and Geography.
- Supporting resource sheets and editable lesson plans available at collins.co.uk.
Guided Reading Handbook Blue to Turquoise
by Catherine Casey, Emma Caulfield, Gill Matthews, and Liz Miles
Collins Big Cat Guided Reading Handbooks provide a continuous programme of teaching and assessment that take every reader from phonics to fluency.
- Detailed support for both collaborative guided reading sessions and independent sessions for every Big Cat book.
- Supports practice of reading comprehension strategies through focused, targeted lesson plans and resource sheets, ensuring every pupil reaches age-related expectations.
- Includes advice for demonstration and modelling in every lesson plan, supporting pupils in developing key skills such as inference and deduction from the start.
- Vocabulary Boost sessions for every book to extend pupils' expressive and receptive vocabulary.
- Formative and summative assessment opportunities to fully assess pupil progress in reading.
- Matches to the current programmes of study for English, Science, History and Geography.
- Supporting resource sheets and editable lesson plans available at collins.co.uk.