Collins Big Cat Phonics
7 total works
Prince Hal is upset – he wants the moon. So the King and Queen send their servants, Grim and Crumb, out to catch the moon for him, with hilarious consequences. This charming story by award-winning author Mal Peat and Elspeth Graham is illustrated by Xiao Xin.
This book is a Band 04/Blue book in the Collins Big Cat reading programme which offers longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language. This is a simple story with a familiar setting and children can recap the main stages of the story on pages 14 and 15, providing lots of speaking and listening opportunities. This book supports learning around knowledge and understanding the world. This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader. For more guided reading books in this Collins Big Cat band, try What’s Underground? (9780007185863) written by Gill Munton and illustrated by Peter Bull.
Nests have lots of eggs and a nest must be hidden to protect it. Discover the range of places where birds build nests in this lovely, decodable non-fiction book by Elspeth Graham.
- Red A/Band 2A books offer predictable text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development.
- Text type: A simple non-fiction book
- Pages 14–15 provide an opportunity for children to recap the book.
- Curriculum links: Science, PSHE, Geography
Learn how to make amazing shadow puppets including a dog, duck, bat and snail. This fun, decodable instruction book is written by Elspeth Graham.
- Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language
- Text type: A simple instruction book
- Pages 14–15 provide an opportunity for children to recap the story.
- Curriculum links: Science
Bert lives deep in the rainforest and is completely awestruck by the beauty of other bright and wonderful creatures. If only he could sparkle like that? Or can he? This wonderful, decodable story is written by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham and fantastically illustrated by Simona Messier.
- Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language.
- Text type: A story with a familiar setting.
- Pages 14–15 provide an opportunity for children to recap the story.
- Curriculum links: science, geography.
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
Zog is an alien and Zebra lives on Earth, but what happens when these two become friends and encounter a dangerous creature? This fun, decodable story is written by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham and fantastically illustrated by Sarah Horne.
- Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language
- Text type: A fantasy story
- Pages 14–15 provide an opportunity for children to recap the story.
- Curriculum links: PSHE
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
The fly was hungry, and buzzed over to the park to see what he could find. In the park he quickly spied lots of food, but found getting that food was much less straightforward! Join the fly as he gets into endless trouble on his search for something to eat, in this humorous story by award-winning author Mal Peat and Elspeth Graham.
- Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language.
- Text type: A story with a familiar setting.
- Children can follow the fly’s route around the park and recap the different situations he finds himself in on pages 14–15.
- Ideas for guided reading at the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
Follow the life of a chicken – from its early days as a chick hatching in its nest, to laying eggs of its own, in this photographic information book by Elspeth Graham.
- Red A/Band 2A books offer predictable text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development.
- Text type: An information book
- Children can recap the stages of a chicken’s life in the flow chart on pages 14–15.
- Curriculum links: Knowledge and Understanding of the World
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.