• Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language.
• Text type – A traditional story.
• A flow chart on pages 14 and 15 shows the different body parts that make up Bill’s new friend, giving children the opportunity to recap and retell the story.
• Curriculum links – Science: ourselves, parts of the body.
• Talk, Talk, Talk is one of three Collins Big Cat books by Martin Waddell.
• This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.

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.

Collins Big Cat is a whole-school reading programme that provides complete support for primary reading. Children will become fluent readers through hundreds of high-quality fiction and non-fiction banded books by award-winning authors and illustrators. In-depth teaching resources support you in developing and assessing key reading skills at all stages from early reading through to phonics, to guided, whole-class and independent reading for more confident readers.