• 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.
• A storyboard on pages 14 and 15 provides children with the opportunity to retell the story in their own words.
• Curriculum links – Geography: our local area; Citizenship: animals and us.
• 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.