• Purple/ Band 8 books offer developing readers literary language, with some challenging vocabulary.
• Text type – A poem.
• Curriculum links – History: ‘Pupils should be taught about … events beyond living memory that are significant nationally’.
• A royal timeline on pages 22–23, showing dates on the throne of all monarchs, allows children to place the poem in context.

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.