Books in Collins Big Cat Phonics series

This photographic non-fiction book gives children simple instructions for how to build their own tent in the garden using a sheet, a rope and some rocks.• This photographic non-fiction book gives children simple instructions for how to build their own tent in the garden using a sheet, a rope and some rocks.• Red A/Band 2A books offer predictable text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development.• Children can recap the stages of how to make a camp on pages 14–15.• Text type: An instruction text• Curriculum links: Art

Ever wondered how milk gets from the cow in the field to your glass? Filled with photographs, this non-fiction report takes you through every step, from milking the cow to transporting the milk to the supermarket.• Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language.• Text type: A non-fiction recount• Children can recap the different stages of milk production in the flow chart on pages 14–15.• Curriculum links: Knowledge and Understanding of the world

It’s a lovely day for walking in the park. Before long the dog is chasing a duck through the mud, and dragging its owner into mud and a pond. The dog is taken home, shakes water all over the car and Dad, and at home gets hosed down in the garden – along with poor Dad!• Pink A/Band 1A books offer emergent readers very simple text supported by illustrations.• Text type - A story with predictable structure and patterned language.• Children can follow the dog’s journey using the story map on pages 14 and 15.• This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery

The rain can be good if there is just the right amount, but what happens when there is too much rain or too little? This interesting, decodable non-fiction book is written be Helen Greathead.• Red B/Band 2B books offer simple but varied text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development and a satisfying conclusion.• Text type: A story with a predictable structure and patterned language• Pages 14–15 provide an opportunity for children to recap the story.Curriculum links: PSHE, Science, Geography

We use oil every day – whether on the bus to school or writing with a pen. But where does it come from? What impact is our use of it having on the environment? What will happen when we run out completely? Explore the answers to these questions in this detailed information book, with stunning photographs and clear diagrams.• 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: A non-chronological report.• Curriculum links: Geography: Improving the Environment, Citizenship: Choices.

At night in the rainforest, things start to happen. Meet the animals and insects that live in the rainforest, in this simple non-fiction recount by award-winning wildlife photographer, Nic Bishop.• Blue / Band 4 - An information book• Text type - Non-fiction• The focus phoneme in this book is aw (crawl).• A summary of the creatures that live in the rainforest can be found on the final spread.• Nic Bishop also wrote Yellow 3 Real Monsters.