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Books in Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds series

  • Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds – Fiction 2: Band 1A/Pink A

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    Paperback (Collins, April 1, 2020)
    Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.A mysterious large box has appeared in the living room and it’s wrapped like a present. Will Dad and his daughter Pip work out what is inside?Pink A/Band 1A offers emergent readers very simple, highly predictable texts and provides direct support through illustrations.The focus sounds in this book are:Pages 14 and 15 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
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  • Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds – Fiction 2: Band 1B/Pink B

    Prepared for publication by Co Prepared for publication by Collins Big Cat

    Paperback (Collins, April 1, 2020)
    Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.Cat and Dog have each found a nut, but will either of them be able to crack their nut to eat what is inside?Pink B/Band 1B offers emergent readers simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actions.The focus sounds in this book are:Pages 14 and 15 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
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  • Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds – Not in Otter's Pocket!: Band 5/Green

    Suzanne Senior, Angelika Scudamore

    Paperback (Collins, July 1, 2020)
    Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.Sea Otter has a stone that he keeps in the little pocket under his arm. It is the best stone in the world, but today it is missing! Will he ever find it again?Green (Band 5) books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters.The focus sounds for this book are: /igh/ i, i-e /ai/ ay, ey /oa/ o, o-e /oo/ ue, ew /ow/ ou /ee/ ea /ar/ a /or/ aw, augh, al /air/ ere /ur/ ir, or, ear /ear/ ere, eer /e/ a /o/ a /u/ o-ePages 22 and 23 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
  • Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds – The Power Cut: Band 2B/Red B

    Samantha Montgomerie, Alfredo Belli

    Paperback (Collins, July 1, 2020)
    Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.There’s a power cut in the middle of a storm. What will one family do to keep themselves entertained?Red B/Band 2B books offer simple but varied text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development and a satisfying conclusion.The focus sounds in this book are: /ai/ /ee/ /igh/ /oa/ /oo/ /oo/ /ar/ /or/ /ur/ /ow/ /er/Pages 14 and 15 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
  • Sit in!: Band 1A/Pink A

    Clare Helen Welsh, Julia Seal

    Paperback (Collins, July 1, 2020)
    Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.Join a group of children as they all pile in to a little wooden sit-in car. Will there be room for Sam too?Pink A- Pink A/Band 1A offers emergent readers very simple, highly predictable texts and provides direct support through illustrations.The focus sounds in this book are:/s/ /a/ /t/ /p/ /i/ /n/ /m/ /d/Pages 14 and 15 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
  • Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds – How do I feel?: Band 3/Yellow

    Helen Dineen, Lucy Makuc

    Paperback (Collins, July 1, 2020)
    Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.Join one child on a day trip as she explores her likes and dislikes for each of her five senses in this thought-provoking non-fiction book.Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural languageThis book focuses on adjacent consonants with short vowel phonemes.Pages 14 and 15 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
  • Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds – Fix it, Fox: Band 2A/Red A

    Samantha Montgomerie, Gustavo Mazali

    Paperback (Collins, July 1, 2020)
    Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.Fox loves to fix things and zooms off in his van to help the other animals. But can he fix it himself when his van breaks down?The focus sounds for this book are: /v/ /x/ /y/ /z/ /qu/ /ch/ /sh/ /th/ /ng/ /nk/Pages 14 and 15 contain an β€œI Spy” feature with a specific phoneme focus, which uses visual support to help children embed phonic knowledge.Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
  • Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds – Scrap Rat: Band 3/Yellow

    Clare Helen Welsh, Irene Montano

    Paperback (Collins, July 1, 2020)
    Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.Scrap Rat has been lovingly created by Stan, and causes havoc in the classroom. But what will happen when the class cat spots him?Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language.This book focuses on adjacent consonants with short vowel phonemes.Pages 14 and 15 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
  • Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds – Super Sharks: Band 5/Green

    Ben Hubbard

    Paperback (Collins, July 1, 2020)
    Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.Meet the super hunters of the sea in this photographic non-fiction book filled with facts about sharks.Green/Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters.The focus sounds in this book are: /igh/ i, i-e /ai/ ay, ey, a-e /oa/ o, ow, o-e /oo/ ue, ew, u-e /ee/ ea /ow/ ou /oo/ oul /or/ aw, augh, al /er/ or, ear /e/ a /u/ o, our, o-ePages 22 and 23 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
  • Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds – Phonics Handbook Yellow to Turquoise: Full Support For Teaching Letters and Sounds

    Collins Big Cat

    Paperback (Collins, May 1, 2018)
    Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.The Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds Handbook provides full support for integrating the Big Cat series into your phonic teaching, including:β€’ targeted lesson plans that guide practice of reading comprehension strategies and vocabulary development, ensuring every pupil reaches age-related expectations.β€’ advice for demonstration and modelling, supporting pupils in developing fluency and correct pronunciation from the start.β€’ engaging phonic activities and resource sheets allow further exploration of every phoneme and grapheme in Letters and Sounds in the context of each Big Cat book.β€’ support for using every Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds book in a phonics reading session, aligned with Letters and Sounds.β€’ formative and summative assessment opportunities to fully assess pupil progress in phonic learning.β€’ links to the current programmes of study for English, Science, History and Geography.
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  • Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds – Phonics Handbook Lilac to Red: Full Support For Teaching Letters and Sounds

    Collins Big Cat

    Paperback (Collins, April 1, 2018)
    Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.The Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds Handbook provides full support for integrating the Big Cat series into your phonic teaching, including:β€’ targeted lesson plans that guide practice of reading comprehension strategies and vocabulary development, ensuring every pupil reaches age-related expectations.β€’ advice for demonstration and modelling, supporting pupils in developing fluency and correct pronunciation from the start.β€’ engaging phonic activities and resource sheets allow further exploration of every phoneme and grapheme in Letters and Sounds in the context of each Big Cat book.β€’ support for using every Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds book in a phonics reading session, aligned with Letters and Sounds.β€’ formative and summative assessment opportunities to fully assess pupil progress in phonic learning.β€’ links to the current programmes of study for English, Science, History and Geography.
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  • Tim and the Tiger: Band 7/Turquoise

    Celia Warren, Collins Big Cat

    Paperback (Collins, )
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