Gold/Band 9 offers developing readers more challenging literary language and stories with distinctive characters.
Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support for exploring poetry, and stimulating activities.
Text type: A collection of poems
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.
Author
Anneliese Amoah, John Bernard, Simon Lamb, MC Grammar and Simon Mole, Illustrated by Thaís Mesquita, Prepared for publication by Collins Big Cat