Collins Big Cat
Early – Upper Years • Levelled • Years F/K-6
Collins Big Cat
Early – Upper Years • Levelled • Years F/K-6
From early phonic development to fluent reading
Big Cat is a whole-school reading program that provides complete support for primary reading.
- A secure start to every child’s reading journey with hundreds of decodable reading books to practise phonics
- Foster a love of reading with over 1000 levelled titles featuring beautiful illustrations and stunning photography for every step of a child’s reading journey
- Support teaching across the curriculum with high-quality fiction and non-fiction covering a variety of genres and topics.
- Develop and assess key reading skills, including inference and deduction, through comprehensive teaching and assessment support.
Stimulating text, engaging illustrations & photography provide discussion points and help develop speaking and listening skills.
A variety of text types from top authors like poetry from Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen, ensures students read with enjoyment and motivation.
Step-by-step guide to using the book in a guided reading session provides you with lots of ideas for discussion ‘points’ and activities.
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Collins Big Cat
Big Cat is a whole-school reading program that provides complete support for primary reading.
A secure start to every child’s reading journey with hundreds of decodable reading books to practise phonics
Foster a love of reading with over 1000 levelled titles featuring beautiful illustrations and stunning photography for every step of a child’s reading journey
Support teaching across the curriculum with high-quality fiction and non-fiction covering a variety of genres and topics.
Develop and assess key reading skills, including inference and deduction, through comprehensive teaching and assessment support.
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Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters & Sounds
Ensure a secure start to every child’s reading journey in Foundation –
Year 2 [Y1-3] with these decodable fiction and non-fiction books.
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Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters & Sounds – Little Wandle Fluency
a collection designed to improve fluency in young readers. Fluency is measured by the number of words read correctly per minute, emphasizing both speed and accuracy. This pack helps children develop the ability to read words accurately and effortlessly, enhancing their overall reading fluency.
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Collins Big Cat Phonics Practice
72 highly decodable books for further development and practice with engaging stories.
Providing everything you need to teach phonics first, fast and systematically in an easy-to-use format.
Phonics features:
- Decodable titles from top children’s authors to ensure children love reading from an early age
- 36 fiction, 36 non-fiction for a wide range of texts
- Great for Take Homes!
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Collins Big Cat Phonics Progress
24 Phonics Progress books, perfect for children in Year 2 [Y3]. These high-quality books ensure that children can develop decoding skills at an interest level appropriate to them.
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Collins Big Cat Progress
Reach all of your struggling readers – especially the boys!
Ideal for targeted intervention or catch-up.
Additional support to build confidence and positive reading attitudes. They are specifically designed for struggling Years 3-6 [Y4-7] children giving them age-appropriate texts that they can read, building their confidence and fostering positive attitudes towards reading.
- Raise the reading age of struggling Year 3-6 [Y4-7] readers with high interest/low ability books
- Boy-focussed themes and topics
- Meaningful content for older readers.
- 71 high interest/low ability books.
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Collins Big Cat Guided Reading
The Collins Big Cat Complete Pack features 462 texts from the Big Cat Lilac to Lime + range with an additional 388 texts from the Big Cat Chapters books (Copper to Pearl). To support guided reading sessions, 6 guided reading handbooks (.pdf download) are available with this pack with targeted lesson plans and activities to boost comprehension, inference and vocabulary.
Through stimulating text, engaging illustrations & photography, these books provide discussion points and help to develop speaking and listening skills. The high-quality levelled books in this pack are for the whole school covering a wealth of genres & topics.
Choose Collins Big Cat for your school!
A secure start to every child’s reading journey
From early Phonic development to fluent reading, Big Cat is a whole-school reading program that provides complete support for primary reading.
Foster a love of reading with over 1200 levelled titles featuring beautiful illustrations and stunning photography for every step of a child’s reading journey
Support teaching across the curriculum with high-quality fiction and non-fiction covering a variety of genres and topics.
Develop and assess key reading skills, including inference and deduction, through comprehensive teaching and assessment support.
Discover more about Big Cat Guided Reading here
Collins Big Cat eBooks
Access over 1000 eBooks with the Big Cat eBook library!
All of the Big Cat books are now available in an eBook library.
- Supports front of class teacher modelling and shared reading when used on interactive whiteboards
- Perfect for home reading so children can practise reading decodable books at the right level without the need to share books amongst students
- Improves home-school links as parents can use the ‘before you read’ support for phonics and ‘after reading’ activity ideas
- New books are added throughout the year, as they become available, keeping the reading library engaging and exciting
- Easy to access, straight forward to set up.
Discover more about Collins Big Cat eBooks here
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