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2 1 0 2 • 1 1 0 2 e u Little Red g Riding Hood o l a t a C g n i d a e Ensure progression and build fluent readers R Extensive teacher support e Support reading for meaning v Audio and digital resources o L 50% fiction and 50% non-fiction e Series Editor: Cliff Moon h www.colllinsbigcat.com [email protected] 0870 787 1610 T Contents Try Collins Big Cat today Introduction Learn to read with Collins Big Cat ............................. 4/5 Starter Sets Learn to Love Reading with Collins Big Cat .............. 6/7 The ideal way to try Collins Big Cat, to Teachers love Collins Big Cat too ............................. 8/9 plug gaps and to refresh your reading Teacher Support .................................................... 10/11 resources at unbeatable prices. Starter The Collins Big Cat Chart ...................................... 12/13 Sets contain a complete set of titles New for 2011/2012 ............................................... 14/15 from each band with a big discount on Age 3 –5 16/17 the normal price. Try a starter set for foundation years, Key Stage 1 or Key Lilac ...................................................................... 18/19 Pink A .................................................................... 20/21 Why Collins Big Cat? Stage 2. Pink B ..................................................................... 22/23 Develop a life-long love of reading with Collins Big Cat, the Contact your local rep Red A ..................................................................... 24/25 Red B ..................................................................... 26/27 primary reading programme with a difference. Our friendly sales reps would love to chat to you about your classroom needs. Age 5 –6 28/29 Collins Big Cat teaches children to read accurately, fluently and with See the back cover for contact details. enjoyment, putting a range of reading strategies into practice whilst thinking Yellow .................................................................... 30/31 Collins Big Cat Writing Competition about meaning. Winners’ Books ...................................................... 32/33 Our unrivalled range of 50% non-fiction and 50% fiction from top authors who Blue ....................................................................... 34/35 understand exactly what children love to read will inspire and motivate your Green ..................................................................... 36/37 young readers, whilst our extensive teacher and assessment support helps you Age 6 –7 38/39 monitor and improve reading levels for all children. Orange .................................................................. 40/41 Turquoise ............................................................... 42/43 Purple .................................................................... 44/45 The great thing about Big Cat is simplicity… Whether as a stand- Gold ...................................................................... 46/47 alone scheme or a complement to others, this series provides a White ..................................................................... 48/49 welcome support to schools Lime ....................................................................... 50/51 Times Educational Supplement Age 7 –11 52/53 I am really enthralled by the series! … They are exciting, great to Age 7 –8 use [and the] children love them! Copper .................................................................. 54/55 Helen Borley, Greenham Court Community Primary School Topaz ..................................................................... 56/57 The content was brilliant for not only guided reading sessions but Age 8 –9 also as early non-fiction finding out sessions. BRILLIANT! Ruby ...................................................................... 58/59 Emerald ................................................................. 60/61 Leominster Infants School, Herefordshire Age 9 –11 Sapphire ................................................................ 62/63 Diamond ................................................................ 64/65 Pearl ...................................................................... 66/67 Additional Support Progress ................................................................. 68/69 Audio Books .......................................................... 70/71 E-Resources ........................................................... 72/73 Collins Big Cat Apps ............................................. 74/75 The Collins Big Cat Writing Competition .............. 76/77 What’s available online? ........................................ 78/79 How to contact us ....................................................... 80 www.collinsbigcat.com www.collinsbigcat.com LC1009 Learn to read with Collins Big Cat Each Collins Big Cat book is levelled by reading expert Cliff Moon to ensure precise, systematic, measurable progression so you can support the reading needs of every child. Every Collins Big Cat book includes a unique reader response activity, for example a story map, a flow chart, a game or poster to encourage children to respond and recall Collins Big Cat books utilise a range of reading strategies: what they have read. This offers an ideal opportunity to monitor reading comprehension phonic, graphic, syntactic and contextual to build confident, through dialogue. accurate, fluent readers. Ideas for reading are provided in the back of every Collins Big Cat book to help you support each child. Learning objectives, curriculum links, high-frequency and interest words are highlighted and activities suggested with discussion prompts to ensure children are reading for meaning, building higher-order thinking skills, vocabulary and connecting reading to writing. Designed to build speaking and listening Monitor children’s progress and as well as reading skills, Collins Big Cat collect evidence to ensure includes incredible illustrations, systematic, sustained progression photographs, reader response pages and with the Collins Big Cat Assessment ideas for reading. & Support Guides and free APP Support Packs. 4 www.collinsbigcat.com www.collinsbigcat.com 5 Learn to love reading with Collins Big Cat Top-quality texts from a wide range of authors An incredible variety of topics, illustrators, formats that children love to read, including Michael and styles appeal to the range of tastes in your Rosen, Julia Donaldson, Michael Morpurgo and classroom and give children a broad, exciting Nick Butterworth make reading more enjoyable - reading experience that supports the move into lia D a huge stimulus to learning for child, parent and Ju ona independent life-long reading. ld s teacher. o n N ic k B u t t e r w o r t h ael Morpu ich rg M o n e s o R l e a h c i M fiction non-fiction s e l t i t d e r i a p An equal split between fiction and non-fiction and a Bring reading to life with an engaging wide variety of genres and text types encourages multi-sensory package. Audio, animated and children to widen their reading experience. interactive digital components will motivate children and progress their learning. At each level, linked titles allow children to pursue interests across text types, providing greater reading variety. 6 www.collinsbigcat.com www.collinsbigcat.com 7 Teachers love Collins Big Cat too… Children are excited and motivated by its The children love the stories and the non-fiction variety and teachers have noticed a real change in texts and they are a fantastic resource to ‘teach’ attitude towards reading. Thank you ! reading with. They also make a great link into Caroline Fisher, Class Teacher and Literacy Co-ordinator, Swinton writing. Fitzwilliam Primary School Helen Jameson, Assistant Head, New Park Community Primary The non-fiction titles are particular favourites and whereas before children weren’t so keen on reading non-fiction, they are now a popular choice. The children enjoy both the quality of the illustrations as well as the stories. Bridget Frampton, Headteacher, Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School and Nursery Goin g For a Drive We use Big Cat in our Foundation Stage and KS1. The books are great for guided reading, tying in with most topics and it’s a boon that they are accurately book banded for easy tailoring. C A. Roberts, Class Teacher, Charlestown CPS The children love the Big Cat books – and that means we like them too! The activities suggested inside the back cover are a hit with parents. J. Challis, Literacy Co-ordinator, Class teacher, Carendon Endowed Primary School olours Great ideas at the back of the C Big Cat has been especially useful in this school book to help focus learning. which has a high proportion of SEN. Even year 6 Nicola Witter, KS1 Co-ordinator, S children enjoy the stories – I still have some reading am the Big, B High Oakham Primary School ad Cat at Turquoise level but they do not feel patronised or ‘infanty’. Mandy Watts, Deputy Head, Manorfield Primary and Nursery School 8 www.collinsbigcat.com www.collinsbigcat.com 9 Extensive teacher and assessment support Collins Big Cat Assessment and Support Guides offer practical Monitor children’s progress planning and teaching support, with book-by-book information and and collect evidence to ensure photocopiable activity sheets to help practice and extend literacy systematic, sustained objectives and support for writing. progression with FREE APP Support Packs for every band. Download them from www.collinsbigcat.com . Comprehensive APP Support to help you: Collect