Supporting every child on their reading journey
Collins Big Cat is a Whole-school Graded Reading Programme Suitable for Infants to 6th class
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Expand the range of age-appropriate graded readers in your school library
Check out our overview of the Collins Big Cat series!
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Whole-school Levelled Reading Approach
Collins Big Cat is a literacy programme that provides complete support for primary reading. Children will foster a lifelong love of reading with hundreds of book-banded readers to choose from, featuring beautiful illustrations and stunning photography for every step of a child’s reading journey from bands Lilac to Pearl (reading ages 4-12)
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Teaching and Assessment Handbooks to Support Guided and Whole-class Teaching
These handbooks deliver engaging, whole-class, and independent reading sessions using a range of reading comprehension strategies. Along with targeted lesson plans, there are resource sheets (including printable worksheets) available for every Big Cat book along with formative and summative assessment opportunities.
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Over 100 Decodable Phonics Readers
Complete support for early reading in junior and senior infants through 60 fully decodable books and two comprehensive phonics teachers’ handbooks.
These decodable readers help a child practice and consolidate words and phonemes, model fluency, and check comprehension with the reading notes provided inside every Big Cat book.
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Hi/Lo Big Cat Progress Series
This series of 72 dual banded books with high-interest stories for students with lower vocabulary is designed to develop a child’s fluency and comprehension. Age-appropriate illustrations are supported by suitably levelled text to support and engage struggling readers.