Collins Big Cat - The Football Shirt: Band 18/Pearl

Paperback

Ross has been saving for a football top of his favourite team for ages, but doesn’t think he’ll ever afford it. When he sees one pinned to a tree, commemorating the death of a young boy, he can’t resist taking it – but Ross gets more than he bargains for, and finds having the shirt comes at a dreadful price…

  • Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books.
  • Text type: A mystery story.
  • Curriculum links: Citizenship: Choices.
  • This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

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.

RRP: £7.75

ISBN

978-0-00-742829-8

Publication Date

04-01-2012

Format

Paperback

Pages

80 pages

Dimensions

148x210mm

Product Description

Ross has been saving for a football top of his favourite team for ages, but doesn’t think he’ll ever afford it. When he sees one pinned to a tree, commemorating the death of a young boy, he can’t resist taking it – but Ross gets more than he bargains for, and finds having the shirt comes at a dreadful price…

  • Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books.
  • Text type: A mystery story.
  • Curriculum links: Citizenship: Choices.
  • This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

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

Catherine MacPhail, Illustrated by Paul Fisher, Prepared for publication by Collins Big Cat