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Big Cat bands and sets
Big Cat is levelled to match the Institute of Education book bands for guided reading and available in sets for each band. Browse books in each bands and order sets below.
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Lilac band

Wordless books for emergent readers.

Pink A band

Simple text supported by illustrations.

Pink B band

Simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actions.

Red A band

Predictable text combined with simple story development.

Red B band

Predictable text combined with simple story development.

Yellow band

More varied sentence structure and natural language.

Blue band

Longer, repeated patterns with sequential events.

Green band

Offers early readers less familiar, more complex language with varied characters.

Orange band

Featuring varied text and characters, with action sustained over several pages.

Turquoise band

Books with literary language and extended descriptions.

Purple band

Books that offer developing readers literary language.

Gold band

Offers developing readers literary language and stories with distinctive characters.

White band

Books using more complex sentences and figurative language.

Lime band

Featuring longer sentences and a greater use of literary language.

White & Lime + band

Books that will challenge your most able readers in year 2.

Copper band

Providing more complex plots and longer chapters that develop reading stamina.

Topaz band

Featuring longer and more demanding readers for children to investigate and evaluate.

Ruby band

Providing increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction.

Emerald band

Featuring a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography.

Sapphire band

Longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts that are more complex syntactically.

Diamond band

Offering books with more complex, underlying themes.

Pearl band

Books for fluent readers offering a complex, substantial text with challenging themes.

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