Collins Big Cat - The Pond: Band 01B/Pink B

• Pink B/ Band 1B books offer emergent readers simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actions.
• Text type – A simple non-fiction report.
• All of the creatures are repeated in a single labelled diagram of the pond on pages 14 and 15 giving children the opportunity to recount the information.
• This information book is paired with a story on the same theme: Fly Away Home by Shoo Rayner.
• This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery

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.