Collins Big Cat - Star Boy’s Surprise: Band 08/Purple

• This deceptively simple science fiction story explores ideas of friendship and understanding.
• Text type – A fantasy story.
• Pictures taken through the Space Girl’s viewer are featured on pages 22 and 23, showing views from her rocket and snap shots of the birthday party providing lots of speaking and listening opportunities.
• Curriculum links – Citizenship: Taking part, Developing skills of communication and participation.
• This story is paired with a non-fiction book on a similar theme: Let’s go to Mars by Janice Marriott.
• This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.

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.