Collins Big Cat - Pirate Party: Band 09/Gold

• Gold/Band 9 fiction books offer developing readers literary language and stories with distinctive characters.
• Text type – A humorous story.
• Pages 22 and 23 feature a recipe for pirate pie, with ingredients that would test the stomachs of even the most bloodthirsty pirates. This is a great starting point for further discussion and activities outside the reading session.
• Curriculum links – Geography: Going to the Seaside, Where in the world is Barnaby Bear?
• This story is paired with a non-fiction book on the same theme: How to be a Pirate, also by Scoular Anderson.
• 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.