Collins Big Cat - In the Boat: Band 01A/Pink A

Who is in the boat? A hilarious counting story about a mouse with a boat taxi that reluctantly agrees to pick up an increasing number of animals as it floats downstream, before eventually
sinking under the weight to the seabed! Simple text counts the number of each type of animal, from one to six, as they enter the boat.

• Pink A/Band 1A books offer emergent readers very simple text supported by illustrations.
• Text type – A patterned story with predictable structure.
• The labelled flow diagram on pages 14 and 15 retells the story and allows the children to count the animals again.
• 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.