<p>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<br />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.</p><ul><li>Pink A/Band 1A books offer emergent readers very simple text supported by illustrations.</li><li>Text type – A patterned story with predictable structure.</li><li>The labelled flow diagram on pages 14 and 15 retells the story and allows the children to count the animals again.</li><li>This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.</li></ul><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>