Collins Big Cat - Moving Out: Band 17/Diamond

• Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.
• A pros and cons list of moving to a New Town on pages 54 and 55 help children to analyse the decision making process.
• Text type: A story set in the past
• This book is paired with Hard Times, a non-fiction non-chronological report about growing up in the Victorial age.
• Curriculum links: History: How life in Britain has changed since 1948; Citizenship: Moving on, Choices
• 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.