No. of pages 32
This adventure-filled graphic novel retells the famous story of Lemuel Gulliver, as he is shipwrecked and wakes up on the island of Lilliput.
* Collins Big Cat Progress books are specifically designed for children at Key Stage 2 who have a Key Stage 1 reading level, giving them age-appropriate texts that they can read, building their confidence and fostering positive attitudes towards reading.
* Text type: A graphic novel in the past
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This book is part of a book series called Collins Big Cat Progress .
This book is at the following key stages: Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2 . A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. KS1 covers school years 1 and 2, and ages 5-7 years. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 years. This book is aimed at children in primary school.
This book has been graded for interest at Collins Stage 17. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme has multiple levels. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.
There are 32 pages in this book. This is a comic book/graphic novel. This book was published 2014 by HarperCollins Publishers .
Andrew Matthews is a celebrated children's author, who has written over fifty books and has twice been nominated for the Smarties prize. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Jonathan was born in 1965, the son of a rig fitter and a primary school teacher. He first developed his skills as a writer and illustrator while studying architecture, illustrating poems and lyrics that he had written. After leaving college, he worked as an architect for several years, before pursuing a career in children's books. In addition to writing books such as Bringing Down the Moon, and Ruby Flew Too, he also paper-engineers pop-up books.
This book contains the following story:
Gulliver's Travels
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour.
This book is in the following series:
Collins Big Cat Progress
Collins Big Cat Progress is a hilo reading scheme offering books with high interest at relatively low reading ability levels. The books are specifically designed for children at Key Stage 2 (ages 7-11 years) who have a Key Stage 1 (age 5-7 years) reading level, offering age-appropriate texts that they can read, building their confidence and fostering positive attitudes towards reading. Each title is assigned 2 levels: an interest level and a reading level. The format ranges from manga and graphic novels to non-fiction. Since 70% of struggling readers are boys, Collins Big Cat Progress helps to reach every boy with male protagonists and topic and themes that appeal to boys.
This book features the following character:
Lemuel Gulliver
This book features the character Lemuel Gulliver.
