Pat the Cat's Big Books are ideal for whole class shared reading with beginners. Humorous rhyming stories supported by bold and appealing illustrations provide a range of opportunities to cover aspects of text level word level and sentence level work. The flip-the-page format of the original small books has been retained allowing the whole class to understand that if they can read Pat they can read cat rat and lots of other simple words that follow the same CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) pattern. Children will quickly get the idea that they can create and recognize strings of rhyming CVC words simply by changing the initial consonant. Extension work can include changing both consonants to make other CVC words with a middle short "a" sound discussing the dialogue and punctuation in the speech bubbles and exploring the characters through role-play.

 

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 20 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Dorling Kindersley Ltd .

Jacqui Hawkins was born in 1947 in Oxford, she went to Goldsmiths College to study Graphic Design.