Collins Big Cat has teamed up with award-winning educational developers, Shoo Fly, to create new cross-curricular e-Resources to accompany the Collins Big Cat reading series. Collins Big Cat e-Resources are rooted in the books, but extend learning to develop every aspect of pupils' literacy skills.

Collins Big Cat has teamed up with award-winning educational developers, Shoo Fly, to create new cross-curricular e-Resources to accompany the Collins Big Cat reading series. Collins Big Cat e-Resources are rooted in the books, but extend learning to develop every aspect of pupils' literacy skills.

e-Resources contain:

* a beautifully animated version of the book, including audio and music, to inspire children of all abilities
* a sound bank to develop speaking and listening skills
* up to ten interactive whiteboard activities and activity sheets to develop and extend learning
* Story Creator software, to help children convert reading into writing by using images from the book to create their own texts
* comprehensive teacher's notes.

These resources can be used on PCs and interactive whiteboards.

This is a paid-for download of the e-Resource.

In this non-fiction recount of a family trip to the dump, simple text combined with Ley Honor Roberts lively and inimitable cartoon-photo collage style brings environmental issues to life. The family's journey around the dump shows how different materials are sorted into different containers, ready for recycling. A diagram on pages 14 and 15 provides a chance to recap where each material was deposited.

This book is part of a book series called Collins Big Cat Eresources .

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

This book was published 2011 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.