Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1-6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.

Nick and Kim are looking for treasure by digging in the garden. Do they find what they are looking for?

Chant and Chatter books are written especially for the Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds series at Book Band Pink. The narratives and non-fiction texts are formed through three short, rhythmic chants, allowing the demonstration and modelling of fluent reading and supporting children in learning Phase 1 of Letters and Sounds.

The focus sounds in this book are: /g/ /o/

Pages 14 and 15 contain a fun "I Spy" Letters and Sounds activity, which uses visual support to help children embed phonic knowledge.

Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

This book is part of a book series called Collins Big Cat Phonics For Letters And Sounds .

This book is at Book Band Pink. Pink is perfect for introducing fundamental reading concepts and skills to early readers. This band includes the first level of reading scheme books. These books are usually around 10 pages long, with up to 5 words per page. Pupil Targets (i) listen carefully to stories, (ii) read their own name, (iii) follow the words on a page in the right direction, (iv) tell a familiar story in their own words, (v) know that letters have different sounds, (vi) recognise high frequency words. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. 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 16 pages in this book. This book was published 2017 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Leilani Sparrow was born in South Africa to English parents. She spent most of her childhood reading in Hertfordshire and wanting to be a librarian. She still lives in Hertfordshire with her family and spends her time editing and writing books for children. Dan Taylor takes much of his inspiration from his love of 1950s and 1960s design. He drinks tea by the gallon and lives with a mischievous little dog called Bertie. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.