Collins Big Cat Guided Reading Handbooks provide a continuous programme of teaching and assessment that take every reader from phonics to fluency.

* Detailed support for both collaborative guided reading sessions and independent sessions for every Big Cat book.

* Supports practice of reading comprehension strategies through focused, targeted lesson plans and resource sheets, ensuring every pupil reaches age-related expectations.

* Includes advice for demonstration and modelling in every lesson plan, supporting pupils in developing key skills such as inference and deduction from the start.

* Vocabulary Boost sessions for every book to extend pupils' expressive and receptive vocabulary.

* Formative and summative assessment opportunities to fully assess pupil progress in reading.

* Matches to the current programmes of study for English, Science, History and Geography.

* Supporting resource sheets and editable lesson plans available at collins.co.uk

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

This book has been graded for interest at 8-10 years. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 520 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Gill Matthews is a literacy consultant and writer, and has been series editor for several major literary programmes (including Literacy World and Rigby Dimensions) and series consultant for publishers including Scholastic, Hodder & Stoughton, Franklin Watts and Evans. She was heavily involved in the development of the non-fiction element of the National Literacy Strategy for teachers, and is a leading advocate for the need for non-fiction in literacy teaching. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Stephanie Austwick has over 30 years' experience teaching in primary schools and as an adviser writing and delivering professional development for teachers.