The Train Under Your Feet: Band 07 Turquoise/Band 14 Ruby
, Interest level: Collins Stage 14Key stage: Key Stage 2, Key Stage 1
No. of pages 24
Cities all over the world have an underground network of trains running right beneath our feet, helping the public to travel around quickly and safely. But how did these underground networks begin, and how were they built? Find out the fascinating history of underground trains in this non-fiction book by Richard Platt.
* 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 non-fiction book
* Curriculum links: History; Geography
* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
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 has been graded for interest at Collins Stage 14. 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 24 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by HarperCollins Publishers .
Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Richard Platt is a renowned non-fiction writer, whose previous titles include Pirate Diary which won the 2002 Kate Greenaway Medal. To visit Richard's website click here
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.
