From pigeons and elephants to parachuting dogs - millions of animals helped in both world wars. This non-fiction book, with fascinating photographs from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, focuses on the animals that were involved and their bravery in the face of battle.

* Collins Big Cat Progress builds confidence, helping struggling pupils not only to read, but to love reading
* Dual-banded books provide age-appropriate interest level material matched with a lower reading ability level
* Every book is levelled by reading expert Cliff Moon to ensure precise, systematic, measurable progression to help close the ability gap
* The books use a range of reading strategies: phonic, graphic, syntactic and contextual to build confident, accurate, fluent readers
* Designed to build speaking and listening skills, as well as reading skills, the books are highly visual and include incredible illustrations and photographs
* Every book has a Key Stage 2 look-and-feel to engage older pupils and avoid stigmatisation
* Topics are relevant for children in years 3-6 and connected to the curriculum and framework objectives for these years to support inclusion
* Progress titles contain a Reader Response page to encourage the pupil to respond to and recall what they have read. This offers an ideal opportunity to check comprehension
* Ideas for Reading, written by primary literacy expert Gill Howell are included in the back of every book to help you support the reading needs of each child
* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader

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

This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 years. 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. This book is aimed at children in primary school.

This book has been graded for interest at Collins Stage 17. 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 2012 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Jillian Powell is an experienced writer of children's fiction and non-fiction. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.