Collins Big Cat – Guided Reading Handbook Pink to Red: Complete Teaching and Assessment Support

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.