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Sam the big, bad cat isn’t feeling well. Tom wants to take him to the vet. Sam doesn’t want to go, and finds a variety of hiding places to escape. Tom pursues him, getting more and more bedraggled in the process. Finally Tom goes to bed, leaving Sam – who is feeling much better – to enjoy a snack. Yellow level/ Band 3 books offer early readers varied sentence structure and natural language.Text type – A story with a familiar setting.A storyboard on pages 14 and 15 reveals all of Sam’s hiding places in a pictorial summary of the day, providing the opportunity to recap the story.Curriculum links – Citizenship: animals and us.This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Collins Arabic Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows children to build up their reading knowledge of Arabic step by step.Level 9 books are similar in complexity to level 8, with strong patterns and similar events and episodes. Non-fiction titles use non-fiction tools – including signs, labels, captions and diagrams – where necessary. Single-word spacing is used from level 9 upwards. In addition, very high-frequency words appear consistently without vowel markings. These features will help the students get used to the traditional norms of printed Arabic.Kishkish the big, bad cat isn’t feeling well. Basil wants to take him to the vet. Kishkish doesn’t want to go, and finds a variety of hiding places to escape. Basil pursues him, getting more and more bedraggled in the process. Finally Basil goes to bed, leaving Kishkish – who is feeling much better – to enjoy a snack.The humorous illustrations in this funny story show clearly show the mayhem caused by the big, bad Kishkish and provide lots of points for discussion. A storyboard at the end recaps the story.

This title is part of Bug Club, the first whole-school reading programme that joins books with an online reading world to teach today's children to read. In this Purple-B level Pete's Pet Shop book: The wilful princess wants a unicorn, so her father, the king, asks Pete to find one. Pete advertises but is not fooled by a trickster who tries to sell him a donkey. Sally takes her unicorn to the princess. The unicorn is not impressed with the princess’s tantrums, so Sally teaches her how to look after it and how to become a real friend.

This title is part of Bug Club, the first whole-school reading programme that joins books with an online reading world to teach today's children to read. In this Turquoise-B level Pete's Pet Shop book: Pete wants a job, but unfortunately everything he tries ends in disaster. When animals start appearing on his doorstep looking for a home, Pete lets them in. Before long Pete’s house is full of weird and wonderful creatures!

This title is part of Bug Club, the first whole-school reading programme that joins books with an online reading world to teach today's children to read. In this Gold-A level Pete's Pet Shop book: Pete cannot find a suitable owner for the smelly baby dragon for sale in his Peculiar Pet Shop until one day an old witch comes into the shop. The witch wants to buy a fluffy cat but unsuspectingly leaves the pet shop with the smelly dragon!

This title is part of Bug Club, the first whole-school reading programme that joins books with an online reading world to teach today's children to read. In this Purple-A level Pete's Pet Shop book: Mrs Muddyboot needs a new jumper. Unfortunately she has lost her glasses so, instead of going into the clothes shop, she ends up in Pete’s Peculiar Pet Shop. She is offered various jumping animals and when she finally finds her glasses she realises her mistake. After buying her jumper she returns to buy the jumping animals.

Pete wants a job, but unfortunately everything he tries ends in disaster. When animals start appearing on his doorstep looking for a home, Pete lets them in. Before long Pete's house is full of weird and wonderful creatures. Pete has so many animals he is able to open a Pet Shop. Just the job for Pete!

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 6-7 (Year 2) Book band: Turquoise B Phonics phase: 6

 

Mrs Muddyboot needs a new jumper. Unfortunately she has lost her glasses so, instead of going into the clothes shop, she ends up in Pete's Peculiar Pet Shop. She is offered various jumping animals and when she finally finds her glasses she realises her mistake. After buying her jumper she returns to buy the jumping animals

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 6-7 (Year 2) Book band: Purple A Phonics phase: 6

 

The wilful princess wants a unicorn, so her father, the king, asks Pete to find one. Pete advertises but is not fooled by a trickster who tries to sell him a donkey. Sally takes her unicorn to the princess. The unicorn is not impressed with the princess's tantrums, so Sally teaches her how to look after it and how to become a real friend.

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 6-7 (Year 2) Book band: Purple B Phonics phase: 6

 

Pete cannot find a suitable owner for the smelly baby dragon for sale in his Peculiar Pet Shop until one day an old witch comes into the shop. The witch wants to buy a fluffy cat but unsuspectingly leaves the pet shop with the smelly dragon. It becomes her best pet ever.

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 6-7 (Year 2) Book band: Gold A Phonics phase: N/A

 

Interest ages: 5-7  Level: KS1   Subject: reading In this non-decodable, non-fiction Reading Corner book, navigate your way around the zoo using a compass and learn about lots of different animals on the way. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools  A Bug Club Reading Corner book designed for reading for pleasure Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence  Suitable for children aged 5-7 This title is part of Pearson's Bug Club, a reading programme used in over 3500 schools. Reading Corner books are designed to help children to develop a love of reading through reading for pleasure.  For more Bug Club books and learn at home resources, search for Bug Club.

Highlighting the role of precontact Indigenous women in building and transforming Mississippian cultureThis volume highlights how women were powerful farmers, economic decision-makers, spiritual leaders, and agents of social integration in the diverse societies of the Mississippian world, which spanned the present-day United States South to the Midwest before the seventeenth century. While Mississippian societies are some of the most well-researched pre-European contact societies on the continent, little attention has been dedicated specifically to Mississippian women. These chapters offer new insights into the vital role women played within their communities, an approach directly informed by the powerful position of American Indian women within contemporary American Indian communities.Contributors examine themes such as identity, labor, grieving, cooking, craft production, spatial organization, prestige, morbidity, kinship, and fertility. Case studies include sites throughout the Mississippian world, ranging from Illinois to Florida, including Cahokia and Moundville. Mississippian Women is the first volume to focus solely on the political, social, and economic power of women during this period, linking their actions in building their culture before European colonialism with the work of Indigenous women in the region today.A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Serie