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Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.When Thumper the dinosaur jumps out of an egg, Fran and her mother give her a home. As she gets bigger it gets difficult to keep her in the house, so Mum finds a perfect new home for Thumper.Yellow/Band 3 offers varied sentence structure and natural language.The focus sounds in this book are: Adjacent consonants with short vowel phonemesPages 14 and 15 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics.When Thumper the dinosaur jumps out of an egg, Fran and her mother give her a home. As she gets bigger it gets difficult to keep her in the house, so Mum finds a perfect new home for Thumper.Pages 14 and 15 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

This fun-filled activity book is jam-packed with fantasticideas to help kids connect with nature and the outdoors!Created with the Royal Horticultural Society(RHS), the UK's leading gardening charity. Bursting with fun thingsto make and do, this activity book is a greatway to help kids explore nature in your very owngarden.Take a tour through your garden with your favourite dragon friends! Make fiery dragon-egg cookiesCreate a glowing leaf lanternGrow your own chillies These dragons are off to discover more about plants, trees andwildlife. The dragons can't wait to get exploring – and youcan join them! Filled with fun activities and gardening tipsto help you become an expert gardenerWith step-by-step activities, this is the perfectbook to enjoy nature as a familyEasy-to-understand instructions to grow yourown plants This wonderful activity book will inspire children witha love of nature.

When Luna washes up on a strange shore she is scared and lonely. She soon discovers there is beauty in her new land, and along the way makes unexpected friends. But will she ever feel at home in a place so different from the one she remembers?

When Luna washes up on a strange shore she is scared and lonely. She soon discovers there is beauty in her new land, and along the way makes unexpected friends. But will she ever feel at home in a place so different from the one she remembers?Winner of the Rubery Book Award for Children's Literature 2020.

Roman is a lone wanderer and the wild is his to explore. Yet despite his amazing adventures and fascinating discoveries, Roman is still searching for something. Is being alone really the only choice for a wanderer?