Travel the world and look at some of the most amazing buildings - inside and out! Find out how they're built, what they do and lots more fantastic facts in this exciting and very visual book. Each building is intricately illustrated, providing lots of detail to look at and talk about.
• Turquoise/Band 7 books offer literary language and extended descriptions, with longer sentences and a wide range of unfamiliar terms.
• Text type: An information book.
• A collage scene on pages 22 and 23 of all the buildings from the book allows children to recall the different features of each building.
• Additional retrieval devices such as a glossary and index can be evaluated for their usefulness as children develop critical reading skills.
• Curriculum links: Design and Technology: Homes; Geography: Passport to the world

What's that Building?: Band 07/Turquoise (Collins Big Cat)

Children's Books

PLATT, RICHARD

Studio, Pulsar

Arts, Music & Photography

Collins Educational

In 1665, London was a dangerous place in which to live. A plague had swept across London, and a quarter of the city’s population died. A year later, tragedy struck London again and the Great Fire of London destroyed two-thirds of the city. Richard Platt explores both events and how the city survived in this fascinating information book.
• Lime/Band 11 books have longer sentence structures and a greater use of literary language. • Text type: An information book • Curriculum links: History: How do we know about the great fire of London?

Plague and Fire: Band 11/Lime (Collins Big Cat)

Reference

Gibson, Barbara

Words, Language & Grammar

Travel the world and look at some of the most amazing buildings - inside and out! Find out how they're built, what they do and lots more fantastic facts in this exciting and very visual book. Each building is intricately illustrated, providing lots of detail to look at and talk about. • Turquoise/Band 7 books offer literary language and extended descriptions, with longer sentences and a wide range of unfamiliar terms. • Text type: An information book. • A collage scene on pages 22 and 23 of all the buildings from the book allows children to recall the different features of each building. • Additional retrieval devices such as a glossary and index can be evaluated for their usefulness as children develop critical reading skills. • Curriculum links: Design and Technology: Homes; Geography: Passport to the world

What's that Building? (Collins Big Cat)

Get an understanding of one of the world’s ancient civilizations, and find out all about their way of life, intriguing rituals, and bizarre sports in this fascinating account of how the Maya first established themselves more than 20,000 years ago in Central America, and their eventual demise. Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading program and longer chapter books.

Collins Big Cat ― The Mayans: Band 18/Pearl

History

Collins

<h2>Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level</h2> 1,100 years ago Baghdad was the world's biggest and finest city. Discover this glamorous, glorious desert city - its art, literature and learning - during the Islamic Golden Age. <ul> <li>Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.</li> <li>Text type - An information book.</li> <li>The book is organised into short chapters to help children practise the skills of locating and identifying important information.</li> <li>The glossary and index can be used to develop children's information retrieval skills further.</li> <li>Curriculum links - History</li> </ul>

Collins Big Cat – A History of Baghdad: Band 17/Diamond

Project X Origins: Dark Red+ Book band, Oxford Level 19: Fears and Frights: Mixed Pack of 5

Oxford University Press

Project X Origins: Dark Red+ Book band, Oxford Level 19: Fears and Frights: Class Pack of 30

Project X Origins: Dark Red+ Book Band, Oxford Level 19: Fears and Frights: Foolish Fears

Oxford University Press, USA

Young scientists get a real taste of the story behind the medicine as we examine the amazing practices used in medicine past and present. Readers will learn about the often painful and frequently distasteful medical practices that our ancestors employed such as using leeches, eating snailshells or body snatching, as well as those that are still used around the world today - who needs an anaesthetic anyway?! Includes alternative therapies and major medical discoveries that changed the face of medical practice.

Would You Believe...Cobwebs Stop Bleeding?

Young historians and chefs get a real taste of the stories behind food we eat as we examine the amazing peculiarities of international cuisine past and present. Readers will learn about the often disgusting yet utterly fascinating foods that our ancestors ate such as maggot cake or rottenfish, as well as those that are still eaten around the world today - grasshopper stew anyone? Includes food myths, eating taboos and how archaeologists discover what Neolithic man ate.

Would You Believe...Marzipan Contains Cyanide?

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