This story with a familiar setting is about Lenny's family who go to the local park to fly his new kite. Lenny takes great care to hold on to his kite, but then Mum has a turn. She holds on tightly too, but trips over the dog, and falls into the pond. The other children try to help, so they all arrive home soaking wet and muddy!
• Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language.
• Text Type - A story with a familiar setting.
• The storyboard on pages 14 and 15 provides an opportunity for children to retell the story in their own words.
• Curriculum links - Science: pushes and pulls.
• This story is paired with a non-fiction book on the same theme: The Wind by Monica Hughes (Band 3/Yellow).
• This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.

The New Kite (Collins Big Cat)

Children's Books

Sykes, Julie

Activities, Crafts & Games

Collins Educational

'There are sounds all around you…Which sounds do you like?' This is a simple non-fiction book about the wide variety of sounds we head and how they are made. The text is illustrated with lively photographs of children listening, and making noise! • Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns withsequential events and integrated literary and natural language. • Text type - An information book. • A pictorial index is included on pages 14 and 15, giving the children a chance to recap and discuss the text. • Curriculum links - Science: ourselves, sound and hearing. • This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.

Sounds: Band 04/Blue (Collins Big Cat)

Education & Reference

An engaging workbook for children learning English with the Big Cat series. These workbooks accompany the popular Collins Big Cat series. They enable children to practice and reinforce the target vocabulary and language structures presented in each corresponding Collins Big Cat reader through enjoyable puzzles, games and activities, as well as through more traditional comprehension exercises.Tracing, copying and eventually free-writing tasks build and develop children’s writing skills as they progress through the Bands, Pink A to Lime. A fun quiz to test understanding, and a reward certificate at the back of each Workbook, enable children to feel a sense of progress as they learn to read more confidently in English.

Sounds Workbook (Collins Big Cat)

An engaging workbook for children who are using the Big Cat series. These workbooks accompany the popular Collins Big Cat series. They enable children to practise and reinforce the target vocabulary and language structures presented in each corresponding Collins Big Cat reader through enjoyable puzzles, games and activities, as well as through more traditional comprehension exercises.Tracing, copying and eventually free-writing tasks build and develop children’s writing skills as they progress through the Bands, Pink A to Lime. A fun quiz to test understanding, and a reward certificate at the back of each Workbook, enable children to feel a sense of progress as they learn to read more confidently in English.

'There are sounds all around you…Which sounds do you like?' This is a simple non-fiction book about the wide variety of sounds we head and how they are made. The text is illustrated with lively photographs of children listening, and making noise! • Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns withsequential events and integrated literary and natural language. • Text type - An information book. • A pictorial index is included on pages 14 and 15, giving the children a chance to recap and discuss the text. • Curriculum links - Science: ourselves, sound and hearing.

Sounds (Collins Big Cat)

Pirate Small in Big Trouble

Oxford University Press

Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Fiction: Level 11 More Pack B: Jem Stone Genie - the Crash

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

In 'Carnival' Clare loves the canal boat which she learns to sail with her old neighbour, Max. When Max falls ill, Clare searches for the present that he left her on the boat, but his nephews are now in charge.

Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Fiction: Level 16: Carnival

OUP Oxford

This book is part of TreeTops Fiction, a structured reading programme providing juniors with stories they will love to read. Offering chapter books with full-colour illustrations, written by well-known authors, these stories are full of humour and have real boy appeal. They are tightly levelled allowing children to read books appropriate to their ability. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk. This book is also available as part of a mixed pack of 6 different books or a class pack of 36 books of the same Oxford Reading Tree level.

Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 11B: TreeTops: Gem Stone Genie - the Crash

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 15: TreeTops Classics: Pack (6 Books, 1 of Each Title)

Zucker, Jonny

Tomlinson, David

Gates, Susan

PRUE, SALLY

Warburton, Nick

Tregenza, Jo

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