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This Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds Handbook provides full support for integrating the Big Cat series into your phonic teaching, including: Targeted lesson plans that guide practice of reading comprehension strategies and vocabulary development, ensuring every pupil reaches age-related expectations. Advice for demonstration and modelling, supporting pupils in developing fluency and correct pronunciation from the start. Engaging phonic activities and resource sheets allow further exploration of every phoneme and grapheme in Letters and Sounds in the context of each Big Cat book. Support for using every Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds book in a phonics reading session. Formative and summative assessment opportunities to fully assess pupil progress in phonic learning.
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Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features high-quality, exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire young readers. The books are fully aligned with Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain reading notes inside every book to get the most out of a reading session.
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Authors: Emily Guille-Marrett and Charlotte Raby
Collins Big Cat Phonics Handbook: Lilac to Yellow 978-0-00-826421-5
ISBN 978-0-00-826420-8
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Big Cat Phonics assessment Use the Big Cat Phonics assessments to work out which band of book each child should be reading. Instructional reading level is at 90% word accuracy. This is the correct level of challenge for children when they are being taught to read and when they are practising the phonemes and graphemes they already know. Note: Reading at home: Independent reading level should be at 95% word accuracy, so that children are successful when they are reading without an adult’s support. Of course, this doesn’t mean that parents and carers cannot read and share a wide range of picture books with their child at home. Indeed, this is essential for developing a love of literature and learning a wide range of skills, such as developing a rich vocabulary.
Teacher instructions: termly assessments • Use these assessments every six weeks to check children’s progress. • Start the assessment at the level the child was secure at the last time they were assessed. Do not go back to the beginning. • Use the grouping grid on page 47 to work out which book band is appropriate for each child. • The grouping grid also has guidance on which graphemes to teach at each band of Big Cat Phonics.
a b-a-t bat
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Tick each grapheme or word that is read correctly. Circle any word or part of a word that is read incorrectly. Say the sounds. Ask the child to repeat the sounds and blend the word. It is acceptable if a child automatically blends the word without sounding out.
Ask the child to read each sound in order and blend them to read. It is acceptable if a child automatically blends the word without sounding out.
Tell the child that these are nonsense or alien words. They will not make sense! Ask the child to read each sound in order and blend them to read.
Ask the child to read the words without blending. Tell them to say the sounds in their head before reading. If they cannot read the word without blending, draw a wavy line above the word.
Assessing fluency in Orange and Turquoise • Use the fluency extracts to assess the child’s reading speed in words per minute.
Marking the text • • • • •
Tick each word the child reads accurately. Circle any words the child misses out. Write in any additional words the child says. Put a wavy line above any words the child sounds out. Write the number of correctly read words onto the sheet. This is the number of words the child can read per minute.
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Term 1 teacher assessment sheet
Student name:
Class:
Date:
Book Band: Yellow/Band 3 ow
oi
ear
air
ure
Review graphemes
ur
Sound out and blend
turn
fear
crack
cow
Read without sounding (HFW) this
then
down
look
Alien words
scresh
prib
bright
green
er
chair
spring
join
sure
list
crat
Book Band: Blue/Band 4 Sound out and blend
Read without sounding (HFW) went Alien words
from
spoilt just
plear
spaim
spear
boast
train
frighten
groom
help
cloig
Book Band: Green/Band 5 New graphemes
a-e
Sound out and blend
note grow
i-e
o-e
shine mind
u-e
ay
huge
snake
Read without sounding (HFW) about
made
here
Alien words
cruem
snome
abayl
ue
oy
au
player
blue
ir
ow
i
spray
haul
third
put
Book Band: Orange/Band 6 New graphemes
e-e
se
Sound out and blend
donkey house
Alien words
phokey
eigh very photo
wh
ph
ge
judge gem fly school
neight
tch
these
dge white
ey hutch
y
g
ch
range
sleigh
wheme
Reading fluency: words per minute* Book Band: Turquoise/Band 7 New graphemes
kn
wr
si
Sound out and blend
wrestle
know
Alien words
kneag
gnimb
zh
gn
treasure
ci
ti
caution
mb social
climb
sign
mission
placial
Reading fluency: words per minute* *see grouping grid 26
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Term 1 student assessment sheet – part 1
Student name:
Book Band: Yellow/Band 3
a b
Class:
Date:
ur ow oi ear air ure er turn fear crack cow chair spring join sure list this then down look
Book Band: Blue/Band 4
scresh prib crat b
went from just help spaim plear cloig a
Book Band: Green/Band 5
bright green spoilt spear boast train frighten groom
b
a-e i-e o-e u-e ay ue oy au ir ow i note shine huge snake player blue spray haul third grow mind about made here put abayl cruem snome
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Big Cat Phonics assessment
Grouping grid Band
Children are ready to read the books at this band when they can:
Teach these sounds to prepare for the next band:
Blue
Sound out and blend at least six words.
All alternate vowel graphemes (see Scope and Sequence: Green)
Reading without blending three high frequency words. Sound out and blend at least two alien words. Green
Read without hesitation: a-e alternate vowel graphemes.
i-e
o-e
u-e and other
/ee/ e-e, ey, –y /igh/ –y
Sound out and blend at least nine words.
/ai/ eigh
Reading without blending three high frequency words.
/ch/ tch, t /j/ g, dge, ge
Sound out and blend at least two alien words.
/c/ ch /z/ se /s/ se /f/ ph /w/ wh Orange
Read without hesitation: e-e se tch dge ey –y g ch
eigh
wh
ph
ge
silent letters: kn, wr, gn, mb /sh/ si, ci, ti /zh/ as in vision measure
Sound out and blend at least ten words. Sound out and blend at least two alien words. Reading fluency: at least 60+ words per minute. Turquoise
Read without hesitation: kn ti mb
wr
si
su
gn
ci
A wide range of suffixes
Sound out and blend at least six words. Sound out and blend at least two alien words. Reading fluency: at least 70+ words per minute.
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