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.


Flora the chicken is an aspiring reporter and looking for a big scoop for the newspaper. Will she find one in the chicken coop, and what is that unusual-looking egg in the corner doing?


Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language.


This book focuses on adjacent consonants with long vowel phonemes.


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 Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

Illustrated by: Stephen Stone
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