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Collins Big Cat Independent, guided and whole-class reading
Offer more than 1,500 high-quality banded readers covering a wealth of genres and topics. Fiction titles include classics, Shakespeare retellings, graphic novels, modern and traditional tales, and poetry. Non-fiction titles include information texts, biographies and reports covering science, geography and history.
To the Moon and Back: The Story of Katherine Johnson
This is the remarkable story of Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who worked for the American Space Agency. She was part of the team that helped Neil Armstrong land on the Moon for the very first time.
Band 16 Sapphire books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.
Collins Big Cat Independent, guided and whole-class reading
Offer more than 1,500 high-quality banded readers covering a wealth of genres and topics. Fiction titles include classics, Shakespeare retellings, graphic novels, modern and traditional tales, and poetry. Non-fiction titles include information texts, biographies and reports covering science, geography and history.
To the Moon and Back: The Story of Katherine Johnson
This is the remarkable story of Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who worked for the American Space Agency. She was part of the team that helped Neil Armstrong land on the Moon for the very first time. She was an African American woman and had to fight against racism and sexism to do the job that she loved and was exceptionally good at.
Band 16 Sapphire books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.
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