Collins Big Cat has teamed up with award-winning educational developers, Shoo Fly, to create new cross-curricular e-Resources to accompany the Collins Big Cat reading series. Collins Big Cat e-Resources are rooted in the books, but extend learning to develop every aspect of pupils’ literacy skills.

Collins Big Cat has teamed up with award-winning educational developers, Shoo Fly, to create new cross-curricular e-Resources to accompany the Collins Big Cat reading series. Collins Big Cat e-Resources are rooted in the books, but extend learning to develop every aspect of pupils’ literacy skills.

e-Resources contain:

• a beautifully animated version of the book, including audio and music, to inspire children of all abilities• a sound bank to develop speaking and listening skills• up to ten interactive whiteboard activities and activity sheets to develop and extend learning• Story Creator software, to help children convert reading into writing by using images from the book to create their own texts• comprehensive teacher’s notes.

These resources can be used on PCs and interactive whiteboards.

In this non-fiction recount of a family trip to the dump, simple text combined with Ley Honor Roberts lively and inimitable cartoon-photo collage style brings environmental issues to life. The family's journey around the dump shows how different materials are sorted into different containers, ready for recycling. A diagram on pages 14 and 15 provides a chance to recap where each material was deposited.