<p>These reading activities are based on Big Cat Collins reading books and are Gold Level. There are 18 reading activities in all, and they focus on a range of reading skills including retrieval, inference and prediction. They also encourage children to empathise with the characters and to use the features of Non Fiction texts to locate the information.</p>

<code>This resource includes reading activites for 20 books based on Collins Big Cats Orange Level books. Some of the books have 2 or 3 differentiated activities. The reading activities incorporate various reading skills including retrieval, prediction, inference and empathy. They challenge the reader to think carefully about what they read, assess their understanding and encourage them to use a range of strategies to answer the questions. </code>

<code>This resource includes 14 reading activites based on Collins Big Cats White Level books. The reading activities incorporate various reading skills including retrieval, prediction, inference and empathy. They challenge the reader to think carefully about what they read, assess their understanding and encourage them to use a range of strategies to answer the questions. </code>

<code>This resource includes 15 reading activites based on Collins Big Cats Copper Level books. The reading activities incorporate various reading skills including retrieval, prediction, inference and empathy. They challenge the reader to think carefully about what they read, assess their understanding and encourage them to use a range of strategies to answer the questions. </code>

<p>This activity can be used as an introduction to a Literacy lesson or as a morning activity. Children look through the passage and find the mistakes. They are the doctor and they are helping the sick sentences. There are a variety of errors including spelling, grammar and punctuation. Children can list the mistakes or write out the short passage and highlight the errors.</p>

<code>This resource includes 10 reading activites based on Collins Big Cats Ruby Level books. The reading activities incorporate various reading skills including retrieval, prediction, inference and empathy. They challenge the reader to think carefully about what they read, assess their understanding and encourage them to use a range of strategies to answer the questions. </code>

<code>This resource includes 13 reading activites based on Collins Big Cats Topaz Level books. The reading activities incorporate various reading skills including retrieval, prediction, inference and empathy. They challenge the reader to think carefully about what they read, assess their understanding and encourage them to use a range of strategies to answer the questions. </code>

<p>A morning activity where children make as many words as possible from letters organised in a circlular shape. Great for spelling, thinking skills and a bit of competiton!</p>

<p>A morning activity which encourages children to use a clue to guess a word and then decide on the order of letters to spell the word.</p>

<p>A fun morning maths activity or to use during a focus on hundred square work. For each colour, the children work out which numbers are missing. They then add the missing numbers and then subtract the smallest from the biggest. The colours are differentiated with blue being easiest, then red and green being the most difficult. Children can complete all or some of the colours. Answers are included for each slide.</p>

<p>This is a maths activity to practise using a range of strategies. Children are in two teams and play against each other, two at a time. The questions in the PP are differentiated so that the black numbers are more challenging and the red ones easier. Can be played using a buzzer and the first to buzz gets to answer.</p>

<p>This could be used a starter a activity in Literacy or a morning activity. Children use the letters to make as many words as possible. Can be played for fun or made competitive by giving points for length of words or trying to get more words each time it is played. Homophones often come up in this activity so can be a beneficial way to incidentally revise some spelling rules.</p>

<p>Mental Maths/morning activity - children make the target number, only using the numbers provided and any operations. All numbers do not need to be used but no number can be used twice. This would be suitable for Year 2 (Red number) and Year 3 (Blue number) or to differentiate Year 3 children.</p>