Teach Primary Issue 19.5

Celebrating 20 years of COLLINS BIG CAT INSIDE THIS SECTION 44 The power of books Original stories and natural language have helped to make Big Cat the enduringly effective reading programme it is today 47 Onwards and upwards Keep the reading spark alive through the primary-secondary transition with the right books at the right time Raising lifelong readers First published in 2005, Big Cat has become a multi award-winning, market leading reading programme that champions the importance of reading in schools. It has: • 2,000+ fiction and non-fiction books in print, featuring work by more than 1,000 authors and illustrators • been used in more than 12,000 UK schools and hundreds more around the world • supported 2 million children every year to become fluent readers T EACH PR I MARY I N PARTNERSH I P W I TH Illustration © Irma Ruggiero ( The Dragon in the Sewer , Collins Big Cat) www.teachwire.net | 41