Collins Big Cat Progress — TOP SECRET: Band 03 Yellow/Band 16 Sapphire ISBN: 9780007428755

During World War II, many spies were dropped from Britain into France to help fight the Nazis. One of them was a woman called Christine Granville, who risked her life to save her comrades. Follow her incredible true story is this beautifully illustrated graphic novel by award-winning authors Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom. • Collins Big Cat Progress builds confidence, helping struggling pupils not only to read, but to love reading • Dual-banded books provide age-appropriate interest level material matched with a lower reading ability level • Every book is levelled by reading expert Cliff Moon to ensure precise, systematic, measurable progression to help close the ability gap • The books use a range of reading strategies: phonic, graphic, syntactic and contextual to build confident, accurate, fluent readers • Designed to build speaking and listening skills, as well as reading skills, the books are highly visual and include incredible illustrations and photographs • Every book has a Key Stage 2 look-and-feel to engage older pupils and avoid stigmatisation • Topics are relevant for children in years 3-6 and connected to the curriculum and framework objectives for these years to support inclusion • Progress titles contain a Reader Response page to encourage the pupil to respond to and recall what they have read. This offers an ideal opportunity to check comprehension • Ideas for Reading, written by primary literacy expert Gill Howell are included in the back of every book to help you support the reading needs of each child • This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.