, Mix mscre BIG car ESC Fee cooreea e Published by Collins torenigainm apis en GPO Anlmpit tiarperColinabtshes cranny atic etna? oN e Haar ae See e SEL 9Gr wares co name | ‘onset compete Calis cog at ‘wwnw.collins.co.uk Design © HarperCollinsPublsters Limited 2011 Mustrations © 2011 james Cottell 2 Series editor Kay Hitt 1098765 ISBN 978.0.00.742194.7 Tony Mition asserts his moral right tobe identified as the author ofthis work All ight reserved, No part of ths publication may be reproduced, stored ina retrieval system, or ‘transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording oF otherwise, ‘without the prior written permission of the Publisher or a cence permitting resticted copying inthe United Kingdom issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Read, London WIT LP Brtsh Library Cataloguing in Publication Data ‘A catalogue record for this publlcation fs avalable from the British Library. Iustrator: James Cote Designer: Anna Stasinsko, anna@annastasinska demon co.uk Design manager: Nikki Kenwood, nikki@hakeonamatata co.uk Reading ideas author: Clare Dowtdall Acknowledgements Collins would like to thank the teachers and children atthe following schools who took part inthe evelopment of Collins Big Cat: ‘Chudleigh C.£ Community Primary Schoo! Henry Green Primary Schoo! John Betts Primary School Kingstone & Thruxton Primary School ‘Meleombe Primary School Offley Endowed Primary School The Echelford Primary School \Wasebridge Community Primary Schoo! ‘Whitehill Infant School Printed and bound by RR Donnelley APS (eb Cais ig Canes at www. colinsbigcat.comWritten by Tony Mitton Illustrated by James Cottell CollinsPuff the pup dug a pit.A lot was in it.I must dig it up. CBut it was just a pot.I can dumpBut a frog was in the pot. 8vp vu DD P n 3 £ HH frog. theBut the frog did not stop. 10It hopped to the pond.But not inIdeas for reading Written by Clare Dowdall, PhD Lecturer and Primary Literacy Consultant Learning objectives: read simple words by Curriculum links: Knowledge and sounding out and blending the phonemes Understanding of the World: Find out all through the word from left to right; about, and identify, some features of living read a range of familiar and common words things; Creative Development: Developing and simple sentences independently; retell imagination and imaginative play narratives in the correct sequence, drawing on the language patterns of stories; use language to imagine and recreate roles and Fast words: the, was experiences; show an understanding of the Word count: 67 elements of stories, such as main character, sequence of events, and openings Focus phonemes: u, ff, 9, 0, f,r.h Getting started Discuss what children know about puppies, e.g. who has had one; how do they behave? ‘© Revise the focus phoneme ff. Ask children to suggest words that contain this phoneme and model writing them, e.g. puff, huff, stuff. ‘© Read the title together. Add sound buttons and practise blending the sounds to read Puff the Pup. Read the blurb on the back cover together. Model blending sounds and rereading for fluency. Ask children to discuss what they think will happen in the story. Reading and responding * Walk through the book together, looking at the pictures and discussing the events. Dwell on p7 and model how to read the longer word d-u-m-p. © Ask children to read the book aloud from the beginning to the end, sounding out and blending to read the words. Move around the group, listening to them blending through words independently, praising their blending and fluent reading «Invite fast finishers to share the book with a partner, finding their favourite part in the story.Returning to the book ‘© Using the story map on pp14-15, ask children to describe the events of the story in order. Help children to follow the arrows to reach each new event. ‘© Ask children to describe how Puff is feeling at each stage in the sto excited when he finds the hole. Using sticky notes, scribe the children’: a thought bubble for Puff on each page. ‘© Ask each child to find a new word and model how they blended it to read. © Ask children to find words in the book containing the focus phonemes u and o. Make these words using magnetic letters. Checking and moving on © Research caring for puppies using the Internet. * Prepare a “puppy care" leaflet to teach people how to look after puppies. How to care for a puppy Take the puppy for Play with lots of walks. the puppy. Reading more Cat and Dog in a Mess (Red A/Band 2A) follows Cat and Dog as they cause havoc in the parkTUN Collins ae Puff the Pup dug a pit. @e A lot was in it! tr mln cas vonveoine coe OQ | 978-0-00-1 i a I ll lll 09g CNTs 78 47> S @ familiar setting vw.colinbigeat.com 00, @ 9