Thumper

Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.


When Thumper the dinosaur jumps out of an egg, Fran and her mother give her a home. As she gets bigger it gets difficult to keep her in the house, so Mum finds a perfect new home for Thumper.


Yellow/Band 3 offers varied sentence structure and natural language.


The focus sounds in this book are: Adjacent consonants with short vowel phonemes


Pages 14 and 15 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.


Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.