Handbook for the IB PYP

This guide introduces Big Cat for the IB PYP and contains information on each of the collections, the reading levels and activity ideas.


Collins Big Cat is a whole-school programme that provides complete support for primary reading used in thousands of schools in more than 100 countries around the world.




Gives helpful tips on how to identify the right book for each student, ideas for pre-reading activities to spark students' curiosity through inquiry-led approaches, as well as recommendations for follow-up and assessment.
Provides an overview of titles in the collections, containing a wide range of creative and informative fiction and non-fiction titles chosen to generate enthusiasm and curiosity, helping students to develop knowledge and understanding of themselves, each other, their communities and the wider world.
Shows how Big Cat readers can be embedded into your PYP classroom and offers suggestions of how to use the books according to the transdisciplinary themes.
Offers a range of reading levels to allow maximum flexibility for use with learners whose first language isn't English.
Encourages pertinent questions and emphasises the importance of listening to the views of others across a range of contexts from the personal to the global, always with international mindedness at the heart.