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Big Cat helps put the love back into reading, while scaffolding students through key reading skills and strategies with engaging leveled books across a wide range of genres and themes.- Provide students with access and exposure to a wide variety of text structures from recounts and reports, to plays, narratives, and much more.
- Improve comprehension through demonstration and practice of effective comprehension strategies across text types.
The instructional support materials in the Big Cat Fiction Package are built around 60 fresh, new leveled fiction books ranging from Guided Reading Levels A through P with the "just right" ingredients for your classroom: high student appeal, built-in teaching tips for comprehension-focused support, and an embedded reading response summary page to quickly check comprehension and improve speaking and listening skills. |
| Big Cat Fiction Book Pack (6-copy Set) includes 360 student books (6 each of 60 fiction titles, 20 titles from each of the 3 levels). |
- General classroom instruction/supplemental
- Small group (guided reading)
- Independent
- Intervention
- RtI – Response to Intervention
- Differentiated teaching and learning
- After School/Summer School
- Classroom Libraries/Bookrooms
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- Teacher support materials included with many packages (Assessment and Support Guide, model lessons, reproducible follow-up activities, and suggestions and tips for using each Big Cat component)
- Big Cat Getting Started DVD (included with Complete and Combo packages)
- Big Cat Implementation Training (online via webinar) - available upon request
- Big Cat Implementation Training (onsite with professional consultant) - available with fee upon request
Big Cat Read Aloud Video Clip- Big Cat Shared Reading Video Clip
- Big Cat Guided Reading Video Clip
Please visit our Video Archive for short video clips, presentations, and downloads. |
Use your STIMULUS Funds to supplement existing programs with Big Cat!
Race to the Top Funds - Contact us to customize a package to support your district's Race to the Top initiatives!
Federal Funding Opportunities: - Title I, part A (Improving Basic Programs)
- Title II, part A (Improving Teacher Quality State Grants Program)
- Title II, Part A (English Language Acquisition)
- Title IV, Part A (Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities)
- Title V, Part A (Innovative Programs)
- 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC)
- IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)
- Enhancing Education through Technology (EETT)
- Reading First
- Early Reading First
- Head Start
Download the complete Pacific Learning Funding Alignment Guide.
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