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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 Emergent Small Group Add-on Package are built around 40 fresh, new leveled books (half fiction, half nonfiction) ranging from Guided Reading Levels A through F 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 Emergent Small Group Add-on Package includes 40 books (1 each of 40 titles, 20 fiction and 20 nonfiction) and 1 Teachers’ Resource Book. |
- 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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