Bees!: Band 02B/Red B

by Mio Debnam

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. Bees are an important part of our lives. Find out how they communicate with each other and what they do to keep cool on hot days in this photographic information book. Red B/ Band 2B offers emergent readers simple but varied text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development and a satisfying conclusion. The focus sounds in this book /oo/ /oo/ /er/ /or/ /ar/ /igh/ /air/ 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.

16 pages, Paperback

Published June 16, 2021

About the author

Mio Debnam is currently working as a writer/editor, having ‘retired’ from the world of journalism, where she worked as the Editor in Chief of two daily children’s newspapers for several years. Over the years, she has had stories and articles for both adults and children published, as well as a middle grade fantasy novel, four picture books, and several educational readers. She's also the author of a new series of guidebooks for kids - kidsGo! NYC/London/Hong Kong/Sydney/Bali and Phuket will be published in June 2011 by Haven Books.

Mio started on her present career path early, editing and writing stories for school and university newspapers; getting her hands inky learning how to print the old-fashioned way. After a decade working in the financial markets in London and Hong Kong, she returned to her first love and has been working with words ever since.

To get inspiration for her writing, and to keep up with ‘what’s hot’, Mio has become expert at eavesdropping on her children’s conversations, as well as those she encounters at school visits and creative writing workshops!