Meet Your Brain : Band 15/Emerald

Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency.Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read.Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading.Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available. Your brain is amazing! Find out how it affects everything that we do, even how we feel. Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts. Pages 46 and 47 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities. Kathryn Kendall Boucher is an editor and author, with a wealth of experience in educational and children’s publishing.She has a degree in English Literature from the University of Sheffield, where she also completed modules in philosophy and psychoanalysis.This led to a deep interest in human thought processes, emotions and brain development, and she has continued to learn about these subjects.This has helped Kathryn to become a calmer, kinder and more understanding person, and she hopes that this book will help young learners to understand themselves, and others, a little more too.