Big Cat – The Black Dog: Band 16

Annie, George and Jed are on a school camping trip, and their team hasn’t been doing very well in the activities they’ve been set. There is one final task – an orienteering exercise in the nearby woods – and they’re determined to win. But will their differences in opinion hold them back, and what is the howl they’ve heard deep in the woods?

• Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children’s sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.

• Text type: A mystery story

• Curriculum links: Citizenship