COLLINS BIG CAT : MICHAEL ROSEN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BAND 16/SAPPHIRE: BAND 16/SAPPHIRE PHASE 7, BK. 10 PB

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level What s it like to be a writer, radio presenter and performer? Read all about Michael Rosen s life and find out what he was like as a boy, what he got up to at school and how he became a famous poet in this fascinating autobiography. Sapphire/Band 16 books books offer longer reads to develop children s sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically. Text type: An autobiography. The timeline on pages 54-55 track the major events of Michael Rosen’s life that led to him becoming a successful writer. Additional information retrieval devices such as a glossary and index can be evaluated for their usefulness as children develop critical reading skills Curriculum links: History: What we can learn about recent history from studying the life of a famous person. This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.