The Railway Revolution - Band 16/Sapphire

Build your child-s reading confidence at home with books at the right levelIn 1804 the first steam train set out on a nine mile journey. Within 50 years, there were 6,000 miles of railway across the country. Discover who was behind this revolution and how it transformed Victorian England.Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children''s sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.Text type: an information book.Curriculum links: history, geographyIdeas for reading at the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.