NORMAL WOMEN IN SPORT - BIG CAT 16 SAPPHIRE
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.
I bet you think of women in the "Olden Days" as princesses in towers, rather than super-strong sports women? Think again!
Women were at the top of most sports until about the 1800s - when long dresses and tight corsets slowed them down. They were told sport would make them ill and suddenly everyone forgot that women of all ages had run, fought, ridden, and played all kinds of sport - it was just missing from the history books. Women were fast runners and skilled boxers. They were playing football, cricket, golf, tennis and hockey and riding horses. Adapted from her best-selling, critically acclaimed series Normal Women, join multi-award-winning author Philippa Gregory as she tells the stories missing from the record. The truth is that MILLIONS of normal women have been doing extraordinary things FOR EVER, and one of them is succeeding in sport.
Sapphire Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.
Pages 54 and 55 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.
Edad recomendada: A partir de 10 años.
GREGORY PHILIPPA
Philippa Gregory, nacida el 9 de enero de 1954 en Nairobi, Kenia, es una reconocida escritora británica de ficción histórica. Estudió en la Universidad de Sussex y obtuvo un doctorado en literatura del siglo XVIII en la Universidad de Edimburgo. Su primera novela, Wideacre 1987 , fue un éxito internacional y marcó el inicio de una prolífica carrera. Su obra más famosa, The Other Boleyn Girl 2001 , ganó el premio a la Novela Romántica del Año y fue adaptada al cine. Considerada "la reina de la ficción histórica británica", Gregory ha escrito numerosas sagas sobre la dinastía Tudor y la Casa de York.
