So you want to be a Roman? Here is everything you need to know - in 20 easy stages. From the battle ground to building roads - find out the REAL facts to Roman living in this humorous non-fiction information book from Scoular Anderson.

* Ruby/Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction.

* Text type: An information book.

* A gallery of the things the Romans did that changed the way we live on pages 46-47 enables children to recap the main features left over from Roman times.

* 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: Whay have people invaded and settled in Britain in the past - a Roman case study.

* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

This book features in the following series: Collins Big Cat, Ruby Series .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme has multiple levels. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Scoular Anderson is a popular author/illustrator whose previous books on our list include the very successful MY FIRST JOKE BOOK. He lives in Argyll, Scotland. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Jonathan was born in 1965, the son of a rig fitter and a primary school teacher. He first developed his skills as a writer and illustrator while studying architecture, illustrating poems and lyrics that he had written. After leaving college, he worked as an architect for several years, before pursuing a career in children's books. In addition to writing books such as Bringing Down the Moon, and Ruby Flew Too, he also paper-engineers pop-up books.