There were a lot of changes in Britain between the departure of the Romans in 410 and the Norman invasion in 1066. In this book, find out who ruled the many British kingdoms in that time, and what life was like for the ordinary people living on farms and in towns and villages.

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

* Text type: An information book

* Curriculum links: History

This book is part of a book series called Collins Big Cat .

This book has been graded for interest at 8-9 years. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. 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 2016 by HarperCollins Publishers .

J. M. Sertori is the author of Dirty Rotten Vikings, Unexplained: Monsters and the Little Book of Feng Shui. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.