Have you ever wanted to be a Tudor? Here's how to do it - in just twenty easy stages. Find out all about the Tudor monarchs, homes, food and much more in this funny historical non-fiction book.

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

* Text type - An information book.

* Reader/Response page with summary pictures to be used as a stimulus for further speaking, listening and writing opportunities.

* Additional information retrieval devices such as a glossary, index and monarch information summary pages can be evaluated for their usefulness as children develop critical reading skills.
This title is paired with an adventure story, Stowaway! set in Tudor times about a young boy who travels around the world with Sir Francis Drake.

*Curriculum links - History: What were the differences between the lives of rich and poor people in Tudor times?

* 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 2007 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.