The Ancient Mariner: Band 16/Sapphire

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A gripping and moving retelling of this poem written originally in the eighteenth century by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It tells the story of the Ancient Mariner and his adventures at sea, where tragedy strikes, more than once and he is ultimately saved - against the odds, teaching him the importance of humanity and humility.

Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children’s sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically. This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.