The Incredible Life of Sir David Attenborough: Band 16/Sapphire

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level

David Attenborough has dedicated his life to nature. Through his television programmes he has brought amazing wildlife into our homes and helped us to understand more about the world. Find out all about his incredible life.

Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children’s sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically. Text type - An information book The book is organised into short chapters to help children practise the skills of locating and identifying important information. The glossary and index can be used to develop children’s information retrieval skills further. Curriculum links - Science