Merchant Of Venice Band 16sapphire By Jon Mayhew

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right levelGet acquainted with Shakespeare’s classic tale of greed and revenge, in this light-hearted and amusing retelling. Bassanio is overjoyed when he finally gets to marry Portia. But, his happiness is short-lived when he is forced to defend his dear friend Antonio, who’s in trouble with an old merchant – intent on getting his pound of flesh.Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children''s sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.Text type: Fiction from our literary heritageCurriculum links: English: fiction from the English literary heritageThis book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.