Football Fame: The Rio Ferdinand Story

Collins Soundbites is a revolutionary series of readers for 11-14 year olds with poor literacy skills. Football Fame has a reading age of 7-8 and around 35 words per page. It tells the true story of Rio Ferdinand's rise to fame and goes on to introduce students to some basic PE concepts. This pack contains six copies.


Soundbites is a graded series of readers aimed at reluctant readers in Key Stage 3, with accompanying teaching resources.


Soundbites has three progressive stages of readers. Football Fame is a stage 2 title with a reading age of 7-8) and around 35 words per page. Six different level 1 books are available in a pack (0003230848).


The book includes narrative-style text about the rise to fame of Rio Ferdinand, as well as basic PE concepts.


A variety of text types are used, such as autobiographies, biographies, journals, diaries, letters (personal and formal), travel writing, leaflets, reports, reviews, adverts, newspaper/magazine articles, tables.


Specialised, difficult or technical vocabulary is explained on the page, plus a one-page glossary at the end.


The topics covered address the KS3 English and PE curricula.


Photocopiable teaching resources, containing a range of literacy-boosting activities, are available in the Soundbites Bumper Pack (ISBN 0 00 323086 4) or individually (0007116926).