Big Cat – Royal Rap: Band 08

A humorous poem with one couplet on every monarch from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth the Second.

• Purple/ Band 8 books offer developing readers literary language, with some challenging vocabulary.

• Text type—a poem.

• Curriculum links—History: “Pupils should be taught about. . . events beyond living memory that are significant nationally.”

• A royal timeline on pages 22–23, showing dates on the throne of all monarchs, allows children to place the poem in context.