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This inspiring story follows England’s women’s football team, the Lionesses, on their dramatic and heart-stopping journey to win the UEFA Women’s EURO 2025 tournament. Written with young readers in mind, this narrative highlights key moments, player bravery, teamwork, and perseverance. It combines excitement, emotion, and real-world sports heroes to engage children — especially girls — who dream big and love sport.

What’s Included:

Full narrative text: A compelling retelling of England’s EURO 2025 campaign, featuring star players, pivotal matches, and the thrilling final with a penalty shootout climax.
Comprehension questions: A range of question types including retrieval, inference, vocabulary focus, and opinion, designed to develop close reading and critical thinking skills.
Creative writing prompts: Diary entries, speeches, chants, and personal reflections to foster imagination and empathy.
Discussion points: Thought-provoking questions to encourage classroom debate about bravery, teamwork, and resilience.
Learning Objectives:

Improve reading comprehension through engagement with a contemporary, motivational sports story.
Develop inference skills by reading between the lines and understanding character motivations.
Build vocabulary with contextual clues and discussion of figurative language.
Encourage empathy and personal expression through creative writing tasks.
Promote values such as teamwork, determination, and self-belief.
Why Use This Resource?

Connects literacy learning with current, real-world events and role models in women’s sport.
Supports engagement of reluctant readers by featuring a high-interest, inspirational topic.
Encourages positive gender representation and challenges stereotypes in sport.
Easy to adapt for individual, group, or whole-class work.
Great for use in literacy lessons, PSHE, or cross-curricular links with PE or history of sport.
Suggested Activities:

Reading aloud and paired reading for fluency.
Class or group discussions using the inference and opinion questions.
Writing diary entries or motivational messages inspired by characters.
Create and perform fan chants or cheers as a class project.
Use the vocabulary focus to explore figurative language and contextual meanings.