Publisher's Synopsis
MainSails gives your students the inside knowledge on how language works, how to analyse it and how to apply it to a variety of situations. Each title features:
- a stimulating magazine-style format and innovative teaching elements
- unique Think Tank elements encouraging interaction with the text
- investigations of literacy devices that are essential for effective writing
- specific modelling of text types, including fantasy, mystery, reports, explanation and narratives.
MainSails is ideal for:
- developing students' oral reading and comprehension skills
- Guided Reading and Reciprocal Reading
- supporting students as they develop their own writing style
- explicitly teaching comprehension skills including summarising, sequencing, understanding inferences and understanding cause and effect.
This book is classified as Reading Level 30+ / Fountas and Pinnell Level V-Z. Visit our Levelled readers page for further information on reading levels.
