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Format: Paperback – 32 Pages

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.