The Apple Tree Dilemma – Mainsails Series

Format: Paperback – 32 Pages

When I was a kid, an old apple tree grew on the grass verge outside our house. In winter my brother and I would scrape off the lichen that grew in crusty patches on its gnarled trunk. We would swing on its branches like primates on a jungle vine. In spring we would make tracks with the blossoms and, in summer, we would sit in the green canopy of its leaves, sucking ice blocks and reading comics.

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.