• 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.