Sails Literacy Guided Reading Series

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Guided readers

• The student books in Sails Guided Reading are a mix of fiction and non-fiction readers that have been carefully structured and levelled from Emergent to Advanced Fluency.
• The series provides progressive vocabulary and supports student language, reading and writing development.
• Decoding and comprehension skills are developed and understanding of purpose, structure and text types is promoted.
• Each title is 16–24 pages in length and features timesaving guided reading notes on visual literacy, critical thinking, phonological patterns and language features.

Teacher resources

Each guided reading level includes:

• a mix of teacher’s resource CDs and books, outlining targets specific to the literacy stage of development
• a complete evaluation and assessment package with observation sheets, records of reading behaviour, checks on oral, written and visual language and phonological patterns
• blackline masters for assessment of reading skills, genres, phonological patterns and visual language.

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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.

MainSails offers fiction and non-fiction titles suitable for students aged 9–12+. Each title features:

• a stimulating magazine-style format
• unique Think Tank elements encouraging students to ask questions, make predictions and inferences, summarise key points, focus on language, and analyse literacy devices
• specific modelling of text types, including fantasy, mystery, reports, explanation and narratives.
• a 'Think About the Text' section that gets students making connections to their own personal experience, to similar or different texts, and to issues within the world

A teacher resource book and CD is available to support MainSails at each year level, containing guide notes and blackline masters.

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Shared readers are available in big book and small book versions for emergent, early, and fluent levels. They feature rich stories with rhythm, rhyme, magic, humour, and repetition.

• Big books are designed for large-group and whole-class teaching situations.
• Small books provide children the opportunity to enjoy storylines many times over at their own leisure.

All shared reading books are featured on a shared reading audio CD.

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Sailing Solo transitions students from guided to independent reading by:

• consolidating comprehension and analytical thinking skills
• offering titles suitable for both take-home reading and classroom use
• ensuring topics are contemporary and stimulating
• using fun full colour cartoons and images to entice readers.

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The Sails Take-Home Library features stimulating texts to support take-home reading programs at the Early level in Years 1 and 2.

Each book includes notes to support parents and careers in helping them strengthening the child's reading skills.

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Sails Literacy Charting Progress Kits help you assess students using engaging texts unique to these packages.

• The Emergent and Early kit features 18 benchmark books designed to gather data about a student’s reading ability across reading levels 1 to 15.
• The Fluency kit features 21 benchmark cards used to analyse higher comprehension strategies across reading levels 14 to 28.

The included teachers resource book provides:

• methods for supporting information gathering
• suggestions to improve students’ comprehension strategy skills
• records and assessment sheets.