MainSails

The MainSails series is the ideal Guided Reading series to support your classroom reading program. A major feature of MainSails is the unique 'Think Tanks'. These allow teachers to focus on what's important in the text.

MainSails covers
MainSails covers

Students need to know how language works, how to analyse it and how to use it themselves. The innovative 'Think Tanks' guide students and get them thinking about the text and how it works.

The Think Tanks allow students to:
  • ask questions
  • make predictions
  • make inferences
  • summarise key points
  • focus on language
  • analyse literacy devices.
Use MainSails to extend the comprehension skills of your students. Students are encouraged to think more broadly about different genres and how they work.
MainSails covers
MainSails covers

Another feature of MainSails is the 'Think About the Text' section and the 'Text Form Explanation'. The 'Think About the Text' sections get students to relate the texts to:

  • their own personal experience
    - 'Text to Self'
  • similar or different texts
    - 'Text to Texts'
  • issues within the world today
    - 'Text to World'.
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