MainSails 4 (Grades 7-9)

Discipline: Literacy

Grade(s): 7 - 9

Program Type: Leveled Reader

Delivery Method: Print

Imprint: Pearson New Zealand

MainSails 4 (Grades 7-9)

Each title:

  • Provides text to self, text to text and text to world opportunities
  • Supports investigation of literary devices that are essential for effective writing
  • Includes specific modeling of text types including reports, explanations, narrative fantasy and persuasive
  • Contains numerous opportunities to develop oral language

The teacher resource provides detailed lessons for the explicit instruction of skills and strategies such as:

  • Understanding inferencing
  • Summarizing and sequencing
  • Understanding cause and effect

View the Components Chart that includes each title and genre