Hook readers and ignite their curiosity - over 850 levelled texts with bright, colourful, sophisticated designs.
The Sails Literacy Series is the perfect resource for shared, guided and independent reading and writing. The engaging visuals and content will motivate your students to read for pleasure and for information.
- Opportunities to develop critical thinking skills
- Unique focus on visual literacy
- Numerous texts forms
- Balanced, well-rounded language experiences
- Striking visuals and intriguing topics
- Handy teaching notes on inside cover
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Meet Spark Reading, a digital library designed for your K-6 Canadian classroom. With over 900 recognizable titles, Canadian and Indigenous content, and features to support your literacy goals, Spark will help you ignite a love of reading in your classroom.
First Wave
First Wave
The First Wave level introduces beginning readers to high-frequency words and phrases that are essential for reading. The 96 titles have a consistent structure that supports young readers as they move from simple captions to more complex structures. A unique feature of the First Wave books is the visual storyframes which provide a springboard for oral discussion and critical thinking.
Magenta
Magenta
The Magenta level has both fiction and nonfiction books, which use straightforward and meaningful language. The non-fiction books include an index to introduce and develop children's skills in accessing and retrieving information. Simple visual information is introduced for children to interpret - for example, speech bubbles, pictorial panels, simple maps, etc.
Magenta
Red, Yellow, Blue, Green
High frequency words from the emergent level are consolidated and new words are gradually introduced. Children continue to develop skills in the structure and use of language, while developing skills in accessing, interpreting and processing information. Each text has a visual focus (i.e. advertisements, flow charts, labels, maps, pictographs). There is a range of written genre so that children are exposed to a variety of writing styles in order to develop competency in their own writing.
Magenta
Red, Yellow, Blue, Green
High frequency words from the emergent level are consolidated and new words are gradually introduced. Children continue to develop skills in the structure and use of language, while developing skills in accessing, interpreting and processing information. Each text has a visual focus (i.e. advertisements, flow charts, labels, maps, pictographs). There is a range of written genre so that children are exposed to a variety of writing styles in order to develop competency in their own writing.
Magenta
Red, Yellow, Blue, Green
High frequency words from the emergent level are consolidated and new words are gradually introduced. Children continue to develop skills in the structure and use of language, while developing skills in accessing, interpreting and processing information. Each text has a visual focus (i.e. advertisements, flow charts, labels, maps, pictographs). There is a range of written genre so that children are exposed to a variety of writing styles in order to develop competency in their own writing.
Magenta
Blue Sailing Solo, Green Sailing Solo
The Sailing Solo books provide opportunities for children to practise the reading strategies introduced in the Guided Reading session. Each 24-page book features:
- Simple language structures
- Direct speech – impacted by colour so the flow and phasing is encouraged
- Non threatening manageable small chunks of text
- An introduction to characters/setting
- A interactive double page spread that reinforces skills and visual elements
- A word bank summary page at story end with picture links
- Funky and modern with comic/cartoon design elements
Magenta
Red, Yellow, Blue, Green
High frequency words from the emergent level are consolidated and new words are gradually introduced. Children continue to develop skills in the structure and use of language, while developing skills in accessing, interpreting and processing information. Each text has a visual focus (i.e. advertisements, flow charts, labels, maps, pictographs). There is a range of written genre so that children are exposed to a variety of writing styles in order to develop competency in their own writing.
Magenta
Blue Sailing Solo, Green Sailing Solo
The Sailing Solo books provide opportunities for children to practise the reading strategies introduced in the Guided Reading session. Each 24-page book features:
- Simple language structures
- Direct speech – impacted by colour so the flow and phasing is encouraged
- Non threatening manageable small chunks of text
- An introduction to characters/setting
- A interactive double page spread that reinforces skills and visual elements
- A word bank summary page at story end with picture links
- Funky and modern with comic/cartoon design elements
Magenta
Orange, Turquoise, Purple, Gold
Children continue to be challenged to think critically and apply comprehension and processing strategies to more complex texts. High frequency words introduced at the earlier levels stage are reinforced and more challenging interest words are incorporated. Children are introduced to the essential Text Forms of Narrative, Recount, Report and Explanation.
Magenta
Orange, Turquoise, Purple, Gold
Children continue to be challenged to think critically and apply comprehension and processing strategies to more complex texts. High frequency words introduced at the earlier levels stage are reinforced and more challenging interest words are incorporated. Children are introduced to the essential Text Forms of Narrative, Recount, Report and Explanation.
Magenta
Orange, Turquoise, Purple, Gold
Children continue to be challenged to think critically and apply comprehension and processing strategies to more complex texts. High frequency words introduced at the earlier levels stage are reinforced and more challenging interest words are incorporated. Children are introduced to the essential Text Forms of Narrative, Recount, Report and Explanation.
Magenta
Orange, Turquoise, Purple, Gold
Children continue to be challenged to think critically and apply comprehension and processing strategies to more complex texts. High frequency words introduced at the earlier levels stage are reinforced and more challenging interest words are incorporated. Children are introduced to the essential Text Forms of Narrative, Recount, Report and Explanation.
Magenta
Mainsails
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
- 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
Magenta
Mainsails
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
- 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
Magenta
Mainsails
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
- 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
Magenta
Mainsails
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
- 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
Magenta
Projectable Poetry Poster Packs
These CD-ROMs feature humorous, memorable poems to encourage a love of poetry. Through Sails Poetry students will:
- extend and enrich their vocabulary
- be exposed to the sight and sounds of language in a non-threatening way
- receive practice in fluency (flow, phrasing, pace)
- have their knowledge of print conventions, phonological patterns and phonic knowledge in context reinforced
Includes teaching notes and linemasters for printing poems so the students can do their own illustrations.
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