Cool Grinds - (Mainsails Series) (Papeback)
$13.50
Author: Jillian Sullivan
Illustrations: Raymond McGrath
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Format: Paperback
Pages: 32
Suitable: Upper Primary (Silver Level - Short Story)
Sails Literacy Series - developed by leading New Zealand educationalists and authors Jill Eggleton and Jo Windsor.
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 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.
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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.
