The Sails Literacy Series develops:

• analytical thinking skills
• decoding and comprehension skills
• understanding of fiction and non-fiction
• understanding of purpose, structure and genre.

Big Books are ideal for Shared Reading and feature a cast of fun characters. Each Big Book is accompanied by an Audio CD, and small book versions are also available so students can read along. There are 12 Big Books at each level of Emergent, Early and Fluent as well as four Big Books at the Fluency Purple level.