Reading Level: 8; Colour Wheel: Yellow. Sails Literacy Series - developed by leading New Zealand educationalists and authors Jill Eggleton and Jo Windsor. The Sails Literacy Series is the perfect resource for Guided Reading and Writing, Reciprocal Reading and Independent Reading. The engaging visuals and subjects will motivate your students to read for pleasure and for information. Early Series: Throughout Levels Early 1-4, high frequency words from emergent are consolidated. New words are gradually introduced at each sub-level within the colour bands. Children continue to develop skills in the structure and use of language, while developing skills in accessing, interpreting and processing information from written texts and visual information. The Sails Literacy Series provides students with varied examples of visual language. Each text has a visual focus, which include: advertisements, panels, flow diagrams, recipes, labels, menus, signs, maps, postcards, trails, pictographs, reports, lists, plans, speech bubbles, symbols, catalogues, and many more! The Sails Literacy Series also provides students with a range of written genre so that they are exposed to a variety of writing styles in order to develop competency in their own writing.