Exam Board: SQA
Level: National 5
Subject: English
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016

Sailmaker Plus offers the full text of the widely popular drama text, Sailmaker, by award-winning writer Alan Spence, which is a set text for National 5 English. It also provides an introduction by the author outlining his motives in writing it, and a wide range of background material by Jane Cooper, offering a historical perspective and detailed support for students who wish to write about the play in literary contexts, especially for examination purposes. Although suitable for a broad range of students, the play is likely to be particularly suitable for study at National 5 English.

This book is aimed at children in secondary school. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 104 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Hodder Education .

Alan Spence is an award-winning writer of several collections of poetry, novels, short stories and plays including his most recent works: 'Still', 'Clear Light' and 'The Pure Land'. Jane Cooper is Teacher and Annie Rayner is Principal Teacher of English at St Augustine's High School in Edinburgh.

This book has the following chapters:

• : 1 Introduction
• : 2 Sailmaker
• : 3 Notes and Questions
• : 4 Comparing Two Versions
• : 5 Music in the Play
• : 6 Group Discussion
• : 7 The British Working Man
• : 8 End of the Play
• : 9 Structure
• : 10 Characters
• : 11 Themes
• : 12 Contrasts
• : 13 Exam Essays