The Sail Away Difference

Success and satisfaction

Sail Away empowers students to be independent and teachers to be confident. Sail Away students succeed; Sail Away teachers are satisfied. With Sail Away, all students, from the gifted to the most challenged, can excel in language arts, exceeding the teacher's expectations and theirs! And, both teacher and students love it! That's the Sail Away difference - success and satisfaction. Sail Away is not your ordinary language arts curriculum; it's an experience. Teachers come back to Sail Away year after year, especially after trying other approaches. Why?

Balance. Sail Away creatively balances educational innovations with research-based tradition. Sail Away balances phonics with sight word recognition methods. Sail Away balances a consistent approach for students with a flexible, adaptable plan for teachers. Sail Away balances rock-solid academics with learning excitement.


Innovation and Tradition

An instructional day with Sail Away is definitely different. A Sail Away classroom buzzes with the electric excitement of young minds stretching to learn and master important language skills in ways that seem more like recess than learning. Students, often out of their seats, actively participate in their own learning process as they discover for themselves how to understand and remember language skills. The "I've got it!" light bulb constantly flashes in the Sail Away classroom. Sail Away's systematic, rule-based foundation rivals any language arts curriculum in thoroughness and accuracy. Sail Away also utilizes accepted and time-tested multi-sensory teaching techniques.


Phonics and Sight

Sail Away pioneer, Brenda Murphy, carefully crafted Sail Away with not only a strong phonics component but also an equally sound sight word element. She recognizes that no two students learn alike. Some students' learning style favors phonics, others, sight. Sail Away balances both methods. All students learn from the same materials with the same methods. This equilibrium between phonemic awareness and whole-word recognition, within one all-encompassing instructional activity, sets Sail Away dramatically apart from any other language arts program to be found anywhere at any price.


Consistent and Flexible

Sail Away was born from the author's strong conviction that English is a simple, orderly language and should be taught that way, enjoyable for the teacher, a fascinating adventure for the student. In one unforgettable lesson after another, students simultaneously and consistently learn all language strands: penmanship, phonics, reading, decoding, grammar, oral and written composition, analogy, and listening skills. Consistency is at the heart of Sail Away's uncanny knack for appealing to students of all ages and ability levels. Kindergarten to high school, child to adult, gifted to learning disabled, and especially ADD and ADHD students, all thrive with Sail Away's consistent instructional strategies. Year after year, students know what to expect. From the beginning, Sail Away teaches students to automatically understand how to read and spell, then consistent reinforcement builds skill mastery. Students are comfortable and confident of their language skills. Flexibility is why Sail Away is becoming a preferred method for therapeutic clinics, special-ed teachers, reading specialists, as well as a phenomenally growing number of home school teachers. Sail Away-style instruction provides a strong, structured scope and sequence that allows, even encourages, teacher flexibility. Sail Away philosophy trusts teachers, so teachers can use what works for them without compromising the effectiveness of the program. Many teachers adapt Sail Away-style to meet their own classroom needs.


Learning Excitement and Solid Academics

The English language comes alive with Sail Away. Particularly vivid and rich in its methodology, learning excitement and solid academics combine to form a uniquely rewarding educational experience. Each language arts strand rests on a rock-solid academic foundation coupled with boredom-proof teaching strategies. Sail Away pioneer, Brenda Murphy, believes that since children's play is children's work; learning-- children's work - should be children's play. So, Sail Away was created to be as exciting and as much fun as a day at the beach. Sail Away stimulates a child's imagination and curiosity about the world and then taps those powerful learning tools to teach solid language arts skills. Children get excited because Sail Away immerses the whole child in the learning process. It's not a stay-still-in-your-seat, keep-your-mouth-shut program. It's an up-and-at-'em, hands-on, highly kinesthetic, highly visual program. Teachers report that the learning excitement is so great they schedule Sail Away at the end of the day so their students will do the rest of their work!


Handwriting/Penmanship

Sail Away penmanship is a quick and easy, off the page, out of your desk way to learn handwriting. No boring penmanship books. Parents, teachers, tutors and students everywhere are amazed at how fast and simple cursive is with Sail Away. In fact, a room full of 4-8 year olds - including some with handwriting problems -- learned the Sail Away approach to cursive in a little over two hours. How? Sail Away penmanship teaches students how to think to write. Even students who hate to write or have poor eye-hand coordination succeed with Sail Away penmanship. This revolutionary approach to writing does not use pencil and paper for beginning instruction. Sail Away penmanship gets students up and out of their seats to learn to write and doesn't use pencil and paper until students are ready. Sail Away penmanship is based on neurologically correct, developmentally appropriate techniques that eliminate all those monkey-see-monkey do, copy-till-your-hand-cramps workbooks.


Reading and Phonics

Sail Away revolutionizes reading and phonics instruction. Its highly interactive, thoroughly multi-sensory, easy-to-use materials and methods change the way teachers teach reading and phonics. Sail Away pioneer, Brenda Murphy based the phonics and reading components on her belief that English is a simple, orderly language and should be taught that way. Sail Away phonics is sequential and incremental. Student knowledge grows from the simplest to the most complex concepts in small pieces. Sail Away phonics also teaches students to hear with their eyes, see with their ears, and hear and see with their hands and body. That way, no student is excluded from the learning process. The goal of Sail Away reading decoding is reading fluency. Reading fluency is the ability to read entire words and phrases rapidly with understanding. Sail Away thoroughly grounds students in strategies to develop reading fluency, especially when they discover that English does make sense.

 

Spelling

Systematic and rule-based describe Sail Away spelling. No rote memory! Every Sail Away spelling word undergoes a thorough analysis. Every student understands how and why a word is spelled the way it is. Sail Away's copyrighted instructional strategy guarantees it.


Grammar, Composition, Analogy, Vocabulary Development and Listening Skills

Sail Away presents these important, and sometimes overlooked, elements of a complete language arts program heuristically. That means students discover the concepts for themselves. The Sail Away interactive instructional approach gently guides students to discover and apply correct grammar to their writing. Sail Away composition does not require young learners to write compositions beyond their developmental level. Rather students learn creative, clear composition from interesting and accurate models. Sail Away weaves academically important analogy exercises, as well as root-based vocabulary development and listening skills, into the daily instructional equation. The Sail Away difference spells success and satisfaction for students and their teachers. Sail Away passes the beauty and wonder the English language to all students. Illuminate your students' minds today with the language arts program that may someday be the standard against which all others are judged-- Sail Away!

 

 

 

  

 

 
"This workshop was such a great help! It has not only given me the tools with which to teach my children the language arts, but it has also inspired me to get going! I am actually excited about developing readiness activities for my two pre-schoolers. Thank you!!" --L. Welch