Join Dan and Sam as they have fun dipping and tapping with shapes and paint to produce paintings. But who are their pictures of? Full of creative ideas, this photographic non-fiction book is written by Catherine Baker.

* Children can discuss the different steps Dan and Sam took to finish their paintings in the flow chart on pages 14-15.

* Pink A/Band 1A books offer emergent readers very simple text supported by illustrations.

* Children can discuss the different steps Dan and Sam took to finish their paintings in the flow chart on pages 14-15.

* Curriculum links: Creative Development: Use their imagination in art and design, music, dance, imaginative and role-play and stories

This book is part of a book series called Collins Big Cat Phonics .

This book is aimed at children in primary school. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme has multiple levels. 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. This reading book uses the Synthetic phonics method. (This can also be referred to as 'blended phonics' or 'inductive phonics'). A phonics 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. In Synthetic Phonics, children are taught to sound and blend from the start of reading tuition. Children are taught a small group of letter sounds and then shown how these can be co-articulated to pronounce unfamiliar words. Other groups of letters are then taught and the children blend them in order to pronounce new words. The pronunciation of the word is discovered through sounding and blending, and spelling by mapping sounds to letters. Consonant blends that cannot be read by blending are explicitly taught.

There are 16 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Catherine Baker has been an editor and writer of teachers' and pupils' literacy materials for over 25 years. Recently she has contributed to the Pearson REVISE Key Stage 2 SATs series for English. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.