Ever wanted to make a maraca? This step by step guide will show you how, with clear, engaging photos that show just how easy it is to make and personalise your very own maraca.

* Lilac/Band 0 books are wordless books that tell a story through pictures and are designed to develop understanding about how stories work.

* Text type: A wordless instruction book.

* Children can recap the stages on pp.14-15

* Curriculum links: Art and Design: Containers

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

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.

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

Susie Hodge is a secondary school teacher, part time trainer and writer. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.