Tip Tap

Phonics School & Home T ip Tap Focus: satpin

Help your students read! This book practises these letters and letter sounds. Point and say the sounds with your students: satp i n Your students may need help reading these common tricky words: is I Before reading • Look at the cover picture and read the title together. Read the back cover blurb to your students. • Ask: Where is the boy? (at the beach) What kinds of things can we do at the beach? During reading • If your students get stuck on a word, remind them to sound it out and then blend the sounds to read the word: t-a-p, tap. • If they are still stuck, show them how to read the word. • Enjoy looking at the pictures together. Pause to talk about the story. After reading • Ask: What did the boy do at the end of the story? • Talk about any experience your students have of digging pits or making sandcastles at the beach.

Phonics School & Home Tip Tap Can you spot the cat on 4 pages? Tip Tap All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, This edition copyright © 2022 Scholastic Canada Ltd. stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, 175 Hillmount Road, Markham, Ontario, Canada, L6C 1Z7 electronic, mechanical, photocopying, scanning, recording or otherwise, First published in the UK by Scholastic Education in 2021. without the prior written consent of the publisher or a license from The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright). Scholastic ebook edition 9781443076616 For an Access Copyright license, call toll free to 1-800-893-5777. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions and do not participate Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders for the works in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrightable materials. reproduced in this publication, and the publishers apologize for any Your support is appreciated. inadvertent omissions. Author Catherine Baker Editorial team Rachel Morgan, Tracy Kewley, Liz Evans Design team Dipa Mistry, We Are Grace Illustrations Kevin Payne

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Phonics Focus sounds: School & Home satpin T ip Tap Decodable with tricky words written by Catherine Baker illustrated by Kevin Payne School & Home Set 1 A day at the beach is fun. A family digs a pit and fills it with water. Other titles in Set 1: Practise these sounds: s a t p i n m d Move to Set 2: Practise these sounds: g o c k ck e u r h b f l