Diary of a wombat outlines the day to day activities of a wombat - beautifully illustrated and written with gentle humour.

The oracy book pack for Diary of a wombat contains a lesson plan and all supporting resource materials for each activity.

Theme: Australian animals

Lesson plan includes:

- general preparatory discussion notes: 'digging'

- puppet / language activity

- language game: Tic Tac Toe (story comprehension questions)

- barrier game: basic concepts

- memory activity (auditory/verbal based) - On Monday, I went ....

- 2 sound level activities: counting syllables & rhyme

- 2 word level activities: describing adverbs & verbs (comparison)

- 2 sentence level activities: formulating sentences & similes

- 3 text level activities: cause / effect ; game - hide and seek & text innovation (diary of day at school)

Diary of a wombat was the winner of the Booksellers Choice Award, from Australian Booksellers Association.