Edward the Emu is bored at the zoo - there is no-one to talk to and nothing to do.  So Edward decides he's going to be something else.  He goes from cage to cage trying to find the BEST animal at the zoo. But is he bored, or just a little bit lonely?

The oracy book pack for Edward the Emu contains a lesson plan and all supporting resource materials for each activity.

Lesson plan includes:

- general preparatory discussion notes (pretending)

- puppet / language activity (social questioning)

- language game: describing 'who am I?'

- barrier game: giving / following directions - describing

- memory activity (associated pairs)

- 2 sound level activities: initial sounds - alliteration / rhyming 

- 2 word level activities: emotional literacy / vocabulary choices - verbs

- 2 sentence level activities: sentence expansion / sentence conjunctions

- 3 text level activities: personal recount / compare and contrast / text innovation (Charlie Smith is bored)