The Oracy Book Packs focus on spoken language. Each book pack has several language activities based on that book. Each book pack tends to offer a general ‘talk about’ section to help children focus on the theme, a puppet activity, a language game, a barrier game, and a memory game.

The following activities then specifically focus on sound, word, sentence, and text level language. For example, at sound level there may be a rhyming activity, at word level the activity may be learning about adjectives, and sentence level may look at listening comprehension or creating complex sentences. Text level provides activities such as a social language activity for developing friendships, sharing personal narratives about different feelings, explaining how to play a game, or comparing two different animals. Finally, most of the book packs will also have a text innovation, where the story is transformed from perhaps the Bunyip of Berkley’s Creek, into a story about The Yeti of Mount Everest.

Each book pack provides the lesson plan explaining each activity with a set of visual resources children can cut out and colour in.