Diary of a Wombat

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Student practise their oral language skills, firstly in small groups and then in front of the whole class.

single work children's fiction ; The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley (Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life) Martine Murray, I love that this story is told in the diary format. The wombat, which I don’t know this creature very well, is giving his story. He is cute and cuddly and just a little oblivious to the fact that he is very very destructive to things around him. He might be cute, but I sure wouldn’t want to be his neighbor. A standout feature of the wombat is the distinctive round bottom, which may be why Bruce Whatley chose to depict the wombat from behind in a number of illustrations. This is surprisingly uncommon for picture books, in which we’re more likely to see ‘ posed for a photo‘ characters. Bruce Whatley doesn’t vary the top-bottom angle of the wombat, keeping to one-point perspective throughout, without making use of high/low angles. This allows the reader to remain right alongside the wombat as an equal at all times. His choice to depict the wombat in various cardinal directions may partly be to do with the need to vary each illustration from the others. But when wombat sits and stars at the boarded-up door, we really feel her petulant patience for carrots, even though we can’t see her face.

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Provides an example of diary writing for later use by the students in their individual writing task. In this mythic journey the wombat finds a new home, even closer to the humans than before, burrowed under the house. This is an oblivious character who doesn’t see the havoc she wreaks behind her. She doesn’t realise the humans filled up her hole because they didn’t want a hole. Unlike Peter Rabbit, she doesn’t realise the carrots in the garden have been planted there by someone and that she thieved them. She thinks she happened upon them. WHAT DOES SHE WANT? We can extrapolate that things will continue as they did before, but this time the wombat’s life is even more convenient as she doesn’t even have to walk up the garden path to get fed. COMPARE AND CONTRAST

Model the use of a Colon when creating a list. Model an example of my dailyroutine during the week.Example:

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By the way, comic characters often have insatiable appetites. In a comedy ensemble you’ll usually get one who is obsessed with food. Activity 7. Guided Reading - read the story a second time. This time pausing at various points to ask questions.

Diary of a Wombat is a highly entertaining book. It’s brief, simple text and hilarious illustrations encourage children to make inferences about the story. Children enjoy comparing Mothball’s point of view with what the humans probably thought about all of Mothball’s antics. Diary of a Wombat is written in past tense and contains repetition of a range of irregular past tense verbs, such as ate, slept and dug.So they're real characters, wombats. Diary of a Wombat is written from the wombat's perspective, and is incredibly adorable and funny. Her diary consists of sleeping, eating, scratching, and sleeping some more - until a family of humans moves in and she discovers she can get some tasty food if she bangs on tin rubbish bins. She's also protective of this new family, and valiantly does battle with the flat hairy creature (the doormat) before demanding a reward. Hi! I'm Cecile, a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist from Western Australia. I am passionate about using great picture books in therapy sessions. Find out more about me (and see a photo of our recently adopted fur baby). Feel free to send me a message - I'd love to know about your favourite picture books!