Wombat Stew
This book is best for:
- character description
- adjectives
- plurals
Review
In this classic Australian book, a clever dingo catches a wombat and decides to make wombat stew. Lucky for the wombat, the other bush animals decide to trick dingo in order to save their friend.
The repetitive nature of Wombat Stew really engages children and they very quickly, start joining in with the catchy wombat stew rhyme. The rich descriptive language in this book makes it a good choice when targeting adjectives and character description. This book can also be used to target plurals as the bush animals trick Dingo into putting lots of feather, flies and insects into the stew.
See the list below for other possible speech and language targets in Wombat Stew.
Book Details
Narrative Structure: Complete Episode
Story Plot: Wishing Tale
Themes:
- animals - Australian, insects/mini-beasts, reptiles
- food/drink
- places - bush
- friendship
- problem solving
- negotiation
Speech and Language Targets
Speech Sounds:
- /b/ - billabong, big, blops, billycan, brew, bugs, wombat
- /ch/ - chewy, crunchy, munchy, lunchy
- /d/ - dingo, dance, mud
- /l/ - lizard, billabong, billycan, koala
- /l/ blends - blue, blops, slide, sleepy, flies
- /r/ blends - bright, brew, crunchy, creepy, crawlies, cried, grin
- /s/ blends - stew, stir, stop, snap, scoop, slugs, sleepy
- /t/ - tail, tongue, wombat, fat
- /w/ - wombat, water, worry
Grammar:
- adjectives
- conjunctions (and, so)
- negatives (no, can't, haven't)
- prepositions (in, out, down, around, through)
- present progressive tense (-ing)
- objective pronoun (me)
- subjective pronouns (I, you)
- regular past tense
- irregular past tense verbs (caught, dug, sang)
- action verbs
- mental verbs
Semantics:
- labelling
- identifying parts of animals
- describing
- predicting
- explaining means to a goal
- identifying obstacles to an action
- making inferences
Questions:
- what
Concepts:
- location (in, out, down, around, through)
- quantity (all)
Social-Emotional:
- friendship
- initiating conversation
- negotiating
- problem solving
Narrative:
- traditional opening
- character description
- time
- setting
- sequencing
- initiating event
- problem
- plans
- resolution
- dialogue
Rhyme & Sound Awareness:
- rhyme
Book Info
Published by Scholastic Press in 1984 (ISBN: 9781741693621)