The flipped perspective and playful illustrations in Diary of a Wombat provide students with plenty of opportunities to pause while reading to check their comprehension. As a result, students will naturally ask questions to better understand the story.

Readers will enjoy using what they know about pets to make connections that deepen their understanding of Diary of a Wombat. In addition to making personal connections to the text, students will also practice drawing upon their background knowledge to make text-to-world and text-to-text connections.

Diary of a Wombat is an ideal text for students to practice making inferences. The illustrations convey a lot of the story, leaving students study the pictures, use their background knowledge, and deepen their comprehension of the text.

Students will have fun making predictions as they read Diary of a Wombat. The page-specific prompts included in this set of resources will guide readers to make meaningful predictions based on their observations of the wombat and what they know about pets and other animals.

The diary format of this book makes it easy for students to retell the events in Diary of a Wombat. Students will also practice summarizing the story elements of this book by focusing on setting, problem and solution, and the characters.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French as a springboard for instruction focused on three sounds of "y".

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from noticing words with three sounds of "y" inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with words.

This set of vocabulary development resources for Diary of a Wombat highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book.  Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Diary of a Wombat. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Diary of a Wombat.

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Diary of a Wombat includes several examples of cause and effect relationships, making it easy to use as a springboard for modeling or independent practice.

This simple resource includes four sentence stems. Each sentence stem presents an effect. Students will use what they know about the book to fill in the cause of the effect.

In Diary of a Wombat the wombat is playfully illustrated by Bruce Whatley and charmingly brought to live by Jackie French. Students will have fun using what they learned about the wombat while reading the book to sort her internal and external character traits into columns.

Read Diary of a Wombat then have some fun matching cause and effect sentences from the book. By using these cause and effect cards, students will demonstrate both their comprehension of the text and their understanding of cause and effect relationships in a hands-on and interactive way.

This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in Diary of a Wombat. Each cause card is marked with a square and each effect card is marked with a circle, making it easy to support students who struggle with matching cause and effect relationships.