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Dear Zoo!

Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell

We have had lots of fun learning the story Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell as part of our learning in Nursery over the past few weeks.

We have had so much fun exploring Dear Zoo, we created a story map, painted our favourite animals from the story and talked about why some of them did not make very good pets.

Look at some of our fantastic drawing and mark making!

Using Pie Corbett's Talk for Writing and acted out our story with the help of our story map. We used actions, connectives, storytelling language and repeated phrases to retell and learn the story. We were fantastic at thinking of actions we could use for each of the animals. 

Our oral retell...

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