This is a great book to get your students to follow along and predict what will happen next. There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly is about an old woman who swallows all of these "things" and the story is describing a food chain. Students love this book and find it fun and engaging. It is placed...
Many children are already familiar with the "old lady" books. There are so many now! I am going to focus on one that delivers its own version of the original classic, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, by Lucille Colandro. The story uses rhyming text and hilarious illustrations to engage the...
This book (and song) is about a woman who swallowed a fly, a spider, a bird, and even more. The activity I would use with this book would be in a literacy center. I would have an old woman with Velcro on her abdomen and Velcro attached to different animals. The students must place the animals in ord...
Genre: Surreal / Humor / Chain Reaction / Food / Animals Year Published: 1997 Year Read: 2009Publisher: Viking “There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly” is a silly lyrical book rewritten from a 1940s American folk poem by Simms Taback and is a Caldecott Honor Book. This book is about how an...
This is a good book to show for sequence of events and chronological order. I would use this in my classroom by having them all pick an animal from the book and getting in a group. We will then play the song and as their animal was said they would have to stand up and act like that animal. I could a...
This is a fun children's book that can be a little disturbing, simply due to the fact that the lady dies at the end. The book is about an old lady who initially swallows a fly, then swallows a series of animals to get rid of the animal she had eaten prior until she eats a horse and dies because a ho...
This is a story and a song about the old lady who swallowed a fly, a spider, a bird, and even more. This is just a funny, creative, story to grab students attention and this book can also help with students memorization and sequencing. I would read this in kindergarten through first grade. Lexile ...
This book's title alone is guaranteed to grad the attention of any potential reader, because what would happen if an old lady swallowed a fly? And furthermore, who has ever heard of an old lady who swallowed a dog, or a horse? This book is humorous and full of unusual plot twists making readers sit ...
This book is so fun, the kids will go crazy over it! It is a good book to read if your teaching repetition or just reading a book for fun. I would read this to kids from kindergarten to second grade. An activity for this would be for children to use their imagination and come up with other things sh...
I believe this is a great book that I would use with kindergarten through second grade. It is a fun read that can keep them entertained, especially when one uses resources along with it. One such example of these resources would be puppets and another would be a song. As for how I would use this boo...
Important: Our sites use cookies.
We use the information stored using cookies and similar technologies for advertising and statistics purposes.
Stored data allow us to tailor the websites to individual user's interests.
Cookies may be also used by third parties cooperating with BookLikes, like advertisers, research companies and providers of multimedia applications.
You can choose how cookies are handled by your device via your browser settings.
If you choose not to receive cookies at any time, BookLikes will not function properly and certain services will not be provided.
For more information, please go to our Privacy Policy.
Log in with Facebook 
