There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly
by:
Simms Taback (author)
Format: Unknown Binding
ISBN:
9780590631884 (0590631888)
Publish date: January 1st 1997
Publisher: Scholastic
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Childrens,
Classics,
Humor,
Funny,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Poetry,
Picture Books,
Animals,
Storytime
Series: Books With Holes
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...
7 years ago
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