This story is a way to include a bit of laughter into your classroom through a read aloud. With the catchy repetitive lines that are predictable, students can engage in choral reading as a class and create their own lines of other things they think the old lady might eat next.
pickPicture book. The colorful and wacky illustrations make this book visually exciting and engaging. The cutouts in the story are creative in the way that they show how the old lady's stomach grows and grows with all the new things she eats. This is a classic silly story that follows a catchy repetitive line.
pickThere Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly is a classic cumulative tale first published in 1961, written by Simms Taback. The story follows the increasingly silly and absurd choices of an old lady who swallows a series of animals, each larger than the last, to catch the one before it.
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My daughter has several of the books in this series, and still finds them hysterical.
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