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“There was an old lady who swallowed a fly“

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.

Picture 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.

There 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.

I‘ve always loved this line. “She swallowed the cat to catch the bird. She swallowed the bird to catch the spider. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.”

I love the “original” version of this book by Lucille Colandro. However, this is a fresh new twist on the classic story.

I think this book is a fun way to introduce poems and the illustrations are very silly and exude a lot of color on the page and easily catch the eye of the reader and listener.

I think this is a silly and goofy story that introduces children to poems in a fun and exciting way

“There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, I don‘t know why she swallowed a fly. Perhaps she'll die.”
I like this quote because it sets the tone for the book‘s humor and cumulative storytelling. The line‘s catchy nature also makes it fun for children to recite along, enhancing the book's interactive experience.

A standout moment in There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly is when the old lady, after swallowing a fly, continues to consume increasingly larger animals in a comical chain reaction. It exemplifies the book‘s charm and its ability to entertain through a simple yet endlessly entertaining sequence of events.

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly is a whimsical and engaging rendition of the classic cumulative tale. The book‘s vibrant, playful illustrations and rhythmic text create a captivating experience as the old lady‘s increasingly absurd choices lead to a series of amusing mishaps. It‘s a delightful read that encourages participation and laughter.

I absolutely love how the animals that she‘s going to eat are talking and making jokes on the bottom of the pages. It‘s very creative and I think kids will absolutely love this fun interactive element.

The colors in this book are fantastic! They‘re so bright and captivating. I love how this story is a take on what‘s happening in the old lady‘s stomach. Having the little hole in the middle get bigger and bigger to show what she‘s eaten and to show how big she‘s getting is a very innovative idea.

She swallowed the cow to catch the dog. She swallowed the dog to catch the cat. She swallowed the cat to catch the bird. She swallowed the bird to catch the spider. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don't know why she swallowed the fly. Perhaps she'll die.

There are different animals watching the old lady swallow all these animals and insects and making different comments about why and how she is able to do this. There are different reasonings for why the lady swallowed the different animals and her reason for swallowing more afterwards.

There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly by Simms Taback. This book is a Caldecott Honor Award Book. This lady started out by just swallowing a fly and then gradually started swallowing different insects and animals. After swallowing so many large animals she got so sick and and ended up dead.

This book is filled with rhymes and colors that bring this crazy book to life. I like how it had cut outs of the stomach to give its a 3D kind of look when the old lady swallows something else.

Another classic book that is full of color and bizarre scenarios that children enjoy

“That wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.“

A super fun, poetic story, about an old lady who swallowed a fly! Find out what happens!

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly was written by Simms Tadback. The book won a Caldecott Award in 1998. I really enjoyed this book! The book includes a fun story about an old lady who swallowed a fly and continues to swallow other animals to get the fly out! The story includes rhyming words which makes it a fun read! In addition, the illustrations are super bright and colorful!

“I don‘t know why she swillers the fly. Perhaps she‘ll die”

I liked how this book had rhyming words. I think that the students can listen to this as a read aloud and they can put their hands up when they hear a word that rhymes.

This is a classic when I was younger I loved this book. This book is good to read with younger students they always laugh when they listen to it in a read aloud.

“Even the artist is crying”

The use of illustrations in this book were incredible. It was so creative for the illustrator to use pictures from other pages and just make a hole in the old lady!

She swallowed the bird to catch the spider. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don‘t know why she swallowed the fly. Perhaps she‘ll die.

funny pictures that go along with what the old lady is eating. Very interactive

This Caldecott awarded book sits on almost every early childhood elementary book shelf! It‘s funny and simply a classic. The genre is fiction: with focus on repetition and rhyming words. Intended for children to join the read based on the easy repeating.

And this is the last page... bit dark...

Moving a bookcase around, so thought I'd share this gem of a book. It's so unusual.

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly is a great book for Poetry! This book is about a crazy lady who swallows a bunch of animals! This book includes rhyming and repetition. It goes along great with EL 42( have students use timelines to arrange and sequence important facts and information) as well as UDL 3.2 (highlight patterns, critical features, big ideas, and relationships). This book is a great RA for your classroom. #ucflae3414sp21

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly! 👵🏻 This TL, S, Caldecott Honor Book, is a classic story that has various retellings too. This version tells the story of an old lady who swallows a fly and continues on a path of swallowing various animals to get the fly out. The moral of the story is “never swallow a horse”. The UDL principle 1.3- offer alternatives for visual information is an exemplary match being a S book.

This TL Caldecott Honor book makes for a fun read aloud (RA), with cut outs in the pictures that make the illustrations come to life! In the story the old lady swallows a fly, then swallows more and more animals to to catch the fly, (spoiler) and ends with her dying from swallowing a horse. With redundant phrases, EL strategy 14 simplify and make speech redundant, is perfect for this book!

What a classic! This book is so great for the classroom and is always a hit!! It is a Caldecott honor and fantasy/fiction! It is a fun picture book that keeps children‘s interest up with what she will swallow next!! I would incorporate storytelling for this book because I think the layout is perfect for that strategy and can make it so fun!

This Caldecott Honor book is a TL classic about an old lady who continues to swallow things until... well I will let you find out for yourself! This is a book I remember reading as a young child and used to love! This is great to use for S because students will find it enjoyable to see fun images and is easy for the teacher to remember based on the tools they decide to use. #UCFLAE3414SP20

This TL book is by Simms Taback. It is about an old lady who swallowed a fly and then continued to swallow other animals to catch the animal she has swallowed previously, such as how she swallowed the spider to catch the fly. It won the Caldecott. #ucflae3414f19

This TL picture book by Simms Tabak retells about an old lady who swallows a fly, amongst other things. This would be good for S, the lesson plan is great for creating a storytelling for this book for the students to perform. Works well with ELs too because a lot of parts would be repetitive and use of sequence. #ucflae3414f19
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plans/teaching-content/art-storytelli...

So so

“There was an old lady that swallowed a spider that wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.“

I would read this to children to lighten up the mood of the school day and let them kind of settle down and relax.