A hilarious twist on the classic song from the bestselling There Was an Old Lady series for kids! You’ll never guess what she’ll swallow next! The old lady is swallowing a fly, a spider, a bird, and more….to create a home full of lovable pets! With rhyming text and hilarious illustrations, this is the original song young readers know and love with a wacky twist. The perfect story to read all year long!
This fun rhyming, repetitive book can be used in speech therapy to target predicting. It is also great for sequencing, noticing illustrations and for targeting /l/, /th/, /air/, /sw/, and /fl/ sounds! Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly in speech therapy below:
Frequent Speech Sounds:
/l/ initial, medial, and final
/th/ initial
/air/ final
/sw/ initial
/fl/ initial
/sh/ initial
Themes:
non-seasonal
Book Details:
Diverse Characters: N/A
Age Recommendation: Early Childhood, Elementary
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly
By Lucille Colandro
Key Teaching Concepts
Narrative Structure:
action sequence
cumulative tale
Narrative Concepts:
sequencing
illustration study
predicting
subjective pronoun- “she”
verbs (action)
verbs (regular past tense)
WH questions (why and who)
phonological awareness
repetitive text
Sequencing:
order of animals old lady swallowed
Vocabulary:
wriggled, jigged, absurd, imagine, hog
Grammar:
subjective pronoun- “she”
verbs (action)
verbs (regular past tense)
WH questions (why and who)
Text Features:
repetitive text
Phonological Awareness:
rhyming
Inferencing:
How does each animal feel as they are about to get swallowed?
Predicting:
Why do you think the old lady swallowed the fly?
What do you think she will swallow next?
Why do you think she is swallowing each thing?
What do you think will happen to the old lady as she burps?