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Brigitte Minney
Teaching Lesson 1: Picture Book
Book Title: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Grade Level: K – 1st
ISBN: 0-670-86939-2
Objective:
Students will:
Engage in the book, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.
Act out characters in the book.
Understand and exercise sequencing skills.
Increase student’s level of comprehension.
Increase student’s memory and fluency.
Sing and move to music.
Develop the student’s sight word vocabulary.
Materials:
1. There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, by Simms Taback
2. Old lady made out of cardboard and animals
3. Old lady template
4. Crayons, scissors, popsicle sticks and stapler
3. Copy of lyrics and CD
Learner Differences/Accommodations:
Lesson will be taught using a variety of activities to compliment different learner styles. The reading of the story book for the Auditory learner, board activity for the Visual learner, and the hands-on activity for the Kinesthetic learner. Students with special needs will be given a partner to assist when needed.
State Standards & Objectives:
RLA.O.K.3.1 Listen, recite and respond to familiar stories, poems, nursery rhymes, songs and stories with repeated patterns.
RLA.O.1.1.14 - use basic comprehension concepts to understand literary and information texts (e.g., story elements, main ideas, sequence, cause and effect, prediction, retelling).
MU.O.G.M.K-2.1.7 Communicate by moving expressively to music
Activities:
I begin the lesson by having the children sit on the carpeted area on the floor in a group. I talk to the children asking them if they have every swallowed something they shouldn’t have or didn’t mean too. Give each child a chance to answer then share your experience. Then, I ask if anyone has every swallowed a fly and if so ask what happened? Next, I tell the students that I want to share a story with them about an old lady who swallowed a fly. I read the story There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback.
As I read the story I show the students the pictures and encourage them to join in on the repetitious part of the story. After reading the story I followed up with group discussion by asking questions:
Did you like the story?
Do you think a person could swallow all those things?
Who remembers what the old lady swallowed first?
Discuss the animals and have the students put motions to the animals. Next introduce the song by playing the CD. Practice singing a few times with the students until they get it. Once the students are comfortable singing the story, have the children act out the animal charters as they sing. Sing the song slow then speed it up as you go along.
Extended lesson
Introduce the word “sequence” to the children and explain that it means the order in which something happens or is done. Explain to the children that the activity that they just did (singing the song and pretending to be animals) is a form of sequencing. By singing the song the children were able to remember the sequence in which the old lady swallowed the animals. Tell the children you have one last activity for them to practice their sequencing skill. Have the children return to their seats.
Once children have returned to their seats, bring out the cardboard old lady. Sit her on a table or teacher’s desk. Show them the different animal pieces have several to where they repeat. Tell the students that together they are going to retell the story pick different students to pretend to be the animal by picking the correct animal the old lady swallows. Retell several times giving each child a chance to be the animal and to increase their memory and fluency.
Assessment:
The best way I feel to asses a child for this lesson is by observation.
Rubric:
Did student participate in class discussion of story? Did they understand the book?
Not at all - Very little - Somewhat - Very much
Did student participate in singing and pretend play?
Not at all - Very little - Somewhat - Very much
Did the student participate in board activity? Were they able to determine the next animal?
Not at all - Very little - Somewhat - Very much
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly,
I don't know why she swallowed a fly,
Perhaps she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a bird,
How absurd! to swallow a bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a cat,
Imagine that! to swallow a cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a dog,
What a hog! to swallow a 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,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a cow,
I don't know how she swallowed a cow!
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,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a horse,
She died—of course!