Book_Author: Nadine Bernard Wescott
Number_Pages: 28
Book_Awards:
Curriculum_Subject: Language-Art
Grade: K-1
My_Name: Christina Flotta
Activity_Duration: 30 minutes
Date: 5/23/99
Time: 2:25:45 PM
Remote Name: 128.175.144.193
mailto: cflotta@udel.edu
This is a cumulative story that begins with a lady accidentally swallowing a fly. She continues to eat animals so that they will eat the animal she swallowed prior. She ultimately ends her life by swallowing a horse. I recommend this book because it is sequential using animals. Children enjoy reading books in which animals are included.
-Students will be able to memorize events in sequence.
-Students will be able to draw animals.
-Students will be able to invent spelling for orally known words.
This lesson will show reading comprehension by sequencing ability. The children are expected to learn sequencing because it shows that students were attentive during the reading and that they comprehended what was being read to them.
-Activate prior knowledge by asking students if they have ever swallowed something gross that they didn't want to. This is being asked just to introduce the plot of the story.
-Ask students what they did afterwards, if they brushed their teeth or chewed a piece of gum.
-Teacher says we are going to see what this old lady did after she swallowed a fly.
-On page 13, the teacher will ask students why they think the old lady is swallowing all of these animals.
-After reading the book the teacher will ask what is different about the old lady's appearance at the beginning of the book compared to the end. (If needed a picture of the lady at both of these times should be shown in order for the students to see the difference.)
-Teacher will pass out the activity sheet. (See a completed activity sheet attached.)
-Teacher will explain that this is to be done individually.
-Teacher will tell students that they are going to draw the animals that the old lady swallowed, in order that they were swallowed. If the students need assistance with the appearance of the animals then the animals can be drawn on the board in a random order or the teacher can blow up the pictures of the animals in the book and show them on an overhead projector.
-I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
-Chalk, chalkboard
-Activity sheet
-Overheads, overhead projector (*optional)
Students will be assessed on their sequencing of the animals in the correct order and their ability to invent spelling.