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There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly | Read aloud flip-along book

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Fiction stories are make believe stories that usually have a problem, a solution, and a lesson learned. This fiction story is extra fun because it also has lots of rhyming words-- or words that have the same ending sound! Let's read to find out what happens in, "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly."

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Can't get enough of rhyming words? Check out this fun rhyming words game or this one!Fascinated by how much the old lady was able to eat? Learn more about the body's digestion system with this fun cartoon!
"There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" is a great story for practicing your retelling of events. Understanding the order that things happen in a story is important because it can help you to better understand how a problem develops and gets solved. Each time you read a fiction book be thinking of the the order of events in order to better understand the problem, solution, and the lesson the author wants you learn.

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