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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"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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This book one a Caldecott Honor award for its illustrations (or pictures) in 1998. Why do you think the pictures in this book are unique?

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