Welcome back to Wild About Books Wednesday! Books are my favorite therapy tools and I’m always looking for new books and ideas. The Old Lady will be making one more appearance in my speech room before the end of the school year. Let’s kick off summer vacation with There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Shell by Lucille Colandro!
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I have many students who have never been to the beach, so this book is perfect for building a little world knowledge about the ocean! It is bursting with beach vocabulary. As I’ve mentioned before, these books are also perfect for targeting retelling and sequencing. If you have students with those types of goals The Old Lady series by Lucille Colandro will be perfect for them. Recently, I snagged all of the books at Half Price Books for around $3.00 a piece! An absolute steal!
Let’s peek inside the book companion! It can be found in my membership, The Speech is Sweet Club OR my TPT Shop!
Retelling Activities
First up, I designed a four different retelling activities. Students will feed granny cards as they retell the story. Typically, I have one student hold granny while another student retells the story by feeding granny the cards. I think this is a great way for each student to not only retell the story, but also hear a peer model. While those two students are busy, other students are working on their story maps, retelling craft, or cut and glue worksheet! I created multiple retelling activities, so that everyone can be working at the same time. My students always have to be engaged in something. Time is too precious to just “wait” for a turn.
Feed Me Activity
Story Maps
There is a color version + a coloring sheet version! The black and white option is perfect for sending home for homework!
There is also a snip & stick version! Students cut out the events and paste them in order!
Retelling Craft
Clip Cards
I’ve also created a variety of clip cards to go with this book! Students will place a clothespin on their answer. It’s just a fun way to add a little spice to card activities!
Comprehension
These clip cards tackle WH questions about the story! There are cards that have answers in a field of 2 and cards that have answer choices in a field of 3! There is something for everyone!
Following Directions
Of course, I always have to tie in following directions into my book companions. I have so many students who are working on directions and I like to get everything I can out of a book! This book is a perfect companion for teaching children time concepts (first, then, before, after, etc), so I created a card game that addresses mainly temporal directions. It includes 20 cards!
Printables
I’ve also included a wide variety of no prep pages! Just print n’ go! They address why questions, rhyming, retelling, and open-ended pages! I love the open-ended pages, because they can be used for any goal! I created them with bingo daubers in mind; however, you can truly use any art supply or even use mini erasers to cover the spots!
Interactive Notebook Activities
I’ll always be obsessed with interactive notebook activities! No notebook? No problem! Students can also glue these activities on loose-leaf paper or construction paper! These activities address story elements, describing, plurals, and more!
Here is one more peek at the notebook activities!
Flip Book
There is also a literature flip book included! This tackles comparing/contrasting, sequencing, writing, and comprehension!
Where can you find these There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Shell activities?! There are three options:
The Speech is Sweet Club – My membership grants ALL ACCESS to my materials!
Book Companion
Old Lady Bundle
Looking for some more Old Lady fun? Check out these blog posts:
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Ghost
Thanks for stopping by!
