Description
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose Activities:
This There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose activities pack includes a flip book, a mini-book, and retelling sticks and are perfect for kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade (please check the preview to make sure that the level of difficulty is appropriate for your own class).
These activities are perfect for Valentine’s Day in February!
Lucille Colandro has done it again with There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose! Your students will enjoy constructing a flip book, creating a mini-book (there is a good deal of tracing words and creating words in this book), and summarizing The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose with retelling sticks! There are so many early literacy skills embedded in this literature companion! Your students get to have FUN while you secretly cover ELA standards!
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose LITERACY PACK includes the following:
FLIP BOOK with the following pages:
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose COVER
- True or False
- My Favorite Part
- ABC Order
- Rhyming Words
- Writing a Friendly Letter
- Sentence Unscramble
- Sequencing – There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose
MINI-BOOK:
Love is….
This mini-book includes 8 (half-sheets) pages and students trace the first few words of the sentence on each page, but are required to write the final word(s) on each page. Black and white pictures are provided for students to use as illustrations for this mini-book (if desired).
RETELLING STICKS:
There are 9 labeled sticks with pictures in black and white (if students want to color them) as well as the SAME 9 sticks in full color. One additional empty circle is provided for students to create an additional stick (at the teacher’s discretion).
NOTE: There are answer keys where appropriate (three of the flip book pages have an answer key that comes at the end of the flip book pages). Thank you for checking out this literature companion for There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose!
NOTE: THIS FILE INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!
This product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.
This file contains 30 PDF pages + Google Slides™.








Hilary C. –
cute
Dawn A. –
Excellent resource!
Laura G. –
Great activity to incorporate with the book.
Fanatic About First –
Fun!
1st Grade is Fabulously Fun –
Awesome resource! I love the variety of activities and colors/clipart.
josilene clark –
Great resource
Laura A R. –
My last name is Rose so the kids loved this extra! Great text and great pack to reinforce skills!
shelby B. –
Loved it
Trina T. –
I like to take these kinds of resources and turn them into felt board stories. I have the kids help me retell the story after reading the book.
Samantha R. –
I left this activity with a sub to do with my class. So easy to use and fun for all!
Spedwithmissd –
Love the popsicle characters and made it so engaging for my students! Our student got act out and play with the characters!!
Kailynn Mackenzie –
My students loved using this resource. I am going to use it every year.
Jessica M. –
I love these books! My K students love to read this and this was a great extra resource to go along with it.
Kirsten Tulsian –
Thank you so much for your thoughtful feedback and 5-star review, Jessica!
I’m so happy to hear it was valuable for you and your students.
Much gratitude,
Kirsten