Besides my own sweet Granny, this weirdly hungry old lady is one of my favorites. At the beginning of the year I ordered the rest of the books I didn’t have, including the Rose version! I have typically used this book with my younger preschool crowd. This winter and spring, I’m hoping to use it with my older students as well! I whipped up these pages to use with my k-5 crowd, but it should be adaptable for older and younger student too! Here are the ‘Rose’ and ‘Clover’ Sets. I’m not the first SLP blogger to make book companions for this little lady. You can check out a sample of those here. Those packets looked great but didn’t have exactly what I needed, so I came up with this one. Find it in my TPT shop. There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Rose.
This 36 page activity pack is perfect for speech or language. I’ve included a sneak peek for each of the activities below. Granny grammar sentences are my favorite!
•Granny Grammar: Help your students increase their sentence complexity. Give each student a grammar granny (page 33). Granny has different parts of speech written on different parts of her face. Students should develop a sentence. Then look to see which elements they have included. They should color in those parts on the granny in the sentence strip (page 34.) Encourage students to add complexity to their sentences..
•Future Tense Writing: Have your student develop a sentence writing and drawing what he/she would eat if they were the granny.
•Retelling: Cut out the old lady’s head.(page 3.) Cut out her mouth and attach it to an empty tissue box. Use the cards on page 4 to feed the lady pieces of the story. Use the retelling mats on pages 5 & 6 to retell the story or send home as homework.
•Rhyme: Cut out the cards (page 7) and match rhyming words from the story. Pictures make the cards partially self-checking.
•Verb Tense: Cut out each verb card (pages 8-11.) Name the verb from the story indicated on the left side of the card.. Then determine the verb form for past, present and future tense. Use a dry erase marker to fill in the blanks.
•Story Sequencing: Print the story sequencing circles (pages 12-13) and add Velcro. Let students retell the story and add the story parts in order.
•Object Functions: Use the included sheet to let student identify the object functions. If students can ID them receptively, target this skill expressively (What do you do with a clover?)
•Ordinal Numbers: Print and cut the included cards. Have students find matches (ie: first/1st) and then put them in order. My student have such a hard time with this in first grade!
•Comprehension: Use the included 12 comprehension cards (pages 16-17) as a follow up to the book. Use the Yes/No questions (page 18) as another follow-up activity.
•Articulation Reinforcers: Use the Spin & Cover and Granny Collector games as a general reinforcer for articulation students (or any speech/language target). During Spin & Cover (pages 19-20) the student uses an included spinner and sheet to be the first to cover each item (use bingo chips.) During the Granny Collector game (page 21-22) students use the included game die to collect as many grannies as they can. Be the first to cover each granny and win. Say your sound as many times as you cover grannies!
•Possessive Pronouns: Print one copy of pages 23-24. The old lady has decided to share some items with her dog, Brutus. Decide what items they should have. Say a good sentence as you give them each their objects and explain why!
•Conversation Starters: Use the 12 included conversation starters to discuss topics related to the book.
•Do-A-Dot Reinforcer: Use the included reinforcer as a coloring or Do-A-Dot page.
•Temporal Directions: Print one of each card (pages 28-31) and play the game while working on before/after game cards. I’ve also got the March version of this book ready! You can find it in my TPT Store.
- – Retelling: Cut out the old lady’s head.(page 3.) Cut out her mouth and attach it to an empty tissue box. Use the cards on page 4 to feed the lady pieces of the story. Use the retelling mats on pages 5 & 6 to retell the story or send home as homework.
- • Rhyme: Cut out the cards (page 7) and match rhyming words from the story. Pictures make the cards partially self-checking.
- • Verb Tense: Cut out each verb card (pages 8-11.) Name the verb from the story indicated on the left side of the card.. Then determine the verb form for past, present and future tense. Use a dry erase marker to fill in the blanks.
- • Story Sequencing: Print the story sequencing circles (pages 12-13) and add Velcro. Let students retell the story and add the story parts in order.
- • Object Functions: Use the included sheet to let student identify the object functions. If students can ID them receptively, target this skill expressively (What do you do with a clover?)
- • Ordinal Numbers: Print and cut the included cards. Have students find matches (ie: first/1st) and then put them in order.
- • Comprehension: Use the included 12 comprehension cards (pages 16-17) as a follow up to the book. Use the Yes/No questions (page 18) as another follow-up activity.
- • Articulation Reinforcers: Use the Spin & Cover and Granny Collector games as a general reinforcer for articulation students (or any speech/language target). During Spin & Cover (pages 19-20) the student uses an included spinner and sheet to be the first to cover each item (use bingo chips.) During the Granny Collector game (page 21-22) students use the included game die to collect as many grannies as they can. Be the first to cover each granny and win. Say your sound as many times as you cover grannies!
- • Possessive Pronouns: Print one copy of pages 23-24. The old lady has decided to share some items with her dog, Brutus. Decide what items they should have. Say a good sentence as you give them each their objects and explain why!
- • Conversation Starters: Use the 12 included conversation starters to discuss topics related to the book.
- • Do-A-Dot Reinforcer: Use the included reinforcer as a coloring or Do-A-Dot page.
- • Temporal Directions: Print one of each card (pages 28-31) and play the game while working on before/after game cards.
- • Granny Grammar: Help your students increase their sentence complexity. Give each student a grammar granny (page 33). Granny has different parts of speech written on different parts of her face. Students should develop a sentence. Then look to see which elements they have included. They should color in those parts on the granny in the sentence strip (page 34.) Encourage students to add complexity to their sentences..
- • Future Tense Writing: Have your student develop a sentence writing and drawing what he/she would eat if they were the granny.
- In my TPT Store: Swallowed a Clover & Swallowed Rose Ok. If you made it ALL the way to the bottom of that post I think I should do a giveaway! I’ll giveaway a copy of each! Just leave a comment below and I’ll pick a winner from the comments. Make sure you leave your email with your comment!
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These are my favorite books to use in therapy! amym112@gmail.com
Love the Old Lady books…and your creative materials! Winning this giveaway would simply make my day! I haven’t picked up the ‘clover’ book yet…it’s on my shopping list! Here’s crossing my fingers…..wryback@comcast.net
These old lady packs are just awesome! Love how you included so many different speecj and language areas into each one. Cute cute cute graphics!
Love these stories and using book units with my students! angelene1999@hotmail.com
I love these books! takes care of therapy plans for one week out of every month for me! your follow up activities look fantastic!
I LOVE your book companions! More to add to my wishlist 🙂 amy.carlton78@gmail.com
These are really cute!!
My students love these books. cariegonzales@yahoo.com
These activities look great! I especially like the Granny Grammar. My students have such a difficult time with complex and “interesting” sentences. I just received the Clover book. Finally ordered that one 🙂
Love all the Old Lady books! I have the puppet and all the pieces to the original story. One of these days I want to get some felt and fill and make companion pieces for the rest of the stories to be able to use her as holidays and seasons change. bjandour3sons@comcast.net
Love The Old Lady books. These packets look too cute! You have saved me a lot of time with planning this year! Thank you!!
These books are the best! LOVE that you made some great activities to go along with them! I could use these activities for so many different students on my caseload – I am split between preschool and elementary as well 🙂
Just finished reading The cold lady who swallowed some snow. My kiddos would love either of these books and the packets are so cute and colorful!
I forgot to leave my email address! It’s jmcches1ATithacaDOTedu
These packets look awesome! I love the Old Lady books and all your materials. Thank you! ericanovack@mac.com
Pick me pick me pick me! ( that me jumping up and down). These books are great for every age pre-k,elementary, MD- love them.
My email-bennerjm@roadrunner.com! Forgot!
I love the old lady books…i have them all! The repetitiveness works winners for my kids with cognitive delays! Would love to have either of these to use with them 🙂 Thank you! aravnhan@gmail.com
These activities look awesome. I love your packets! They are so thought out and address all my kiddos needs. Plus my kids LOVE them!
These both look awesome! I would love to use them in my room!
I love using these books in therapy. I would love to win a copy of the packet! Thanks! abarker21(at)gmail.com
I would love these materials! cleavitt@tds.net
I love these books especially for preschoolers. They love them! klbreen@embarqmail.com
I love the old lady books and some resources would be great!
These aar awesome! We love the Old Lady books!
I love the old lady series! Great books to use in therapy and this packet would be perfect! Thanks for another great packet!
Drapsonshultz@gmail.com
Your materials are great! Nice job!
Stacy B.
grandedecaff@yahoo.com
You continue to amaze me! I’d love to win one of these units! Fingers crossed!
lgribler@columbus.rr.com
These are awesome! Any activities that tie in literature are so great with the kids! Not only does it work on their attention and “picture walk” skills when listening to the story, but then the cute images tie other targets into the book! Love it! amandalrosenthal@gmail.com
I love this series & both packets look awesome! Hope I win 🙂 Katerina D
These are a great series! My kids are always asking about the next Granny – even the kids who aren’t terribly motivated by books! Fantastic set you’ve made. Thanks!! maria.wellman@gmail.com. 🙂
I love using these books in therapy but don’t have materials for either of these versions yet… and I love the adaptions for older students too! kmd9x@virginia.edu
Thank you again – a lifesaver for this busy slp
These have always been one of my favorite book series too!
I love this series! You are so creative and make wonderful activities for my students- they get so excited! Thanks for sharing! mquattroneslp@gmail.com
Love these books. Would love to win a copy.
Jyoti Guerrera
jmediratta@yahoo.com
Love these! I homeschool my 8yo son, who has Autism, and I do a lot of his speech therapy myself (besides 1 hour a week of private speech). Santa brought him EVERY “Old Lady” book she could find, for Christmas…they are his favorite books! I’ve been looking for activities to do with him, along with reading the books. These would be wonderful!
mdlangmead at gmail dot com
What a cute idea! Looks great! lportener@gmail.com
I have all preschoolers on my caseload and they love these books! I could use these with everyone of my kiddos since your activities hit so many goal areas. I especially love the comprehension, object functions, temporal directions, and granny grammar. I work on these areas with so many of my kids! Great stuff!!!
Amandahosch@aea267.k12.ia.us
I NEED one of these packets lol. My students would absolutely love love love all of the activities that go along with either of these books. It’s one of my favorite series because so many speech/language goals are targeted!! kristinelambslp@gmail.com
I love these books! The variety of materials in these packets is awesome 🙂 Thanks again Jenna! lynsey.lobdell@gmail.com
I love this series and so do my kids! These materials look great, I know my kids will love it!
Kristina Smith
Kristina_Smith87@hotmail.com
I really like the variety of tasks in these books! Heidi.nowitzke@live.com
These are soooo adorable!!! I love them and would love a copy of them!!!!! There was an old lady books are some of my son’s favorite books. He has autism and isn’t very verbal. He is a hands on learner and I try to make activities like this for him, so it is easier for him to learn. I did an activity for There was a Cold lady who swallowed some snow, but it doesn’t compare to all the great material you have put together.
my email address is osimplypink@gmail.com
Thank you so much!! i’m excited that you made units with a speechie’s focus!!!
Love this series of books, and love your companion materials! Thanks for sharing your talents with the SLP community and all of our kiddos! KAR2549@aol.com
Love these books! This is the first year that I’ve used them in therapy and the kids have loved it and keep asking which one is next!! Would love to win your kits! ptownsend26250@yahoo.com
I would be *thrilled* to win! My students and I love the “Old Lady” series.
Have a great day!
Joanne
JoanneShankSLP@gmail.com
I love literature-based speech therapy, great stuff 🙂
These look super cute! Lisam1010@yahoo.com
I love these books and would be thrilled to win as well. yateanm@hotmail.com
Jenna- You continue to amaze me! I have loved all of your packets that I have purchased through TPT and these llok fantastic! I love using the “There Was an Old Lady…” stories in therapy. I have already added both packets to my wish list! Do you have plans to make packets for the other versions? Thanks! Sarah wrights@277apps.org
I love all the Old Lady books! So fun to use in therapy.
I would LOVE one of these packets!!! All of my students would love working on the activities. You create amazing materials to target a variety of goals! Thank you for all the effort you put in to making fantastic packets.
missiewagoner@gmail.com
Wow!! These are just perfect! As a first year grad student, these would be such great resources to add to my collection 🙂 cmdeluca9@hotmail.com
These packets look great! The “Old Lady” series of books are terrific for sequencing skills and so much more!
twmorlan@gmail.com
There Was a SLP who Swallowed a Blog.
Swallowed a blog and not a frog?
Yes, swallowed a blog ‘cuz her brain was in a fog.
Brain in a fog?
Yes, in a fog ‘cuz too much work.
Too much work?
Yes, too much work and not enough play.
So, it’s time to give her work away
These look fabulous! I have been using these books all year and winning one of these packets would be great. Email me at ams10@royell.org. Thanks!
I just ordered both those books. I would love to have those units to go with them!
These are my faaavorite!!!
Stephanie L
Jenna, these look amazing! I would love to win one of these! slp4kids@verizon.net
I love the “Old Lady” book series! I’ve used the books three times so far this school year…just did the Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow last week! The kids love the predictability of the books and even start reading along with me. I know that they will love this Valentine’s Day edition of the book! The materials included in this packet would be great for my students! DLH1125@hotmail.com
These look super cute and so functional! hearmyhandsllc@gmail.com
I LOVE this series of books! I use them all the time in my therapy sessions. I love that you have made activities for the older students. kristin@alixandkristin.com
your packets are so comprehensive, simply wonderful and inspiring! I have used a few of the old lady books but neither of these. These packets would be a great reason to use them. apgled@gmail.com
I just bought the Rose book yesterday! Might have to buy this one even if I don’t win it. Super cute! 🙂 saraheileenivy@gmail.com
I’m a first year SLP and the Clover book is the first book I bought! I would love to have this pack!!!
Granny Grammar! How cute! I love these books so much and use them with all of my groups!
cpnass@gmail.com
Great work as always, Jenna. Thanks for including some temporal concept work – seems many of my language kiddos need work on these skills. cdnslp@mail.com
forgot my email- jendh13@gmail.com
I love the Old Lady books!!! I want this pack! 🙂
teridiane9@sbcglobal.net
I love these sets! I would love to have either one! Kerri
kerri.welton@nebo.edu
I would love to win this packet!
I have at least two of the Old Lady books! I think your activities are absolutely wonderful! etafaga@yahoo.com
I love the Old Lady who swallowed the …. books. The kids think these are fun! I hope to win.
coreyelizabeth@yahoo.com
So cute! I would love this packet! Thanks for the giveaway! speechymusings@gmail.com
These look fabulous! I would love either!!
kamarti6@uncg.edu
I love these! I already use The Little Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick around Easter time, so this would be great for Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day! My kids are also working on formulating grammatically correct sentences, so I love the focus on grammar in these units. Looks great! giovannaparr@hotmail.com
I love these these books. I just found out about the rose book. My speech babies love these books too and enjoy trying to guess what she will eat next!
Lcherry1483@gmail.com
I love the old lady series too! My kindergarteners would love the activities in these packets! K.vansluyk@gmail.com
These are thorough and amazing–cute too!!
jpasqua@hazlet.org
great idea! I love the parts of speech activity
lampleychristy@bellsouth.net
All your products are amazing! Would love to use these with my preschoolers! sherlykennedy@gmail.com
Great series!! You do an awesome job putting these together!!
These look great. I would love to use these with my students. margaretshearer@comcast.net
I absolutely LOVE these books, and your companion packs look wonderful! Thanks so much for the giveaway!
Raesspeechspot@gmail.com
These materials look great! I really like the comprehension and possessive pronoun materials! My kiddos love the old lady books! Thanks for the opportunity! Rachel.b.miller@gmail.com
These look perfect to use with my older students!
Sherie M
Oooo another great packet! Would love to use these with my class language groups! allisonltrent@gmail.com
These are wonderful books that provide great language opportunities for kids. Thanks for making these packets!
Love this series and all the awesome language and speech skills you can work on! I wonder if they sell them in a whole box set?! Does anyone know? scheid.jordan@gmail.com
I love the “old lady” series books. I love the activities, and how the same books can be used with young and older students. jlshimab@yahoo.com
i love the old lady books. There are so many to work with and my students love them.
I have so many students who could benefit from the sentence building activities! So many unique activities in one packet! ldemas25@gmail.com
Wow!! this post has so many goodies! Old Lady theme is so much fun for the kids!
As an SLP student, I find your blog so full of great ideas that I can’t wait to try with my clients! I start with my first ever client in a few short days, and I can’t wait. smoker.k@gmail.com
I am in grad school in Louisiana and would LOVE to win a freebie! I love all of your products. Thank you for sharing your great ideas! I am planning on working in the schools one day as well and love to treat myself to a packet on your teacher’s pay teacher’s page every now and then! Could definitely use a freebie! #brokegradstudent
email: abigailrenee@me.com
I just ordered 12 of the Old Lady Who Swallowed books. Now I need some of these activities. azann001@hotmail.com (zero-zero-one)
These are some of my favorite books! I need to buy the rose one!
My kids love the Old Lady books!!! erin.bellinder@gmail.com
I love using the old lady books with my preschoolers, and I think it’s great that you made some activities geared toward k-5!
I love the Old Lady books! I think they are favorites of the kiddos too!
These are my favorite books! Love your activities!
I absolutely love the Old Lady books. They work great for my students!
Rebecca
Talking With Rebecca
I love the Old Lady books. Thanks for the giveaway!
ssjvarga@yahoo.com
This looks amazing! What a great ideas!
Jmmcafee24@gmail.com
Would love to win this! I love all the old lady books and you also just made me realize I don’t have the rose one!
ae_toupal@yahoo.com
I am super excited to check these out! These books make for some of my favorite therapy activities. ommyhead@yahoo.com
I love using these books in therapy! alyssa.stabenow@nebo.edu
Love these books! Tammy.Cline@k12.sd.us
These are just what I’m looking for! I created my own unit for the Rose book, but I haven’t started on the Clover one. You’ve saved me some time!! sievers.k@gmail.com
I love these books for my self contained classrooms and gen Ed groups. Thanks for always coming up with great therapy materials for SLPs. This packet looks awesome. Love the variety of materials. K_nezworski@yahoo.com
These look awesome, and I do love using literature in therapy. Thank you for making these!
I love how you make so many themed products. I am able to constantly use new items and keep the kids interested! pelletier_06@hotmail.com
Great activities to go with a great series.
These are AMAZING! Thank you for putting in such hard work!
Awesome companion packs. These stories are my kids’ favorites and that’s across the board for all my age groups. You make awesome materials and I can’t thank you enough. Oh and congrats on being one of the 10 Freebies on the TPT email this week!
Everyone loves an old woman! The activities look like fun!
looks great . love all the options
Oh man, I LOVE the little old lady stories! I was actually just recommending the series to some of my parents.
frannievslp at gmail
Love using books in therapy and I’m a huge fan of the Old Lady! Thanks for the opportunity :0)
Great packets! Can’t wait to see what you come up with next.
These books are great and would love to use them with my students!
Wow! Just found your store and it all looks fantastic! smileyhappychan (at) yahoo (dot) com. Thanks!
These books are one of my favorite go to books to address multiple speech and language activities. I love the collection and I recently added to my collection There was an old lady who swallowed some books for the beginning of the year. I love addressing and working on my kid’s goal and objectives using theme related books. I work with children with hearing loss and A large percentage of my caseload is preschool. These books are great for working on tenses, auditory memory, auditory recall, sequencing, predicting, vocabulary, inferences and so many other goals. Your book companion packets look very detailed and an awesome extension to these books. Thank you for creating them!
I forgot my email. amanda.villosio@gmail.com. Thanks again!
YAY!!! I was hoping you would do a series for these 🙂 I got the WHOLE collection for Christmas and started reading one a month back in September (old lady swallows the books). The PK population LOVES them. Thanks for the giveaway – cheerios626@aim.com
I was in LTC for 8 years and just switched to the school system in November. Your blog has been my saving grace. Thank you!! hibbertmj@gmail.com
These are so great! I love using these books in therapy, and these activities look so fun. Thanks for the giveaway- eonur2010@gmail.com 🙂
Oh my goodness, I have all of the Old Lady books as well and I have purchased Old Lady materials from other SLP bloggers, but your packets are definitely more of what I needed. You definitely went above and beyond this time, I just hope you keep making them for the rest of the books (which I’m sure you will!) : ) whitneybaumert@hotmail.com
These activities look wonderful! I have used your Thanksgiving Social Skills group of activities and Pragmatic Walk in Your Shoes activities with my students and they loved it! I would LOVE to use these language activities along with the books in upcoming therapy:) We used the Oldy Lady Who Swallowed a Pumpkin in the Fall and the kids thought it was hilarious. Thank you!!! meridith.redd@gmail.com
I love the Old Lady books! My grandma use to sing us the song ALL the time when we were young. Thanks for the chance to win!
Tracey Froemke
tracey dot froemke at sendit dot nodak dot edu
These look so great! My students would love these activities. Thanks for all of your great ideas! marisa.kimmel@gmail.com
Wow…these look awesome! I love your materials. You have inspired me to make some of my own. westhue@gmail.com
Love these books and your materials!
vota86@gmail.com
I LOVE these and my kids LOVE these books! I would love to win these!! Thanks for the opportunity! Love your blog! 🙂
Torey723@yahoo.com
You are truly creative! I have enjoyed some of the products I have purchased so far!!! Would love these.
Thanks.. patterenti@gmail.com
I will definitely be adding these two story book companions to my wish list on TPT. Just from the previews they looks like great packets and these are such fun stories.
christinecaldejon@gmail.com
So glad I found your blog! Im a brand new Slp-Assistant in an elementary, middle, and high school! My biggest caseload is in the elementary which happens to be my absolute favorite. These story book companions would be a great asset to my limited supplies!! Thanks for all the great ideas 🙂
tlillyb@yahoo.com
Pick me! Pick me!! I would love to use these with my Kinders!! speechforme at gmail dot com
These are some of my student’s favorite books. I would love to have a copy of your latest production. tporter@nwaea.org
My students love these books! leahyasu@aol.com
I love your activities, and I have given your blog to several of my grad school friends for ideas. I would LOVE to win one of your units! shackney@harding.edu
Not sure if your giveaway is over yet-but I definitely want these! They are going on my wishlist if I don’t win :-). They look awesome, Jenna!
Nicole
allisonspeechpeeps.blogspot.com
Have you thought about doing The Old Lady that Swallowed some Books or something that we could use year round? Just curious! These are great by the way!
Great activity! I just recently purchased these books! I would love to use this! Christine, crlewis0527@gmail.com
I love both! These books are so fun to use! Karla.l.Davis@gmail.com