There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Snow Sequencing Activity

If your kids love the There Was an Old Lady books as much as mine do, they are sure to have fun doing this There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Snow Sequencing Activity.

After reading the book There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow by Lucille Colandro, your young learners will put the pictures in order.

Book activities like this one are an engaging and entertaining way for your kids to work on retelling, sequencing, fine motor skills, and more!

Sequencing is important in helping beginning readers comprehend what they have read.

In this activity, your kids need to recall the order in which the old lady swallowed the parts of a snowman.

Using the plastic links and connecting the pictures together will help your children to develop their fine motor skills too.

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Getting Ready To Use The There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Snow Sequencing Activity:

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What’s Included:

7 Story Sequencing Cards

What Else Is Needed:

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow by Lucille Colando
White Card Stock
Scissors
Laminator
Laminating Pouches
Hole Punch
Plastic Links

To prepare this book-inspired activity for your kids, fill out the form at the bottom of this page.

Next, laminate the cards so your children can use them over and over.

Then, cut them apart. Finally, punch holes on all of the black dots.

How To Use The There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Snow Sequencing Activity:

After reading the book There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow by Lucille Colando, your beginning readers can retell the story and the order that the old lady swallowed the parts of a snowman.

If needed, your kids can go back through the book and look at the pictures to recall the items.

Then, your children will start with the old lady and connect all of the pictures in sequential order using plastic links.

The first thing that the old lady swallowed in this story is snowballs, so your students will connect the pictures of the old lady and snowballs together.

Next, the old lady swallows a pipe, so your kids would connect the snowballs and pipe pictures together.

Your kids will continue attaching the pictures in sequential order until all of them are connected.

This There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Snow Sequencing Activity is a fun, hands-on way for beginning readers to work on sequencing and fine motor skills.