This is a twist on the familiar book, THERE WAS AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A FLY. Children know the sequence of events until the old lady swallows something impossible (in this story, the entire ocean) and they delight when it all comes back out. This is a great book for teaching sequence and fantasy. I wrote a free teacher PDF, a 38 page printable with activities for school or home. FREE ( )

This book is about an old lady who swallows a trout and swallows so much to catch the trout that she swallows the whole ocean.

It was about a women who swallowed a trout. As the book progressed she continued to swallow other animals like an outer and a salmon. She then swallows a whale and then a boat. In the end she spits them up and they swim out of her.

This book tells a story about an old women who swallows animals that live in the ocean. ( )

There was an old lady that swallowed trout. She swallowed a salmon to catch the trout. She then swallowed an otter to catch the salmon. The list goes on and on until she eventually swallowed the whole ocean. She opened her mouth and let everything out. ( )