I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Illustrated by Glen Rounds
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This is a story about an old lady who swallows fly. After the fly she swallows something to catch the fly. This pattern continues throughout the book. This book is very repetitive and it rhymes. It is a funny story that children love. The illustrations are very simple but also comical. An activity you can do with your child is to add up all of the things she ate. Your child will be naturally curious about how many animals the old lady ate! After each time she eats something new have your child create a math problem to figure out how many she ate in total.
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Readability
The readability is of this book is at a first grade level. There are some tricky words that your children may need help with but they should be able to read this for the most part on their own.
In every hundred words there is an average 15.67 sentences and 121.33 syllables. Using the graph to the left that puts this at a first grade level.
The readability is of this book is at a first grade level. There are some tricky words that your children may need help with but they should be able to read this for the most part on their own.
In every hundred words there is an average 15.67 sentences and 121.33 syllables. Using the graph to the left that puts this at a first grade level.
Chrysanthemum
By Kevin Henkes
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This book tells the story of a girl named Chrysanthemum. She loves her name and thinks it is perfect until she goes to school and is made fun of for it. Her classmates say that thirteen letters is too long for a name and it is a name for a flower which is not a real name. Now she hates her name, however, when all of the students find out that their music teacher has a really long name that is also a type of flower they all envy Chrysanthemum's amazing name. This book has won a few awards and has a really cute story. To incorporate math into it have your child count the letters in their own name as well as yours and any siblings. They can even count the number of letters in the names of the other characters in the story and compare and contrast them.
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Readability
This book is at a third grade reading level. This book has a lot of long names which is why it is at such a high level. With some help from an adult your child should be able to read a lot of it though.
For every hundred words there are an average of 15.33 sentences and 151.67 syllables.
This book is at a third grade reading level. This book has a lot of long names which is why it is at such a high level. With some help from an adult your child should be able to read a lot of it though.
For every hundred words there are an average of 15.33 sentences and 151.67 syllables.