Tiny Little Fly

My oh my! Big elephant tramping, big hippo rolling, big tiger snatching, but off flies the fly…

From Michael Rosen and Kevin Waldron comes this great read-aloud story for the very young that chalks one up for the little guy.

Teaching Ideas and Resources:

Can you think of synonyms for ‘tiny’ and ‘little’? Can you make a list of antonyms?
The word ‘fly’ can be a noun and a verb. Can you think of other words like this?
Make a new set of pages for the story, in which a new animal wants to catch the fly.
Can you rewrite the story from the point of view of the fly?
Try to find the rhyming words in the story.
Can you find any examples of onomatopoeia?
Make a sequel to the book. What happens to Tiny Little Fly next?
Make a list of words to describe each of the animals in the story.
Look at the different types of punctuation used in the book. What types of punctuation have been used? What types of punctuation haven’t been used?

Find out the approximate sizes of the animals mentioned in the story. How tall are they? Show this information on a chart / graph?
Carry out a survey of your class’ favourite animal.

Compare each of the animals mentioned in the story. How are they similar / different?

Use painting software to draw a picture of one of the animals featured in the story.

Look at the use of lines to show the movement of the fly in the illustrations. Find out about ways that artists show movement in their pictures.

The animals all want to catch Tiny Little Fly. What would have been a nicer way to behave?