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Written by Joy Cowley
Illustrations by Elizabeth Fuller-Fulton
The Joy Cowley Collection
Mrs Wishy-Washy and the Big Farm Fair
This edition is published under the imprint of
Nelson Education Ltd.
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Ontario M1K 5G4.
© Text Joy Cowley
© Illustrations Elizabeth Fuller-Fulton
Publisher: Frances McBeath
Designer: Sacha McCoskrie
Consultants: Helen Thompson and Mary Wise, RT: Lits
The levelling and Teacher’s Notes provided are suggestions only.
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Mrs Wishy-Washy
and the
Big Farm Fair
Mrs Wishy-Washy has four rules.
1. Be clean.
2.Be neat.
3.Look tidy.
4.Smell sweet.
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3
Mrs Wishy-Washy has four rules.
1. Be clean.
2.Be neat.
3.Look tidy.
4.Smell sweet.
2
3
Today is the day
of the big farm fair.
4
The cow is not clean.
The pig is not neat.
The duck is not tidy.
They do NOT smell sweet.
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Today is the day
of the big farm fair.
4
The cow is not clean.
The pig is not neat.
The duck is not tidy.
They do NOT smell sweet.
5
“You are a mess!”
screams Mrs Wishy-Washy.
“You are a big disgrace!”
6
She finds a hose, a scrubbing brush,
and some rose soap.
“Come here!” she says.
7
“You are a mess!”
screams Mrs Wishy-Washy.
“You are a big disgrace!”
6
She finds a hose, a scrubbing brush,
and some rose soap.
“Come here!” she says.
7
Scrub, scrub, scrub!
The cow moans and groans.
8
Scrub, scrub, scrub!
The pig mumbles and grumbles.
9
Scrub, scrub, scrub!
The cow moans and groans.
8
Scrub, scrub, scrub!
The pig mumbles and grumbles.
9
Scrub, scrub, scrub!
The duck tries to fly away.
10
Mrs Wishy-Washy turns off the hose.
“That’s much better,” she says.
“Now it is time for the judges.”
11
Scrub, scrub, scrub!
The duck tries to fly away.
10
Mrs Wishy-Washy turns off the hose.
“That’s much better,” she says.
“Now it is time for the judges.”
11
The judges look at the cow.
“Very clean cow,” they say.
12
They look at the pig and the duck.
“Very neat pig! Very tidy duck!”
13
The judges look at the cow.
“Very clean cow,” they say.
12
They look at the pig and the duck.
“Very neat pig! Very tidy duck!”
13
Then the judges say,
“These animals smell like roses.
They are the cleanest, neatest,
tidiest, sweetest animals
at the big farm fair.”
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15
Then the judges say,
“These animals smell like roses.
They are the cleanest, neatest,
tidiest, sweetest animals
at the big farm fair.”
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15
“Well done, cow, pig, and duck!
Here are your prizes!”
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Mrs Wishy-Washy and the Big Farm Fair
Features of the text:
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Punctuation: speech marks, exclamation marks, bold print
Problem solving
Rhyming
Humour
Before Reading
• Ask the children to tell you what they know about a
competition at a farm fair.
• Ask the children to tell you about rules that they know.
• Ask, How would you get an animal ready to be judged at
a fair?
• Introduce the text: Mrs Wishy-Washy and the Big Farm
Fair.
• Look at the cover and title page. What clues do they give
about the story?
Reading the Text
• Ask the children to read the text quietly.
• Give them something specific to focus on. For example,
Read the book to find out how Mrs Wishy-Washy got the
animals ready for the fair.
• If necessary, guide the children’s reading of one or two
pages, then encourage them to read on quietly.
After Reading
• Focus on synonyms and antonyms. Look at pages 2, 3, and
5. Ask, What opposites can you think of for “clean”, “neat”,
“tidy”, and “sweet”?
• Look at page 6. Ask, Why does Mrs Wishy-Washy say that
the animals are a disgrace?
• Look at page 7. Ask, Why do you think Mrs Wishy-Washy
used rose soap?
• Look at page 14. Ask, Why did the judges award prizes to
the animals?
• Focus on suffixes. Look at page 14 and notice the -est suffix.
• Look at pages 2, 3, and 5. Notice the long vowel rimes
ee/ea.
• Notice rhyming patterns on pages 8 (oan) and 9 (umbles).
• Making meaning:
making personal
connections, prediction
• Analyzing the text:
visual literacy
• Children may draw
upon all four practices
during the reading of
the text. Help individual
children as necessary.
• Using the text:
considering how words
are used (vocabulary)
• Making meaning:
recall, inference,
drawing conclusions
• Cracking the code:
punctuation, compound
words, decoding
Today is the big farm fair.
But the animals
are not clean!
Level 17 • Word Count: 173
ISBN-13: 978-0-17-639073-0
ISBN-10: 0-17-639073-1
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