Theme: Apples

Grade Levels: Preschool-JK-SK

Book Selection

. I Am an Apple by Jean Marzollo [poem Hello Reader Science Level 1]

. A Day at the Apple Orchard by Megan Faulkner (2005, Scholastic Canada)

. Apple Farmer Annie by M. Wellington [includes recipe]

. The Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall

. Apples and Pumpkins by Anne Rockwell

. Ten Red Apples by Pat Hutchins [counting in rhyming book and onomatopoeias]

. Apples by Gail Gibbons [non-fiction]

. Alligator Arrived with Apples A Potluck Alphabet Feast by Crescent Dragonwagon

Learning Activities:

 Activity One: Awareness of alphabet Book

 Activity Two: Repeated Interactive Read-aloud with script for teacher’s modeling of story

comprehension

 Activity Three: Interactive-Read-Aloud for Apples by Gail Gibbons

 Activity Four: Drawing Science Concepts

 Activity Five: Apples Literacy Center

 Activity Six: Art & Crafts Centre: finger and hand printing

 Activity Seven: Speech Bubbles

 Activity Eight: Shared Reading “I Like Apples”

 Activity Nine: Theme Journal Writing

 Activity Ten: Poetry Recitation

 Activity Eleven: Poetry Recitation

 Activity Twelve: Cooking with literacy recipes

 Activity Thirteen: Choral Reading

 Activity Fourteen: Interactive Writing

 Activity Fifteen: Class Big Book

 Activity Sixteen: Alphabet Centre: word making with the letters of the word “apple”

 Activity Seventeen: Story Acting and Drawing of “Ten Apples on Top and Up”

 Activity Eighteen: Crafts

Teaching Tools:

 Suggestions for preparation and the development of other learning units such as a yearlong

theme on apples and bees, support for ELLs, research-based guidelines to teach

new vocabulary,

 Choral reading for Ten Apples

 Interactive writing

 Script for Reading-Aloud of Apples by Gail Gibbons

 Chart for “I am An Apple” with colour prompts

Connections to other thematic units: Fall, bees

Length of Text: 14 pages

File Format: PDF

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