Characteristics of the Text Genre • Realistic Fiction
Text Structure • First-person plural narrative• Focused on a single topic
Content • Class trip to pick apples• Washing, cutting, cooking apples to make applesauce
Themes and Ideas • It is fun to pick apples and cook them.• There are different ways to eat apples.
Language and Literary Features
• Meaning provided through integration of pictures with text. • Simple straightforward language
Sentence Complexity • Repetitive sentence pattern, changing only one word on each page• Five-word sentences• Simple sentence structure: We can ____ the apples.
Vocabulary • Words for actions with apples: pick, wash, cut, cook, eatWords • Mostly words with one syllable; one two-syllable word: apples
• Easy high-frequency words repeated: we, the Illustrations • Illustrations closely linked to text on all pages.
Book and Print Features • Five pages of text; illustrations on every page• Good spacing between words• One exclamation
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Applesby Rachel Gideon
Fountas-Pinnell Level ARealistic FictionSelection SummaryChildren pick apples on a class trip and then cook them for a classroom treat.
Build BackgroundRead the title to the children and talk with them about what the children in the cover illustration are doing. Ask children about apple picking and other fruit harvesting. Ask questions such as: Did you ever go apple picking? What did you do with the apples you picked?
Introduce the TextGuide children through the text, noting important ideas and helping with unfamiliar language and vocabulary. Point out the repetition of the words We can and the apples in each sentence. Here are some suggestions:
Page 2: Explain that in this story, children go on a class trip to pick apples.Suggested language: Turn to page 2. Here are the children on their class trip. Where did they go? The woman with the children is their teacher. The children say: We can pick the apples. Say we. What letter would you expect to see fi rst in we? Find the word we, say it, and put your fi nger under it. What do you think the children will do with the apples they pick?
Page 3: Turn to page 3. Where are the children now? What are the children doing? The children say: We can wash the apples. Say the. The begins with the letters th. Find the word the, say it, and put your fi nger under it.
Page 4: Remind children that they can use information in the pictures to help them read. Look at the picture on this page. What does the teacher help the children do with the apples? What will the children say on this page?
Now turn back to the beginning of the story. Read to fi nd out what the children make with the apples.
ReadNow have children read Apples softly while pointing under each word. Observe children as they read.
Respond to the TextPersonal ResponseAsk children to share their personal responses to the story. Begin by asking what they liked best about the story, or what they found interesting. Suggested language: What would you like best about a class trip to pick apples?
Ways of ThinkingAs you discuss the text, make sure children understand these teaching points:
Thinking Within the Text Thinking Beyond the Text Thinking About the Text
• Children go on a class trip to pick apples.
• They wash, cut, cook, and eat the apples with their teacher in the classroom.
• It is fun to pick apples and cook them.
• There are different ways to eat apples.
• You can learn things on class trips and have fun too!
• The pictures show different things to do with apples.
• The children are shown on the trip and inside their classroom.
Choices for SupportConcepts of PrintPractice early reading behaviors such as pointing under each word and reading from left to right.
Phonemic Awareness and Word WorkProvide practice as needed with words and sounds, using one of the following activities:
• Listening Game Materials: pairs of words. Have children listen for words that rhyme. Have children raise their hands if the words rhyme, and keep their hands in their laps if the words do not rhyme. Say pairs of words, for example, pick and sick, pick and eat, cut and nut, cut and wash, cook and book, cook and trip.
• Tracing Letters Materials: magnetic or cardboard letters or letter cards. Have children choose a letter, say the name, and trace the letter.
Writing About ReadingCritical ThinkingRead the directions for children on BLM 25.7 and guide them in answering the questions.
RespondingRead aloud the questions at the back of the book and help children complete the activities.
Target Comprehension SkillText and Graphic Features
Target Comprehension Skill Tell children that as they read they can think
about how the words go with the picture on the page. Model how to think about text and graphic features:
Think Aloud
What do the pictures show me in this book? On page 3, I see a girl holding apples under the water. The picture shows me that she is washing apples. The words on page 3 say: We can wash the apples. That’s how the words go with the picture.
Practice the SkillHave children tell how the picture on another page in the book goes with the words on that page.
Writing PromptRead aloud the following prompt. Have children draw and write their response, using the writing prompt on page 6.
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English Language LearnersCultural Support Some children may be unfamiliar with the tradition of picking your own apples at an apple orchard or with the food, applesauce. Explain that families and schools go to orchards to be outside and have the experience of seeing how things grow. One of the simplest things to cook with apples is applesauce.
Oral Language DevelopmentCheck the children’s comprehension, using a dialogue that best matches their English profi ciency level. Speaker 1 is the teacher, Speaker 2 is the child.
Beginning/ Early Intermediate Intermediate Early Advanced/ Advanced
Speaker 1: Point to a child picking an apple.
Speaker 2: [Points to child picking an apple]
Speaker 1: Point to a child washing apples.
Speaker 2: [Points to child washing apples]
Speaker 1: What do the children do on their class trip?
Speaker 2: They pick apples.
Speaker 1: What does the teacher do after the apples are washed?
Speaker 2: She cuts them and cooks them.
Speaker 1: What do the children and teacher do with the apples they pick?
Speaker 2: They wash and cut and cook them. Then they eat the applesauce.
