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Apple Star, The

6-pack

Author: Cecilia Cortés
ISBN: 9780478123333

Grade Level: 2, 1, K
Reading Level: B, A
Strategy/Skill: Vocabulary and word study, Using texts as models for own writing, Phonics, Comprehension strategies
Theme/Topic: Math, Food
Classification: Nonfiction
Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

This story surveys children’s preferences for different colored apples and dishes that can be made with apples.

 

 

Building Basic Skills

  • High-frequency words – The, I, like, the, we
  • Content words – Apple, Star, red, green, yellow, apple, apples, pie, sauce, cake, jelly, star
  • Repeated phrase – I like
  • Phonics and phonemic awareness – a (apple, apples), s (sauce, star)
  • Punctuation – periods, capital letters, exclamation point

 

 

Skills and Strategies

The Apple Star can be used to introduce and reinforce:

  • responding to simple questions about the story content
  • reading a variety of simple high-frequency words in context
  • recognizing the relationship between letters and their sounds
  • innovating on the story to create own versions of stories, plays, and songs.

 

 

Materials

  • copies of words and punctuation for this book from page 91, cut and ready for use
  • copies of BLM, pencil, markers
  • apples, knife
  • paper, markers

 

 

For more information please see our Lesson Plan

Price: $24.00


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