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After Reading Aloud Talk About It! Discuss how the apple’s phases are part of an ongoing cycle. Encourage children to use the last page to tell a story about an apple. What is the apple in the beginning? What happens to the bud? What helps it grow and change? How do we use apples? Why is the seed important? Food I Like The cut-paper art brings a very dynamic dimension to the book I Am an Apple. Invite children to make their own cut- or torn- paper food. Also provide paper plates and images of food cut out of magazines. Invite children to choose their favorite foods to glue onto the paper plates. Label the plates with the name of the child and his or her favorite food. Reread Distribute the punched-out character cards to children. As you reread the book, invite children to hold up the relevant images when you read the related part of the book. English Language Development Focus on the page that shows the red, redder, and reddest apples. Share other comparison words that end in the same way, such as big, bigger, and biggest; fast, faster, and fastest; and hot, hotter, and hottest. Use gestures to help illustrate the meanings of the words. Sharing common word structures helps English learners recognize meaningful patterns in the new language. Research Connection Studies show that children’s curiosity is a predictor of later academic successes. Foster children’s natural curiosity by relating it to trying new foods. Invite children to share stories about a time they tried a new food and how they felt when they tried it. Challenge students to try even one bite of something new next time it is offered to them.
I Am an Apple explains the life cycle of an apple from bud to tree and everything in between. The pictures show children the meanings of unfamiliar words.
Ask children if they like apples. Have they ever seen apples grow on trees? Invite them to perform a fingerplay that tells how apples grow. Apple Tree Way up high in the apple tree, (hands above the head, swaying like a tree) Two big apples smiled at me. (big smile, looking down) I shook the tree as hard as I could. (shake the tree) Down came the apples, (arms above head and then“fall down”) Mmmm—they were good! (pretend to eat apple and then pat stomach) Share the Big Book Introduce I Am an Apple Bring in a real apple to show the children. Cut the apple in half and pass it around for children to touch and smell.
I’m so glad we’re together and will be talking about food that we eat. Who likes apples? Today we will read a book about apples.
Read Interactively This book focuses on phases of an apple’s growth. Ask children if they have ever seen the buds or the blossoms on an apple tree. Read the beginning slowly, pausing to see if children understand the apple’s growth starting from the bud.
What is happening to the apple now? How has it changed?
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