Apples are delicious, nutritious, and provide the perfect inspiration for 50 pages of lessons and activities to supplement your science, reading, writing, and math curriculum. With this printable Apples Pack, you can teach your students about a year in the life of an apple tree, build reading comprehension and writing skills with mini-books and a manuscript practice page, and build math skills with simple counting, addition, and subtraction problems.

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What’s Included?

• The Tasting Apples activity will get your students excited for the theme and give them a chance to share their opinions and preferences when it comes to apple taste and appearance.  
• Four leveled mini-books: Apples All Around, An Apple Tree’s Year, its Spanish companion Manzano, manzano, and The Seasons of an Apple Tree, offer differentiated reading levels (Guided Reading levels B–E) for students with a range of reading proficiency. Scaffold independent reading by starting students off in guided reading groups, then challenge your readers with the higher level mini-books as their proficiency grows.
• The One More Apple and Apples in the Tree math mini-books let students practice and solve “plus-one” addition problems and simple subtraction problems, while the Apple-Picking Time glyph activity helps build their understanding of positional concepts.
• Your students will learn more about how apple trees change with the seasons with the content-building learning song, An Apple Tree Year, and the Watching Apples Grow mini-poster. And they can each construct their own Around-the-Year Apple Tree Hat with a craftivity that celebrates apple trees, no matter the season.
• Worms may not be desirable in *real* apples, but they’re a fun addition to the Ripe Red Apple craft, and the interactive story Little Green Worm Finds a Home. This cute story will help students build listening comprehension as they follow along with playful manipulatives.

The Apples Pack also includes a draw and write reproducible, handwriting practice page, shared informative writing activity, and apple-themed stationery. That’s a lot of apple action jam-packed into one ready-to-go, easy-to-use packet! Get it now!

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