Articulation Language questions Descriptive terms Vocabulary Language activities Speech activities Sequences The Apple Pie Tree Author: Zoe Hall Illustrator: Shari Halpern Publisher: Blue Sky Press/Scholastic Articulation targets: S/Z R L TH Medial Consonants That Through Their The With Feathers They Them Nothing Sister Best Guess Spring Leaves Nest Buds Blossoms Some Days Rains Strong Safe Used Soon Visit Basket Us Sprinkle Cinnamon Puts Last Smells Tastes Delicious Yourself Sister Tree Grows Part Spring Robins Are Flower Their Covered Feathers Breezes Rains Hard Strong Round Brim Sprinkle Yourself Every Year Our Winter Brown Bare Branch Guarding Break Through Ground Birds Green Where Bigger Red Ready Sugar Over Apple Look Building Flower Loudly Blossoms Blow Petals Fall Little Fly Small Low Fill Help Pile Shell Last Smells Delicious Yourself SH/CH/J Watch Branch Chirp Just Eggshells Teach Shell Sugar Delicious Apple Winter Sister Robins Building Tiny Appear Loudly Guarding Open Baby Eggshells Begin Breezes Petals Mama Papa Branches Summer Bigger Autumn Picked Basket Into Sprinkle Cinnamon Sugar Over Oven Cooked Eaten Tastes Delicious Nothing Yourself
Language Questions to ask during the story: 1. What ingredients for apple pie do you see? 2. Which ingredient grows on a tree? 3. How does the tree look in winter? 4. In what season is the tree brown and bare? 5. What happens to the tree in spring? 6. In what season do leaves begin to grow on the tree? 7. Why are the birds building a nest? 8. Why do the robins chirp loudly? 9. What do the flower buds look like? 10. Where do the small green apples grow? 11. Are the small green apples ready to eat? 12. What happens to the apples in the autumn? 13. Why are the branches bending low? 14. How do you know when the apples are ready to be picked? 15. How did the people reach the apples high up in the tree? 16. What are the people going to do with the apples? 17. What has to be done to the apples to use them in the pie? Other questions: 1. What are ingredients? 2. Why do you think birds build nests in trees? 3. What are the bees doing on the blossoms? 4. Why is the title of this story silly? Can apple pie grow on trees? Descriptive terms: Brown Bare Tiny Pink Hard Strong Small Green Big Round Red Low Vocabulary: 1. Ingredients 2. Bare 3. Robins 4. Blossoms 5. Brim
Language activities: Syntax/Critical Thinking Put poems about apples onto sentence strips and cut into 1-2 word phrases. Students must reconstruct the poems using context, punctuation, and poetic conventions as clues (capitalization of each line, rhyme patterns). See http://www.kinderkorner.com/apple.html for apple poems Plurals A Pie Full of Plurals from p62 September Monthly Organizers by The Mailbox (TEC60984) Semantics Die-cut apples on cardstock each cut into 2 pieces, puzzle-style. Write word pairs (rhyming words, synonyms, antonyms, word associations, etc) on the apples and have students pair them back up. Categorization p55 Thematic Unit: Apples by Teacher Created Materials. Listening/Following Directions An Orchard Map worksheet from p57 Thematic Unit: Apples by Teacher Created Materials. WH-questions A is for Apple game board from p53-54 Thematic Unit: Apples by Teacher Created Materials. Sequencing o p50 and 58 Thematic Unit: Apples by Teacher Created Materials. o p42 September Monthly Organizers by The Mailbox (TEC60984) Various Language targets o from Volume II Say and Do Language Unit Worksheets by Super Duper p16-23 o language expansion p9 Year-Round Literature for Language and Artic by Super Duper Speech Activities: Apple-shaped stress ball Teacher says a word/phrase/sentence. When students hear their target sound, they raise their hand. The ball is tossed to them, and they repeat the word/phrase/sentence. Continue, with students tossing the ball to each other as the therapist uses items containing their sounds. Apple game p15 Year-Round Literature for Language and Artic by Super Duper Apple Wheel p39-40 from Thematic Unit: Apples by Teacher Created Materials. Students draw a word/picture containing target sound in each section of the wheel and assemble. Then they use each word in a sentence. Apple Bingo available on Materials Page 3, www.speakingofspeech.com Homework worksheets o p3 of 168 Seasonal and Holiday Open-Ended Artic Worksheets by Super Duper o p18 of Year-Round Literature for Language and Artic by Super Duper o p108 of Month-by-Month Artic Carry-Over Fun! by Super Duper
Sequencing: The tree 1. The apple tree is bare and brown in winter. 2. The apple tree grows leaves in spring. 3. Tiny pink blossoms grow all over the tree. 4. The flower petals fall to the ground. 5. Small green apples grow where the flowers used to be. 6. The apples get bigger and bigger in summer. 7. In autumn the apples are red and ready to be picked. The birds 1. Robins build a nest in a tree. 2. The robins guard the eggs. 3. The baby robins break out of the eggs. 4. The baby robins begin to grow feathers. 5. The mama and papa robins teach the baby birds to fly. 6. The robins stay safe from the rain in their nest. 7. The baby robins have grown up but they visit every day. Baking pie 1. Peel the apples. 2. Cut them up. 3. Pile them into a pie shell. 4. Sprinkle cinnamon and sugar over the top. 5. Put the pan in the oven. 6. The pie is cooked and ready to be eaten.
The apple tree is bare and brown in winter. The apple tree grows leaves in spring. Tiny pink blossoms grow all over the tree. The flower petals fall to the ground.
Small green apples grow where the flowers had been. The apples get bigger and bigger in summer. In Autumn, the apples are red and ready to be picked.
Robins build a nest in a tree. The robins guard the eggs. Baby robins break out of the eggs. The baby robins begin to grow feathers.
The mama and papa robins teach the baby birds to fly. The robins stay safe from the rain in their nest. The baby robins have grown up, but they visit every day. Put the top crust on.
Peel the apples. Cut the apples up. Pile the apples into a pie shell. Sprinkle cinnamon and sugar over the top. Put the pan in the oven. The pie is cooked and ready to be eaten.