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“Apples” Informational Bundle

1st Grade • Lesson Plan Bundle
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Quick Facts

Subject: ELA, Informational

Type: Lesson Plan Bundle

Skills: First Grade bundle of 3 lessons (25-60 minutes each) using Apples by Gail Gibbons. Lessons include:

  • Shared read to practice using illustrations to determine key details
  • creating and labeling a diagram
  • writing an expository text.

Materials Needed: Required:

  • copy of the picture book Apples, by Gail Gibbons
  • blank paper  and writing paper for each student
  • pencil, crayons/colored pencils, chart paper or document camera/whiteboard

Printable Resources:

Optional: printable "Exit Slips" as an assessment component (1 copy per student)

CCSS: RI.1.7, W.1.2, L.1.1F

File Type: PDF Document

Lesson Plan Description

This ELA bundle of lesson plans is broken down into 3 separate segments (25-60 minutes each).  Students will:

  • Segment 1: focus on using illustrations and details in a text to describe key ideas and complete a chart using adjectives to describe apples with a sentence frame.
  • Segment 2: identify diagrams and their labels, as well as understand that labels give the reader information about the picture, draw a diagram of an apple and label it appropriately
  • Segment 3: students will write informative/explanatory text in which they all about apples based on information from the text

These lessons can be taught over the span of a half day or you can use the lessons independently, broken up over several days.