Apple Trouble Book Activities and Craft

APPLE TROUBLE

Apple Trouble by Ragnhild Scamell is a wonderful fall story about friendship and helping others. It is a great book to read with your Kindergarten, First Grade, or Second Grade class in autumn! This entertaining read aloud, paired with these book companion activities, will help students practice important literacy and reading comprehension skills in a fun and engaging way.

APPLE TROUBLE BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

In the story, Hedgehog has been preparing for her winter sleep when she has some apple trouble. A juicy red apple falls onto Hedgehog's back, and gets stuck in her quills. She can no longer fit into her winter nest. What will she do now? Hedgehog's friends take turns trying to help her get the apple unstuck from her quills. Unfortunately for Hedgehog, the ideas her friends come up with only make matters worse. As the story goes along, Hedgehog's troubles continue to compound, making the story comical and fun. Your class will love the story's silliness and will appreciate how the characters try to help their friend in need.

This book study unit is packed with fun activities that will help your Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade students with story elements, making predictions, character traits, making text to self connections, author's purpose, main idea, making inferences, vocabulary, writing, giving opinions and advice, problem and solution, story retell, reading comprehension, and much more!

These activities can be used for whole class instruction, during small group guided reading time, as individual student work, or as part of a book club. Copy a pack for each student and you're ready to go!

This Apple Trouble book companion will save you tons of planning time, is no prep, and is great to leave for a sub!

Want to make sure you are hitting the reading standards for Kindergarten, First Grade, or Second Grade? This resource includes ELA standards charts for Common Core, TEKS and VA SOL, showing you exactly which skills your students are learning while doing these activities!

APPLE TROUBLE CRAFT

Your students can make this craft by doing a story retell, or they can write about their favorite part of the book. This craftivity makes a fun fall bulletin board display to showcase student learning!