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 and First Grade class in autumn!

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.

APPLE TROUBLE ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

Your Kindergarten and First Grade students will have lots of fun while learning key literacy skills using these Apple Trouble activities in the classroom. This resource includes companion activities that will help your students practice digging into the story to define the story elements, character traits, and setting. In this activity, students will think about the main character, Hedgehog, and will reflect on things in the story that she sees, feels, thinks, and does.

This book activities unit includes lots of activities, so you can easily differentiate to suit your students' learning abilities and needs. In this activity, students think about the story and match the characters to things that they have said.

This fun activity has students illustrating a story retell, where they draw about what happens next in the story. It allows students to think about the story flow and deepens their comprehension skills.

Your students will love the theme of helping others. In these activities, students compare and contrast characters in the story and make text to self connections as they share about a time when they have helped someone in need.

These literacy activities allow students to search for answers in the story, as they find the Story Clues and as they determine the Cause and Effect relationship to events that occur in the book.

This book study unit is packed with engaging literacy companion activities. It can be used as a whole class activity, 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!

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!