Golden Delicious: A Cinderella Apple Story

Written by Anna Egan Smucker

Illustrated by Kathleen Kemly

Pre-reading

• The teacher will have the students retell the story of Cinderella

• While the front cover is shown, the teacher will have the students predict what is going to happen in the story.

• The teacher will write the responses down on the board.

• The teacher will read the story.

Reading

• As the teacher is reading the story, questions will be asked checking for understanding of the story and vocabulary.

• As the students are going through the story, they will identify and confirm which predictions were true.

• The students will make new predictions throughout the story.

Post Reading

• The teacher and the students will make a Venn diagram of the book and of the story Cinderella. With doing this activity, the students will be able to compare and contrast the 2 stories.

• The teacher will have the list of the similarities and different pieces of chart paper.

Post reading continued

• Cendrellan: A Carribean Cinderella story as well as other Cinderella stories from other countries and cultures will be provided to the students.

• The students will add how the other Cinderella stories are similar and different (compare and contrast) with the first 2 stories.

Post Reading Activities

• The teacher will share that the book Golden Delicious: A Cinderella Apple Story was based on a true story.

• Many of the facts of how we got the Golden Delicious apple are in the back of the book.

• The story is part of WV history. One of the locations is in WV.

Post reading activities

• Have the students create a list of different things that can be made from apples

• Create a graph from the list of apple items

• Compare and Contrast transportation during the time in the book to the present time

• Discuss who Johnny Appleseed

Cross Curriculum Ideas

• Map and Globe Skills (locating the states and the countries that are named in the various forms of the story)

• Various Math Skills (fractions, graphing, adding, subtracting, decimals)

• Science (experiments)

• Writing (journal writing, creating books)

• These are just a few ideas

Cross Curriculum Ideas Continue

• Social Studies (learning about the different cultures and countries)

• Life Skills

• English (letter writing, following a recipe)

Heather’s Corner

• For many of the students that I work with, they have difficulty with predicting and compare and contrast (no matter the grade).

• I have used the Venn diagram with the story Miss Nelson is Missing with the 2 main characters with my 2nd graders.

• I have also used predicting (who was and what was going to happen in the story) with my 1st and 2nd graders. They confirmed and continued making new predictions.

Heather’s Corner

• I was able to have my 1st and 2nd graders tell me the story of Cinderella before reading the Carribean version of it. After completing the story, they completed a writing assingment with picture.

• For the students that each of us work with, we need to be able to meet them where they are at in order to help build on it.