Bring setting analysis and comprehension together with How to Make Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman. This engaging Rooted in Reading unit helps students explore settings such as time, place and environment and how they can change throughout a story.

Through interactive lessons and meaningful discussions, students will strengthen comprehension skills while building vocabulary and grammar knowledge.

Skills Covered

Reading Comprehension

• How settings can change
• Settings: Time, Place, Environment

Vocabulary

• ingredients
• harvest
• spoil
• orchard
• churn

Grammar

• Nouns

This week-long resource includes 5 days of comprehensive lesson plans featuring comprehension instruction, vocabulary activities, mentor sentence lessons, assessments, anchor charts, and an original nonfiction reader titled Apples. Students will respond to text through writing, discussion, and engaging hands-on activities designed to deepen understanding.