🧮 Skills Targeted

• Recognizing and using the addition symbol (+)
  
• Understanding that addition combines quantities
  
• Using counting strategies and visual supports to find sums
  
• Writing and solving simple equations up to 10
  
• Strengthening number sense and one-to-one correspondence
  

🧠 Instructional Features

• Visual Learning: Each page uses fruit images to represent numbers.
  
• Scaffolded Practice: Problems increase slightly in difficulty to support mastery.
  
• Multisensory Approach: Students count, color, and write to engage multiple modalities.
  
• Language Support: Clear, simple math vocabulary supports English learners and early readers.
  

🍎 Washington State Learning Standards Alignment

Mathematics K–1: Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Kindergarten Standards (K.OA):

• K.OA.A.1 – Represent addition as putting together and adding to.
  
• K.OA.A.2 – Solve addition word problems within 10 using objects or drawings.
  
• K.OA.A.5 – Fluently add within 5 (progress toward 10).
  

Grade 1 Standards (1.OA):

• 1.OA.A.1 – Use addition within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to and putting together.
  
• 1.OA.B.3 – Apply properties of operations as strategies to add.
  
• 1.OA.C.5 – Relate counting to addition.
  
• 1.OA.C.6 – Add within 10 demonstrating fluency and conceptual understanding.
  

📋 Suggested Use

• Grade Level: Kindergarten and 1st Grade
  
• Setting: Dual Language Classrooms, Resource Rooms, or Small Group Intervention
  
• Supports: Visual aids, manipulatives, bilingual vocabulary cards, teacher modeling