I left home with James, my older brother, and our friend John, both a year older than I, to go to the town of Springfield to participate in our friend's talent show. What information is shared with the reader through the appositive and appositive phrase used in the sentence?

the answer is: The reader learns both that the narrator has an older brother, and his brother and John are older.

Appositive phrase is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. We can see that the writer directly shares the information about his brother by including the information