Johnny Appleseed Free Teaching Materials

Not only can you get these free Johnny Appleseed vocabulary activities, but check out a slew of additional apple activities for big kids on my updated apple webpages here.

These webpages include figurative language, facts, and teaching ideas. Apple quotes are great for teaching Common Core figurative language standards. Students can refer to details and examples when explaining what the text says explicitly (another Common Core Standard) with a great list of apple facts. Have students write creatively using apples as a theme. Students can learn to follow directions with the classroom apple recipes. 

Johnny Appleseed

Do you love Steven Kellogg’s book, Johnny Appleseed? I’ve created a free set of vocabulary exercises to go along with the book.

You’ll find:

• a vocabulary list with words, definitions, and sentences from the text
• vocabulary bookmarks
• word wall
• a printable vocabulary practice book

Here is the link to download the printable.

Craftivity Idea

I saw a craft pin on Pinterest for making a fall tree out of a small paper bag. [Here’s the link to the original pin.] Ideas started bouncing around in my head about ways to turn this craft into an educational project for my students. I decided that if we used full-sized grocery bags to make larger trees, my students could add apples to their trees. These apples would have enough space to write not only vocabulary words but definitions and sentences with the words as well. I knew my students would enjoy the change from our normal vocabulary routine. Boy, was I correct!

Change up the apple idea with fall-colored leaves or ghosts for Halloween. Get the patterns here.