The fall season is perfect for theme teaching! This unit utilizes apples and Johnny Appleseed to teach tall tales, fiction and nonfiction reading strategies (analyzing characters, comparing characters, comparing fiction and nonfiction, text features) and SO MUCH MORE! It includes a cute Johnny Appleseed craft, sentence building activities, writing organizers, an opinion writing piece, math activities, language arts activities, comprehension questions, an informational PowerPoint/book about apple