Apples & Pumpkins Informational Text

This fall informational text pack contains apples and pumpkins centers. These literacy centers are designed to help your children work with informational text during their center time.

This is another free resource for teachers from The Curriculum Corner.

This apples and pumpkins centers set can be used at a literacy center in your classroom this fall.

These printable resources contain a range of activities so you can choose the resources that meet the needs of your students.

**You can download the complete, free set of centers by clicking on the bold orange words at the bottom of this post.**

You will find the following apples and pumpkins informational text resources within this post:

Apples & Pumpkins Photos for Display

Fact/Opinion Sort Students learn about apples and pumpkins while also learning about the difference between fact & opinion. Graphic organizer also provided for quick assessment.

Vocabulary Words  We have included a collection of words to fit the focus.  (Also includes blank template for additional words you may want to include.)  Four simple vocabulary task cards can be used to help students practice reading and understanding the vocabulary words.

Compare & Contrast Organizer

Fluency Sentence Cards Students can practice their fluency skills while learning about apples and pumpkins.

Recalling Facts Organizers  Four graphic organizers for students to use as they recall the facts they learned about barn owls and wild turkeys.

Book Responses For these organizers, you can place a basket of informational text books focused on apples and pumpkins in a basket at a literacy center. There are various pages for students to use along with a book they choose.  

Sharing my Thinking Students can share what they learn with these four pages. The blank pages with the apples and pumpkins titles are  for sketch notes pages. If you have not tried this approach, you simply encourage students to share their thoughts using words and pictures. 

Pumpkins & Apples Booklets Students can create their own informational texts about apples or pumpkins using these book templates.

Lined Pages These papers have pumpkin and apple themes.

We suggest that you model these resources during mini-lessons first so that students know your expectations.

You can download the complete set of Literacy Centers here:
Literacy Center Set

Other free resources you might like to add to you fall collection:

Bats & Spiders Informational Text

Apples Book Study

Fall Syllable Practice

Here are some of our favorite books focusing on apples and pumpkins: