Giant Easter Vocabulary List for ESL and ELD Classrooms

ESL and ELD students always appreciate learning vocabulary that they can see and use right away. They will see these Easter vocabulary words throughout the community, at stores, in advertisements, and on holiday cards.

Not all of these vocabulary words need to be assigned for memorization, but having them all on one page provides a good reference for your students to keep in their notebooks.

Secular Easter Vocabulary

April

basket

bonnet

bouquet

bunny

candy

carrot

celebration

chick

chocolate

chocolate bunny

color

colorful

cottontail

custom

decorate

dinner

duckling

dye

Easter

Easter basket

Easter egg

Easter egg hunt

egg

find

flowers

grass

ham

Happy Easter!

hard boiled egg

hide

holiday

hop

hunt

jelly beans

lamb

lily

March

marshmallow

nest

parade

party

pastel

pattern

plastic eggs

rabbit

season

Spring

Spring Break

Sunday

tradition

tulips

vacation

Religious Easter Vocabulary

angel

Ash Wednesday

believe

church

cross

crucifixion

crucify

Easter Service

faith

God

Good Friday

holy

Jesus

lamb

Lent

miracle

passion

prayer

Psalm Sunday

resurrection

risen

rite

ritual

sacrifice

salvation

sin

tomb

See also Giant Spring Vocabulary List for ESl and ELD

Give your students opportunities to use these Easter vocabulary words throughout the season in their writing assignments, conversation practice, and in exercises like the following:

Word Categories

Sort the Easter vocabulary words into categories such as: words associated with Easter egg hunts, religious Easter celebrations, Easter baskets, etc...

Fill In the Blank

As a vocabulary practice activity, write sentences that are missing a word and let your students use their list to determine what word best fills in the blank. Sample sentences using Easter vocabulary include:

Easter Sunday is usually in the month of _____.

The Easter _____ eggs for children to find.

CLOZE Paragraphs

Cloze paragraphs are paragraphs with words and phrases missing that students fill in on their own. An example of a cloze paragraph using Easter vocabulary is:

Easter is a major _____ that usually falls in the month of April. On Easter, children put out _____ for the Easter ______ to fill with eggs and candy.

Writing Assignments and Journal Activities

Give your students plenty of practice using their new words in the journals and other writing assignments. Some journal topics for Easter vocabulary include:

What is your favorite part of Easter? Why?

What is your least favorite part of Easter? Why?

What are you planning to do on Easter?

Do think Easter traditions are fun or silly? Why?

Word Games

Crossword puzzles, word scrambles, and word searches are great practice. All of these games can be made online at DiscoverySchool.com by using their Puzzle Maker application.

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