Giant Mother's Day and Father's Day 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 Mother's Day and Father's Day vocabulary words throughout the community, at stores, in advertisements, and on holiday cards.

Not all of these Mother's Day and Father's Day 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.

Adopt

Adopted

Adore

Barbeque

Bond

Bouquet, Bouquet of flowers

Breakfast, Breakfast in Bed

Brunch

Card

Caring

Celebrate

Child

Children

Communicate

Dad, Father, Daddy, Dada

Daughter

Decorate

Dedicated

Dinner

Family

Gift

Gift bag

Greeting card

Happy Father's Day

Happy Mother's Day

Holiday

Love

Married

Mom, Mother, Mommy, Mama

Nurture

Parents

Poem

Present

Proud

Remember

Son

Special

Stepfather, Stepdad

Stepmother, Stepmom

Understand

Wrapping paper

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

Word Categories

Sort the Mother's Day and Father's Day vocabulary words into categories such as: words associated with Mother's Day, Father's Day, relationships, family 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 Mother's Day or Father's Day vocabulary include:

Mother's Day is usually in the month of _____ while Father's Day is usually in the Month of _____.

On Mother's Day we give our ______ a special _______.

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 Mother's Day and Father's Day vocabulary is:

Mother's Day is a day to celebrate our _______. Many children make their moms _______.

_______ is a day to celebrate our dads. Since Father's Day is in June, many families have a _______ to celebrate with their dads.

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 Mother's Day and Father's Day vocabulary include:

Do you think Father's Day is important? Why or why not?

What does your family do to celebrate Mother's Day?

What do you plan on doing this Father's Day?

Why are moms important?

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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