Giant Spring ESL / EL Vocabulary List, 130+ Words and Phrases

ESL and EL students always appreciate learning vocabulary that they can see and use right away. They will see these spring 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 at once, but having them all on one page provides a good reference for your students to keep in their notebooks.

April

April Fool's Day

baby animals

baseball

baseball bat

baseball field

baseball player

beehive

bee

bird

bloom

blossom

blue skies

bouquet

breeze

breezy

bud

bunny

butterfly

caterpillar

chick

cherry/cherries

clouds

clover (four-leaf clover)

crops

daffodil

duckling

dugout

Earth Day

Easter

Easter basket

Easter bunny

Easter egg

egg

farmer

First Day of Spring

flower

flower pot

garden

gardener

gardening

Good Friday

Grass

green

grow

honey

June

kite

lamb

March

May

melt

Mother's Day

nest

new leaves

plant

plow

pollinate

pollywog

puddle

rabbit

rain boots

rainbow

rebirth

robin

Saint Patrick's Day

season

seed

shower

sow

Spring Break

spring cleaning

springtime

sprout

stem

sunny

sunshine

tadpole

thaw

tulip

umbrella

wake up

warm

wind

windy

calf

foal

kid (baby goat)

gosling

crops

weather

Spring Flowers

crocus

daffodil

daisy

forget-me-not

freesia

iris

lilac

lily-of-the-valley

tulip

violet

poppy

Spring Phrases

Happy Easter!

April Fool's!

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

Luck of the Irish

April showers bring May flowers.

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb

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

Word Categories

Sort the spring vocabulary words into categories such as: weather words, signs of spring, animals, and other categories you or your students think of.

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 spring vocabulary include:

The _____ plants a variety of flowers in the spring.

One day the ____ will transform into a butterfly.

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 spring vocabulary is:

Spring is the season of ____ where all of nature seems to come alive again. Flowers like the _____ and the _____ bloom. Baby animals, such as ____ and ____ are seen in fields and meadows.

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 fall vocabulary include:

What is your favorite part of spring?

What spring activities are happening in your community?

What is your least favorite part about spring?

What is your favorite spring holiday and 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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