100+ Thanksgiving Vocabulary Words (ESL/ELD)

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

acorn
America
American
apple
apple pie
ate
autumn

bake
baste
beans
bread
buns

butter
carve
casserole
celebrate
centerpiece
Colonists
cook
corn
cornbread
cornucopia
cranberry
cranberry sauce

delicious
dessert
dine
dinner
dish
drumstick

eat

fall
family
feast
festive

fish
football
friends

giblets

give thanks
gobble

gourd
grandparents
grateful
gratitude
gravy

green bean

ham
harvest
holiday
home

Indian
Indian corn

leaf (leaves)
leftovers

main course

Massachusetts
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Mayflower
meal
meat
melting pot

napkin
native
Native American
New World
November

oven

pans
parents
pecan
pie
Pilgrim
platter
Plymouth
Plymouth Rock
potato
pots
pumpkin
pumpkin pie

recipe
roast
rolls

sail
salad
sauce
serve
settlers
Squanto
squash
stuffing
sweet potato

tablecloth
taste
tasty
thankful
Thanksgiving Day
Thursday
tom turkey
tradition
turkey

vegetables
voyage

wishbone

yam

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