Memorial Day and Veterans Day Reading Comprehension | ESL ACTIVITY BUNDLE
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Celebrate Veterans Day and Memorial Day in your class with these NO PREP Printables. Students will gain a better understanding of the reason why we celebrate these two very important patriotic holidays in the United States.
MEMORIAL DAY
1. Memorial Day Reading
2. Vocabulary Matching
This exercise includes words like patriotic, national, freedom, Veteran, tomb, cemetery, and grave etc.
3. Vocabulary Fill In
Students will use the words from the Word Bank to fill in the missing words.
4. Fact or Opinion
Students will read statements about Memorial Day. Then, they will decide if each statement is a fact or an opinion.
5. Memorial Day Patriotic Idiom Grammar Review
Students will discover the hidden idiom by identifying different parts of speech (i.e. adverbs, prepositions, plural nouns, present tense verbs, object pronouns, irregular past tense verbs and comparatives adjectives etc.) After identifying the words according to their parts of speech, they will then follow the directions and color them accordingly. If students don’t have colored pencils they can cross out the words instead. The blocks that remain will reveal the idiom “As American as apple pie”. Finally, they need to write a sentence using the idiom correctly.
6. Memorial Day Scramble:
Students will unscramble common Memorial Day vocabulary words.
7. Memorial Day Grammar Review:
Students will write a noun, adjective and verb for each of the initial letters in the words “Memorial Day”.
8. Memorial Day Alphabetize and Word Search Puzzle
9. Memorial Day Word Art
This worksheet can be used to review vocabulary words related to Memorial Day. Students should be encouraged to color and decorate the vocabulary words. You could also encourage students to create their own word art projects using vocabulary from this unit.
When students have finished this word art worksheet, it can be easily displayed to make a beautiful bulletin board for Memorial Day.
VETERANS DAY
1. Veterans Day Reading (2 pages)
2. Vocabulary Matching
This exercise includes words like patriotic, national, freedom, Veteran, armistice, cemetery, and grave etc.
3. Vocabulary Fill In
Students will use the words from the Word Bank to fill in the missing words.
4. Fact or Opinion
Students will read statements about Veterans Day. Then, they will decide if each statement is a fact or an opinion.
5. Veterans Day Patriotic Idiom Grammar Review
Students will discover the hidden idiom by identifying different parts of speech (i.e. irregular plural nouns, adverbs of frequency, conjunctions, subject pronouns, comparative adjectives, irregular past tense verbs and affirmative present tense verbs etc.) After identifying the words according to their parts of speech, they will then follow the directions and color them accordingly. If students don’t have colored pencils they can cross out the words instead. The blocks that remain will reveal the idiom “Freedom isn’t free”. Finally, they need to write a sentence using the idiom correctly. They can discuss the meaning with their teacher.
6. Veterans Day Word Scramble:
Students will unscramble common Veterans Day vocabulary words.
7. Veterans Day Grammar Review:
Students will write a noun, adjective and verb for each of the initial letters in the words “Veterans Day”.
8. Veterans Day Word Search Puzzle
9. Veterans Day Word Art
This worksheet can be used to review vocabulary words related to Veterans Day. Students should be encouraged to color and decorate the vocabulary words. You could also encourage students to create their own word art projects using vocabulary from this unit.
When students have finished this word art worksheet, it can be easily displayed to make a beautiful bulletin board for Veterans Day.
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