Halloween and School Vocabulary Activities for Elementary ESL Students

This Halloween and School Unit combines seasonal excitement with meaningful language learning opportunities for elementary English language learners. This resource is found at this link at the TPT store: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/School-Theme-for-Elementary-ESL-1707072

Teaching Halloween vocabulary together with school vocabulary helps elementary English language learners make meaningful connections between familiar classroom objects and a fun seasonal theme. This Halloween and School Unit provides engaging activities, flashcards, worksheets, games, and speaking practice designed to build vocabulary, improve sentence formation, and encourage student participation.

By incorporating Halloween activities, teachers provide ELLs with an opportunity to experience and understand a key aspect of the culture. Find it all to prepare a Lesson plan 3p.

Halloween and School Vocabulary Flashcards

Blend essential classroom language with the fun of Halloween using the school things flashcards. Students will associate common school supplies (e.g., pencil,) with the Halloween theme helping retain vocabulary through visual context. Always use pointers for asking questions.

Halloween and School Sentence Building Activity

Encourage your elementary ESL students to create complete sentences while practicing Halloween and school vocabulary. Display a Halloween and School flashcard and invite students to describe what they see. As students share their ideas, write their sentences on the board. This simple activity helps learners connect vocabulary, colors, school objects, and sentence structure in a meaningful way.

Halloween-Themed Small Cards Speaking Practice

The Halloween theme reinforces additional seasonal vocabulary, such as "vampire," while teaching necessary school-related terms using the small cards. Ask questions: What character is shown on the scissors?

                                                 Students: Vampire!

I made this pointer to read words. I bought this cutout at Dollar tree years ago, but grab the idea to make your own.

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Halloween School Worksheets

The worksheets with a Halloween theme add excitement to the lessons. Have the students complete the worksheets while learning school supplies vocabulary in a festive context.

Halloween Vocabulary Games

Students will love practicing Halloween and school vocabulary with this fun domino game. As they match pictures and words, they reinforce vocabulary recognition, reading skills, and speaking confidence. This hands-on activity encourages cooperation, turn-taking, and meaningful language practice while keeping young learners engaged and motivated. The game is perfect for small groups, literacy centers, early finishers, or vocabulary review lessons.

Halloween-themed school supplies games provide a dynamic way to teach vocabulary to English language learners (ELLs). Students love BINGO! Play this game by having the students color the school items in any of the four colors playing: green, orange, purple, black, and glue only 6 of them onto their board.

Use your calling cards to start the game: an orange book! The student that color the book orange can cross out the block. Keep in mind that you can play this game at any other time using the same board that they have created. It is useful for those final 5 or 10 minutes to wrap up a class.

Leaving for last this flap book printable. This is a creative writing activity. Students will color the Frankenstein on each flap and write a text.

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This printable worksheet pack helps students practice vocabulary connected to school life and classroom items. It supports multiple skills for young learners and ELL beginners, all in the same Schol Unit resource. Go to this blog post: 

https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2023/07/school-unit-worksheets-for-elementary.html

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You'll find creative ideas, activities, and resources designed to make language learning enjoyable and effective, especially for young English language learners.

Fruit and Veggies Worksheets for Elementary ELLs.

 This resource is included in The Fruit and Vegetables level 1 for Elementary ELLS.LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-and-Vegetables-level-1-for-Elementary-ELLS-12275711

The worksheets focus on—fruits and vegetables—that students will encounter in real-life situations, helping them communicate more effectively in English. These worksheets use engaging activities that cater to visual learners. By including activities like matching, sorting, and labeling, the worksheets offer a hands-on, multisensory approach. Use these for the practice part of the lesson plan for your english class.

This worksheet helps students practice fruits and vegetables vocabulary.

 Learners read simple phrases, look at the pictures, and write the correct number, and coloring accordingly.

Students identify fruits and vegetables by matching pictures to numbers. As an extension, learners can color the items and write simple sentences describing each one.

Students complete missing vowels in fruit and vegetable words and then match each word to its picture.

 As an extension, learners can create a class poster by connecting the words and images, reinforcing spelling, vocabulary, and visual recognition.

This Read and Draw worksheet helps students practice reading simple sentences while drawing and coloring fruits based on color clues.

These Complete and Draw worksheets combine, color recognition, and vocabulary practice in one engaging activity.

Students review fruit and vegetable vocabulary by finding and highlighting familiar words in the word search. It supports spelling and visual scanning.

This worksheet helps students practice counting, number words, and simple sentences using familiar fruit and vegetable vocabulary.

This match and read worksheet helps students connect simple sentences with pictures while practicing numbers, vocabulary, and basic sentence structure.

This Is or Are worksheet helps students choose the correct verb and then color the matching fruits and vegetables. It reinforces basic grammar.

This cut-and-paste worksheet helps students match simple sentences with the correct fruit and vegetable pictures on their notebooks.

This What are you? / What do you have? worksheet encourages students to write simple sentences using fruit and vegetable vocabulary and colors inside speech bubbles. It supports early writing.

Revisit the face and body vocabulary in the context of the fruit and vegetable unit, giving students the chance to reinforce their understanding of previously learned words.

This worksheet helps students practice plural spelling rules for fruits and vegetables by sorting words into -s, -es, and -ies. It reinforces  spelling patterns.

In this simple writing activity, students practice forming sentences with “I want…” while identifying fruits and vegetables.

Students practice using there is and there are to describe fruits and vegetables.

Students use I like and I don’t like to express food preferences.

Students practice identifying, counting, and talking about fruits and vegetables using clear sentence models and visual support. These worksheets build confidence with simple questions and answers through repetition and meaningful context.

Interview Activity – Favorite Fruits & Vegetables

Students walk around the classroom asking classmates, “What’s your favorite fruit or vegetable?” and record the answers on their worksheets using clipboards. This speaking-and-listening activity builds confidence, encourages interaction, and practices real-life questioning skills in a fun, meaningful way.

There is a set of even more questionnaire worksheets, check them out: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Questionnaire-Worksheets-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-11315049

Fun fruit and veggies games for elementary ESL learners — engaging printable activities to practise food vocabulary, speaking  are also included in the full pack of fruit and vegetables. Go to the blog post:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/11/fruit-and-veggies-games-for-elementary.html

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Whether you're teaching vocabulary, prepositions, or celebrating special occasions like Halloween 🎃 and birthdays 🎂, you'll find creative, hands-on activities and worksheets to make your lessons both enjoyable and effective.

Halloween and the Haunted House Prepositions

 This resource is included in the House Unit for Elementary-Starters at this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rooms-of-the-House-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-10395114

Print and use this spooky theme of a haunted house and ghost to capture your students' attention. The resource provides a clear visual to grasp prepositions (in, on, under, behind, in front of and "next to") through fun and interactive activities. The resource caters to different learning styles (visual, auditory, and kinesthetic).

Each flashcard portraits a specific preposition with a ghost in relation to a haunted house or objects (e.g., "The ghost is on the Haunted House").

The activity promotes spatial understanding by helping students visualize and use prepositions in meaningful contexts, which is critical for language development. Use the colored or b/w version of the ghost and house cutout for the students to recreate each preposition: The ghost is in front of the house.

Use the flashcards as a writing activity.

Use the ghost cutout and play Ghost Hunt (Hide and Seek with Prepositions). Hide the ghost cutout around the classroom (e.g., under desks, on the bookshelf, next to the door). Have students search for the ghost and describe its location using prepositions ("The ghost is under the chair").

 

The small cards can be used in different interactive activities. One of them is the Memory Game where students match the cards, challenging students to find pairs that match the correct preposition to the image.

Add the worksheet to the lesson plan. Find Labeling Prepositions: Students will have to choose the correct preposition (e.g., in, on, under, next to, behind, in front of), Fill-in-the-Blanks with Visual Clues, write different questions to each picture.

By moving the ghost around the haunted house and using prepositions to describe its location, students actively practice their language skills. Fun to glue and create a Haunted house poster with all the ghosts in their location.

Print the Preposition Dice to play several games. Students roll the dice and then place or move a ghost cutout to play in the location of the Haunted house cutout. This game provides hands-on interaction with prepositions.

Haunted House Board Game. Print the board game with a haunted house theme. Students move their Halloween character game pieces around a board, landing on locations in the haunted house. Each space has a sentence to say or a space to move: The ghost is on the Haunted House.

Matching Card Game. Prepare the mat with pictures of a haunted house and ghost in different locations. Students take turns drawing cards with the preposition words and place where it belongs. There is also a sentence set to play a puzzle game.

Hope you will love this Game. I used to make different versions for my students in my teaching days. Print a card per team. There are 4. Have the cards and house ready for each team.

When you say, "Go!" the students must read the sentences and place the cards in the corresponding place to complete the task. The first group who puts the proper things in the correct location gets a point for their team.

Hands-on book creation increases motivation and ownership for the rooms of the house. Go to this blog post: 

https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2023/11/rooms-of-house-printable-book-httpswww.html

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