Memorial Day Reading Comprehension and ESL Activities - Worksheets & Puzzles

Celebrate the importance of Memorial Day with your students using these NO PREP Printables! This unit includes a reading, comprehension questions, vocabulary and many more engaging activities to share with your class at the end of the school year.

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1. Memorial Day Reading

2. Memorial Day Comprehension Questions

Students will form questions using the cues provided. Then, they will answer the questions using the information found in the reading.

3. Vocabulary Matching

This exercise includes words like patriotic, national, freedom, Veteran, tomb, cemetery, and grave etc.

4. Vocabulary Fill In

Students will use the words from the Word Bank to fill in the missing words.

5. Fact or Opinion

Students will read statements about Memorial Day. Then, they will decide if each statement is a fact or an opinion.

6. 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.

7. Memorial Day Scramble:

Students will unscramble common Memorial Day vocabulary words.

8. Memorial Day Grammar Review:

Students will write a noun, adjective and verb for each of the initial letters in the words “Memorial Day”.

9. Memorial Day Fun Sheet

A variety of fun questions and jokes for Memorial Day.

10. Watermelon Anagram

Students are given clues to help them find as many words as they can using the letters in the word "Watermelon."

11. Memorial Day Alphabetize and Find Word Search Puzzle

12. 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.

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