Fall is in the air, and I am LOVING it. There is almost nothing that I don’t love about this time of year.
This post is a compilation of fall words. Here are a few ideas on how to use them:
Choose several words to alphabetize. This is a skill that ALWAYS needs some practice. For younger students that need extra support, choose only a few words that begin with different letters. With students that need less support and are up for more of a challenge, choose words that begin with the same letter, encouraging students to alphabetize by second and third letters.
Choose a few nouns from the list and ask students to list as many adjectives as they can think of to describe each noun.
Pick 8-10 words and ask student to write a short autumn story using all of the chosen words. For students needing more support, they can write a descriptive sentence for each word.
Choose several words and write each one on a separate scrap of paper. Fold the papers and put them into a bag or container. Students take turns choosing a paper and describing the word on the paper for others to guess.
What words may students not know? Choose a handful of words that might be new. Discuss the meaning of the word and have them use it in a sentence, and illustrate it. Have them discuss with a partner how each word relates to fall.
A: acorns; amber; apples; applesauce; aroma; autumn
B: bale (of hay); ballot; blanket; boots; bounty; bushel
C: candidate; carve; change; chestnuts; chipmunk; cider; cinnamon; clouds; cloves; colonial; colors; cool; corduroys; corn; corn maze; cornstalk; cornucopia; costume; cozy; cranberries; crisp; crow
D: Daylight Savings; December; deciduous; decorative
E: election; Election Day; equinox
F: fall; family; feast; fireplace; firewood; flannel; fleece; fog; foliage; football; frost
G: ginger; gourds; guest; gusty
H: Halloween; harvest; haunted; hayride; heat; hood; horn of plenty; hibernate
I: inspirational; inspiring
J: Jack O’lanter; jacket;
K: kitchen; knitting
L: leaves; logs; lunchbox
M: migrate; moon
N: November; nutmeg
O: October; orange; orchard
P: pear; persimmon; pie; pinecones; pumpkins
Q: quiche; quilt
R: raincoat; rake; red; Rosh Hashanah; russet; rustling
S: scarecrow; scarf; scarlet; scenic; September; slippers; sneeze; socks; soup; spices; spider; squash; squirrels; Sukkot; sunflower; sweater
T: tea; teapot; thankful; Thanksgiving; tractor; traditions; treats; tricks; turkey
U: umbrella
V: Veteran’s Day; vibrant; vote
W: wind; windbreaker; World Series; wool
X: eXtra layer
Y: yam; yellow; Yom Kippur
Z: zipper
Are there any other fall-related words that you would add to this list? I’d love to hear!
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