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Dia de los Muertos Word Wall Vocabulary Cards
Dia de los Muertos Word Wall vocabulary cards to teach your students about cultural activities around the world.
Print out these Dia de los Muertos Word Wall vocabulary cards and cut them along the line. Stick them up around your room to immerse your students in the content specific vocabulary.
There is a blank sheet provided at the end for any extra words that your students may want to add.
Words include:
ofrenda, offerings, dead, pan de muerto, bread, cempazuchitl, yellow, marigolds, calaveras, iced sugar skulls, cascarones, egg shells, papel picado, Mexican, paper cutting, copal, incense, dia de los muertos, Day of the Dead, festival, beginning, thousands of years ago, altar, el panteon, fiesta, skeleton, las velas, candles, hell, heaven, earth, petals, happiness, October 31, November 1, children, adult, sand sculptures, pre-hispanic, bells
Dia de los Muertos Cards Vocabulary
ofrenda | offerings | dead |
pan de muerto | bread | cempazuchitl |
yellow | marigolds | calaveras |
iced sugar skulls | cascarones | egg shells |
papel picado | Mexican | paper cutting |
copal | incense | dia de los muertos |
Day of the Dead | festival | beginning |
thousands of years ago | altar | el panteon |
fiesta | skeleton | las velas |
candles | hell | heaven |
earth | petals | happiness |
October 31 | November 1 | children |
adult | sand sculptures | pre-hispanic |
bells |
Common Core Curriculum alignment
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.4
Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.6
Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal precise actions, emotions, or states of being (e.g., quizzed, whined, stammered) and that are basic to a particular topic...

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