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Everybunny’s Easter Puns

The energizer bunny went to jail. He was charged with battery. Get it? Your students will understand after this lesson! Use this lesson to give your students tools to understand and create Easter puns.
Grade:
Fifth Grade
Subjects:
English Language Arts
Writing
Writing Organization
Writing Strategies
Descriptive Language
View aligned standards
L.5.5.a
L.5.5.c

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to understand puns and create their own Easter puns.

Introduction

(5 minutes)
  • Show the Easter Pun! video, or display a picture of an Easter pun.
  • Write an example of an Easter pun on the board: Help me! I'm dying.
  • Draw a picture of an egg being dyed (or show a picture of it).
  • Ask students if they can figure out why this is a joke (i.e. the egg is not dying but it is being dyed).
  • Circle the word dying.
  • Tell students there are two meanings for the word: to no longer be alive and to color with dye.
  • Explain that this is an Easter pun. This example is a play on words that sound the same (die, dye). It is an Easter pun because it deals with an Easter topic (dying eggs). It uses the two meanings of dying to make the joke, or a pun.