Bingo is an increasingly popular classroom activity with many teachers. This is because these teachers realize that as well as being a lot of fun for their students, the game is perfectly suited to educational use, including in the K-12 environment. This is because bingo is very easy to learn and play, highly flexible and adaptable to different topics and subjects, and importantly given the financial constraints that many teachers work under, not requiring of specialist expensive resources or materials.
Although bingo can be used in teaching many different subjects and topics, including math and arithmetic, telling the time, or even geography, history or science, one area in which the game is especially popular, is teaching reading. When teaching reading the key aspect of the game is that each student is given a bingo card printed with words (or perhaps phrases), and although (as in standard bingo), the objective remains to be the first player to get a line of five items horizontally, vertically or diagonally, game play can be adapted from simply calling out words (or writing them on the blackboard if the teacher prefers).
READING GAMES
1. Sight Words - The teacher simply calls out words, and students must find the corresponding word on their cards. This variant is most popular with so-called "Sight Words" - words that can not be sounded out, but that students must master recognizing in order to achieve reading fluency.
2. Blending Bingo - The teacher says a word very slowly such as "sss-ppp-ooo-ttt" or "mmm-aaa-t" and the students must find the word on the card. The purpose being to help students practice "blending" letters to make words.
3. Partial Word Bingo - The teacher says something like "Find the word with 'mile' in it" and the student has to find "Smile". You can also use beginnings of words (e.g. find the word beginning with "r"), word endings, or sounds in the middle of words.
4. Rhyming Bingo - The teacher says something like "Find the word that rhymes with 'plot'" and the student has to find "slot".
5. Silent E Bingo - Ahead of time the teacher prepares bingo cards using pairs of words with and without a silent E, for example "cap" and "cape", or "hat" and "hate". You then play normal bingo and students have to learn to recognize the differences between these similar words. A variation is to use only words without the final E, and when playing make bingo calls of the following form "When you add an E, the word would be 'pine'", in response to which clue the students needs to find the square containing "pin".
Reading Bingo
By S. Tanna. To create your own custom bingo cards - on any subject at all - including telling the time - please go to http://www.bingocardprinter.com/
READING GAMES
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