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WORD
OVERVIEW:
This activity takes the
traditional Bingo and replaces
the numbers with words,
motivating the child to read the
‘Sight Words’ so they can play
(and win) the game. It is also a
great way to provide repetition
opportunities in a large group
setting.
Sight W ords, often also
called High Frequency Sight
Words, are commonly used
words that a child should learn
to recognize these words in print
without sounding out the letters.
These are foundational words
that a child can use to build a
vocabulary. These words build
speed and fluency when
reading. Accuracy, speed, and
fluency in reading increase
reading comprehension.
REFERENCE:
F Sight Words Bingo | Sight Words:
Teach Your Child to Read. Retrieved
from https://sightwords.com/sight
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words/games/bingo/#overview
F 10 ESL Vocabulary Games to Get
Your Students Seriously Engaged.
Retrieved from https://www.fluentu.
com/blog/educator -english/esl vocabu
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lary -games/
ü Let learners prepare their own bingo card for them to improve their handwriting and spelling.
ü You can make the game harder by using a majority of newer and less familiar words. You can also add some time
pressure and increase the pace at which you read out new words, so that the children have to read the words more
quickly.
ü Make some fun variati ons to Word Bingo: Picture Bingo, by using pictures on the Bingo card and calling out the words
that relate; Synonym Bingo, by giving them a word that means the same thing as a word on their card; and Antonym
Bingo, by calling out the antonyms of words on r cards and identifying how many students get it.
ACTIVITY OBJECTIVE:
BINGO
LANGUAGE & LEARNING SKILLS:
ACTIVITY OBJECTIVE:
Learners will able to dentify and read sight words.
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MATERIALS & PREPARATION
þ Different Bingo Cards with a 4x4 or a 5x5 grid made from the same word list.
The cards must be pre made by the teacher. The teacher can simply create or
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custom her set of bingo cards through the ‘Sight Words Bingo Card Creator’
(https://sightwords.com/sightwords/games/bingo/card reator/ ).
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þ Marker or Crayon which must be provided by the children. For the purpose of
reusing the card again, the teacher may ask them to bring and use beads,
pebbles, ston s or self made cardboard chips as pegs.
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PROCEDURE
F The children are given 90 seconds to read all the words on their card. If there
are any weak readers in the class, the teacher should take this time to work
with those children to help them read all the words on their card; otherwise
they are going to be lost for the rest of the game.
F The teacher takes the word list and picks a word at random from the list. She
reads out the word, uses it in a sentence, then reads out word again. The
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teacher then marks off the word from the list to help them remember which
words have been called already.
F When the children find the word, they mark on that square. To win, a child has
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to mark an entire line (vertical, horizontal, or agonal squares). When a child
has a line, he/she yells out “BINGO!”
F When a child claims to be the winner, ask him/her to read out his or her four
or five words that made a line and check these words on his/her card and on
your word list to make sure he/she actually heard and marked the words
correctly. If he/she played correctly, the child is declared the winner.
SUGGESTIONS & ADVICE
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