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WORD
ACTIVITY OBJECTIVE:

BINGO

LANGUAGE & LEARNING SKILLS:

ACTIVITY OBJECTIVE:

OVERVIEW: Learners will able to identify and read sight words.
This activity takes the

traditional Bingo and replaces MATERIALS & PREPARATION
the numbers with words,

motivating the child to read the þ Different Bingo Cards with a 4x4 or a 5x5 grid made from the same word list.
‘Sight Words’ so they can play The cards must be pre-made by the teacher. The teacher can simply create or
(and win) the game. It is also a custom her set of bingo cards through the ‘Sight Words Bingo Card Creator’

great way to provide repetition (https://sightwords.com/sightwords/games/bingo/card-creator/).
opportunities in a large group
setting. þ Marker or Crayon which must be provided by the children. For the purpose of
Sight Words, often also reusing the card again, the teacher may ask them to bring and use beads,
pebbles, stones or self-made cardboard chips as pegs.
called High Frequency Sight

Words, are commonly used
words that a child should learn PROCEDURE

to recognize these words in print
without sounding out the letters.
These are foundational words F The children are given 90 seconds to read all the words on their card. If there

that a child can use to build a are any weak readers in the class, the teacher should take this time to work
vocabulary. These words build with those children to help them read all the words on their card; otherwise
speed and fluency when they are going to be lost for the rest of the game.
reading. Accuracy, speed, and F The teacher takes the word list and picks a word at random from the list. She

fluency in reading increase reads out the word, uses it in a sentence, then reads out the word again. The
reading comprehension. teacher then marks off the word from the list to help them remember which
words have been called already.

REFERENCE: F When the children find the word, they mark on that square. To win, a child has

F Sight Words Bingo | Sight Words: to mark an entire line (vertical, horizontal, or diagonal squares). When a child
has a line, he/she yells out “BINGO!”
Teach Your Child to Read. Retrieved
from https://sightwords.com/sight- F When a child claims to be the winner, ask him/her to read out his or her four

words/games/bingo/#overview or five words that made a line and check these words on his/her card and on
F 10 ESL Vocabulary Games to Get your word list to make sure he/she actually heard and marked the words

Your Students Seriously Engaged. correctly. If he/she played correctly, the child is declared the winner.
Retrieved from https://www.fluentu.
com/blog/educator-english/esl-vocabu
lary-games/
SUGGESTIONS & ADVICE

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 variations 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 their cards and identifying how many students get it.