How to play literacy Bingo

How to play literacy Bingo

Introduction
	The literacy version of the Bingo game is useful for
	practicing visual discrimination skills, and reinforcing knowledge.

Materials

Here are the materials needed for playing literacy Bingo:

A set of small cards or pieces of paper with a different word, syllable, letter, or number written on each.

See:
How to make game cards
Large player cards on which some of the words, syllables, letters, or numbers from the small cards are written in small squares:

Note:
The words, syllables, letters, or numbers should be arranged differently on each of the cards.

Illustration
Game markers, such as
- beans
- large seeds
- stones, or
- wood chips.

Steps

Follow these steps to play literacy Bingo:

Give each player a large player card and enough game markers to cover the squares on the card.
Have the leader take the small cards and call out, one at a time, the word, syllable, letter, or number that is written on each small card.
Have the players find the square that matches what the leader has called out and cover that square with a game marker.

Tip:
Remind them that everyone may not have everything called on their card. Each card is different.
Have them call out “Bingo” as soon as they have covered all the squares on their own card.
The first player to cover all the squares and call out ”Bingo” is the winner.

Tip:
For extra practice, have the winner, or each player, read or identify each of the squares they have covered.

Alternative

Here is an alternative way to play Bingo:

Give each player a set of the small cards so that they can cover the square that matches what has been called out with the small card that matches.
Illustration

Context for this page:

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 16 March 1999