80 Phonics Bingo
Janelle Scott
Strategy Overview
A great strategy to use to incorporate these phonetic skills is Phonics Bingo to help your students differentiate between sounds, letters, and words and also blend and segment the sounds. The great thing about this game is that students must listen to the caller to know what square to cover on their Bingo board. Players must then be able to match what they hear to a word or picture. An important key of building on phonics is to have “planned hands-on experiences to generate oral language….lots of experiences with a variety of rhymes” (Wilson & Hornsby, 2014, p. 4).
Strategy in Action
This activity in a class of 20 kids can allow children the chance to build on the recognition s well as the oral aspect of phonics as the students can work in pairs or with a teacher as a whole class. The ability to manipulate this activity to fit the needs of each student makes it even more useful to utilize in the classroom. Utilizing these games in the classroom is a way for learning to be fun and has proven to have great results.
Student Example
Step 1:
Students are prompted with a letter sounds, letter combination, picture recognition
Step 2:
Students respond with the correlated answer to the prompted letter sound, letter combination, picture recognition with a token on the bingo board.
Teacher Tips:
- Prompt students with the appropriate phonic skills that need to be worked on for that specific lesson
- Allow students to respond orally after a couple minutes to check themselves
References
Hornsby, D., & Wilson, L. (2011). Teaching phonics in context. Pearson Australia.
