56 Rhyming Bingo
Matthew Malerba
Strategy Overview
- Game that helps students identify words that sound alike and recognize rhymes.
- Focuses on acknowledging, understanding, and replicating speech.
- You can help ELLs strengthen their knowledge of the sounds of the English language through read alouds, songs, poems, and other word games (A World of Language Learners, 2020).
- Many students are bilingual and when growing up, it can be confusing learning in English in school but hearing and speaking another language at home, therefore focusing on the sound of the English language is very beneficial.
- Especially for older ELLs, it is helpful to focus on the sounds that are different between English and their native language (A World of Language Learners, 2020)
Strategy in Action
Students will all be given multiple bingo sheets with words in each of the bingo squares, but the trick is that none of these words rhyme with each other. Then, the teacher will present a word that rhymes with one of the words on the students’ pages and the students must all say the word presented out loud and then find the word on their paper that it rhymes with. Students will then continue filling out their bingo cards until 3 people have bingo (the first and second winners keep playing after they win).
Student Example
The teacher passes out bingo cards to everyone and posts “Word 1: Clean” on the board. Students find the word on their bingo cards that rhymes with “clean.” Once they locate that word, they write the word clean in that box and mark the box. Students keep going until the teacher seems fit.
References
A World of Language Learners. (2020, April 20). Phonemic awareness with ELLs. https://www.aworldoflanguagelearners.com/phonemic-awareness/
