Vocabulary Bingo Cards

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Learning and increasing vocabulary is an important part of education and K-12 education in particular. Children tend to learn many words from hearing them spoken around them, and learn further words from general reading, but many teachers also believe it helps for children to be specifically taught to learn useful words and their definitions. One idea that can help make this a fun and exciting idea for students is introducing vocabulary games, and one game in particular that can be played for this purpose is vocabulary bingo.

The way that vocabulary bingo is played is:

1. Each student is given a bingo card (also known as "bingo board" or "bingo worksheet") containing a grid of squares. Each square in the grid is printed with a different word.

2. The teacher, playing the part of bingo caller, reads out the definition for a word. The students then attempt to find the matching square on their bingo card, and if they find it, cover that square with a counter.

3. The process of teacher reading out definitions, and the students trying to find matches continues until one student achieves a winning pattern (for example a line of five countered covered squares - although the definition of a winning pattern can be varied) and calls out "Bingo!"

Vocabulary bingo is not only a lot of fun, but really can help students learn new words. What's more, the same idea can be adapted to other educational purposes, for example, teaching parts of speech (example bingo call: "a verb beginning with P"), math or even foreign language words. All that is needed is a set of bingo cards containing the particular items that the teacher chooses for the particular lesson - and these can very easily be printed using a PC and some bingo card maker software.

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Source by Sunil Tanna