Sight Word Bingo

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• Explain that today you will be teaching the students to play a game that will help them to read and spell tricky sight words.
• Ask your class if anyone ever played bingo before. Describe bingo as a game where everyone gets a game board. When the caller calls a word on a player's board, they must cross it out. When players cross out three words in a row, they need to call out "Bingo!"
• Model how to use the bingo board by projecting it on the whiteboard or drawing a version on the board for the class to see.
• Explain that there might be a word that the students don’t know how to read or spell yet, so they should pay attention as you hold up each word card and say each word.
• Demonstrate how you hold up each word card and read the word for each turn of the game.

Guided Practice

• Go over the word cards and practice reading each word with the class.
• Hold up a word card and read the sight word aloud. Ask a volunteer to come up to the projected or drawn bingo board and cross off the same sight word.
• Repeat this process for several more words.
• Ask the class to return to their seats and pass out a Sight Word Bingo Card to each student and play several rounds of bingo as a whole class.

Independent working time

• Pass out the Bingo Board worksheets and have students complete them independently.
• Provide students with assistance as needed.