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Beginning Sounds Bingo
Lesson #9672

Concept:

Help students recognize beginning sounds by playing a Bingo game.

Objective:

Given a Bingo board and pieces, play a creative phonics game to develop a better sense of beginning sounds.

Recommended Grade Levels: 1-2, Pre-K-K

Curriculum: English Language Arts

English Language Arts: Evaluation Strategies and Applying Language Skills

K-12:Standard 3

  • Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).

K-12: Standard 12

  • Students use spoken, written and visual language to accomplish their own purposes (e.g., for learning, enjoyment, persuasion and the exchange of information).

Standards for the English Language Arts, by the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English, Copyright 1996 by the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English. Reprinted with permission.

Source: NCTE/IRA Standards for the English Language Arts

The teacher will guide a phonics lesson by playing a letter-sound recognition game. Student knowledge is tested as they list the beginning sound or blend and then say a given word with that beginning. Students may suggest alternative words that have the same beginning sound.

Medium_beginning_sound_bingo_fa_lg
(Figure A)
Medium_beginning_sound_bingo_fb_lg
(Figure B)
Medium_beginning_sound_bingo_fc_lg
(Figure C)
Medium_beginning_sound_bingo_fd_lg
(Figure D)

Supplies Used: Cardstock, Glue, Press-On Letters, Scissors

The teacher will die-cut the materials for student use prior to the lesson.

  1. Die-cut Bingo Cards from construction paper or cardstock. Cut enough for the entire class.
  2. Die-cut the letters "BINGO" from 1 1/4" letters and adhere them to Bingo Cards, or use adhesive press-on letters.
  3. Print or computer-generate beginning sounds for each Card. Use blends like "ch" and single letters like "b." Every Card should be completely different (Figure A).
  4. Laminate completed Cards for longer use.
  5. Die-cut Markers from laminated construction paper or cardstock using the Bingo Markers die. Markers may also be created using Circles 9-Up, Squares 12-Up, or any Tiny die (Figure B).
  6. Die-cut Game Card from construction paper or cardstock using the Rectangle 4-Up, the Cards, Playing Die or the Test Die from the XL Machine Tool Kit.
  7. Print or adhere computer-generated words using the beginning sounds and blends to the Game Cards. Again, laminate Cards for longer use (Figure C).
  8. Game Directions: The teacher will pick up a Game Card and say the word that appears on it. Students will listen for the beginning sound. If they have that sound/blend on their Card, they cover it with a marker (Figure D). Once the student has five squares in a row, they call "Bingo."