Classroom management can be a doozy! I wanted something fun and engaging to help my students stay focused throughout the year that hit multiple classroom expectations. I love changing up what I use in my classroom to help my students manage behaviors. These classroom Management bingo boards are perfect!
Any reader ages 7 to teen can use this downloadable Bingo activity for any book, especially fiction books. Unlike my previous Reading Challenges printable, this Reading Bingo game includes different reading.
I usually introduce the bingo board during morning meeting. We talk about ways we can earn a bingo piece as a class.. working together, staying on task, participating, transitioning quickly, etc. We decide on what prize we would want to earn as a class! Throughout the day when I see our class doing something to earn a piece for the board I pull it from a small pail near the white board or have a student do it for us!
- Shapes and Colors Bingo (Color Blind Version) Sports Bingo. Sports Bingo (Easy) St. Patrick's Day Bingo. Thanksgiving Bingo. Summer Olympics Bingo. Arctic Animals Bingo. Arctic Animals with Text Bingo. Consonant Blends Bingo. Consonant Digraphs Bingo. Long Vowel Bossy E Bingo.
- Host the game with the online bingo caller Our virtual bingo caller allows you to draw random numbers as in professional bingo halls. Our bingo caller is linked to the cards, so it tells you in real time the.
- Math BINGO is a fun way for children to practice math facts on the computer. Choose from addition, subtraction, multiplication or division BINGO, then select a level of difficulty. Recommended for.
They love seeing what piece we pulled and seeing how close we are to earning a bingo. It’s an exciting and FREE tool to help with classroom management – that the students truly enjoy!
Every class bingo theme includes:
-6 Ready to use bingo boards with editable prize space:
-classroom bingo
-transitions bingo
-homework bingo
-kindness bingo
-teamwork bingo
-participation bingo
-Blank editable bingo board to add your own topic
-5 Classroom bingo boards with ready to go prizes filled in
-Bingo pieces
-How to use
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Bingo is a classic gambling game where players mark off numbers on cards as the numbers are drawn randomly by a caller, the winner being the first person to mark off all their numbers on their Bingo card. However, this game can easily altered to be used to teach ESL vocab in your classroom to older kids, teens and adults.
How to Play Bingo?
To play Bingo for ESL, you'll need at least 15-25 words which you’ve been studying recently in your English classes. Next, you’ll need to make your Bingo cards. You can see a normal bingo card with numbers below:
This is a normal Bingo card with numbers. The caller at the front slowly calls out random numbers from 1-90. If a player has a number on their card, then they scribble out the number. The first player to scribble out all their numbers is the winner. Each Bingo card is different, so there can only be one winner.
Making your ESL Bingo cards
In this ESL Bingo version, you’ll need to create Bingo cards for each student in your class, but instead of using numbers, they’ll have recently studied vocabulary on their cards.
Making Bingo cards for each ESL student sounds like too much hassle, but there is a website which will randomly generate ESL Bingo cards…all you need to do is to type in your 15-25 words, hit ‘Enter’, and the website will instantly generate all your Bingo cards…easy!
You can generate your ESL Bingo cards to practice vocabulary here.
Playing Bingo in ESL Classes
Hand out one Bingo card to each student. Each Bingo card should have nine or so words from your full list of words. Each Bingo card will be different.
Explain to your class that you’ll be calling out words from your list and that the students need to listen carefully. If they have a word on their Bingo card which you call out, then they need to cross out the word.
How to win ESL Bingo
Keep calling out ESL vocabulary from your list and you’ll see students crossing off the words on their cards as they hear them. Eventually, one student will have crossed out all of their words and should shout out ‘Bingo!’ to show that they’ve finished. The teacher should then check the student’s card to see that they have all the words you’ve said.
This is a super easy and enjoyable game for students and you can be sure that they’ll want to play Bingo for learning vocabulary again. If students use pencils, then they can rub out their pencil on their bingo cards and you can all play Bingo again.
Instead of just using words, why not give definitions?
For older students, or those with better English, instead of calling out the word, you can call out the definition, so students need to listen more carefully and think about the meaning of the words on your card. Playing Bingo to practice vocabulary and lexis is a great activity for your students and you can be sure that they’ll want to play often.
To switch things up, why not have a student come to the front to call out the vocabulary or to give the definitions?
Online Bingo For School
Have fun!
Online Bingo For Students
Want to find other good ESL activities?
Swatter Stories pits two teams of teen or adult students against each other and is fantastic listening practice and a whole lotta fun! Students form two lines and each person at the front has a fly swatter and must listen to your story very carefully and be super fast!
Free Online Bingo For Students
Ring of Fire brings a classic pub drinking game to the classroom for language learning…except no beer, of course!