Sight words bingo kindergarten

Sight Words Bingo | Sight Words: Teach Your Child to Read

1. Overview
2. Materials
3. Activity
4. Confidence Builder
5. Extension

6. Assessment
7. Printable Bingo Cards
8. Additional Resources
9. Questions and Answers

Sight Words Bingo is our most popular sight words game. It takes the traditional Bingo game and replaces the numbers with words, motivating the child to read the sight words so they can play (and win!) the game. Children love playing Sight Words Bingo, and it is a great way to provide repetition opportunities in a large group setting.

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Each child gets his or her own Bingo Card with a set of words printed on a grid on the face of the card. The adult calls out words one at a time, and each time the child hears a word that is on their card, they cover the word with a marker. When the markers line up to make a complete row (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal), the child yells “Bingo!” and they are declared the winner of that round.

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To play Sight Words Bingo, you just need Bingo cards and some markers:

• Bingo Cards Generator
• Printer paper or cardstock (approximately 110 lb / 200 gsm)
• Printer
• Bingo markers or counters (approximately 20 per player)

Use our Bingo Card Generator to produce one Bingo Card for each child, and print them out (preferably on a heavy-duty cardstock paper). You want to use a mix of newer words that you are currently working on, as well as some words you need to review. The Bingo Card Generator will also create a word list that you can use to help you run the game.

Video: Making Sight Words Bingo Cards

If you will be creating multiple sets of Bingo cards, it is useful to label each set on the back so that you can easily sort out the sets if they get jumbled together. (We learned this the hard way!)

You need some Bingo counters to mark each of the squares as the child plays the game. The counters pictured were purchased, but you can also use pennies, bread bag tags, pebbles, or anything else you have handy. If purchasing plastic markers, we prefer the markers that are plain and single-colored; multiple colors often prove too much of a distraction.

Some people use a Bingo Marker that the child uses to color the square instead of a counter. This gives the children a bit of practice gripping the pens, but it also requires you to hand out fresh Bingo cards for each round.

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Each child is given a Bingo Card and a handful of markers (approximately 20 per child). The children are given 90 seconds to read all the words on their card. If there are any weak readers in the class, the adult should take this time to work with those children to help them read all the words on their card; otherwise they are going to be lost for the rest of the game.

Video: Playing Sight Words Bingo

The adult takes the word list and picks a word at random from the list. The adult reads out the word, uses it in a sentence, then reads out the word again. For example, if the word was plate, the adult could call out:

Adult: Plate. I ate dinner on a round plate. Plate.

The adult then marks off the word from the list to help them remember which words have been called already. The adult takes a long pause between each word to give the children time to play the game.

When the children hear a word called out, they are supposed to look at their Bingo card and see if they can find the word on the card (not every word is on every card). If they find the word, they place a counter on that square.

To win, a child has makes an entire line (five vertical, horizontal, or diagonal squares). For the purposes of making a line, the center space (free space) is considered to be automatically filled. When a child has a line, they yell out “BINGO!”

When a child claims to be the winner, ask her to read out her four or five words that made a line (more reading practice), and check these words on her card and on your word list to make sure she actually heard and marked the words correctly. If she played correctly, that child is declared the winner, and we move on to playing the next round.

We start a new round by having each child pass their card to their left, so that each child has a new card and is given the opportunity to read new words.

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You can make the game easier by reducing the number of squares from the standard 5-by-5 to 4-by-4 or even 3-by-3, and by using a majority of older, more familiar words. You can also allow each child to retain their card for a few rounds so they become more familiar with their cards. As we mentioned, you can help a weak reader at the start of the game by having them read the words to you, correcting any mistakes they have made.

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You can make the game harder by using a majority of newer and less familiar words. You can also add some time pressure and increase the pace at which you read out new words, so that the children have to read the words more quickly. Speeding up the pace of the game helps children master the words, as they are forced to truly read by sight and cannot rely on crutches such as sounding out the initial letters.

Alternately, you can make the game last longer by not declaring a winner until a child covers all the squares on their Bingo card.

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Bingo is not the best game for doing an assessment of individual children. But by observing the whole classroom, you can get a sense for which words are flummoxing the children and need more work, and the words that are becoming too easy and should be removed from rotation because the children have already mastered them.

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Remember that if you are playing with multiple children, each child needs their own card that is different from everyone else’s. Otherwise, everyone will get BINGO at the same time! The pre-made templates below include 30 different Bingo cards made from the same word list, so you can use them for a whole classroom of kids or just one child playing multiple games.

7.1 Custom Sight Words Bingo Cards

Use the Sight Words Bingo Card Creator to create your own custom set of Bingo cards. This generator lets you select from both existing sight words lists (e.g., Dolch and Fry) as well as allowing you to add custom words (e.g., allowing you to add students’ names or words relevant to a unit you are currently doing). The creator will also create a teacher’s word list to help you run the game.

7.2 Blank Bingo Card Templates

• Blank 5×5 Bingo Cards (Write in your own words)
• Blank 4×4 Bingo Cards (Write in your own words)
• Blank 3×3 Bingo Cards (Write in your own words)

7.3 Dolch Sight Words Bingo Cards

7.3.a Dolch Sight Words 5×5 Bingo Cards

• Pre-K Dolch Words (40 words)
• Kindergarten Dolch Words (52 words)
• 1st Grade Dolch Words (41 words)
• 2nd Grade Dolch Words (46 words)
• 3rd Grade Dolch Words (41 words)
• Noun Dolch Words (95 words)

7.3.b Dolch Sight Words 4×4 Bingo Cards

• Pre-K Dolch Words (40 words)
• Kindergarten Dolch Words (52 words)
• 1st Grade Dolch Words (41 words)
• 2nd Grade Dolch Words (46 words)
• 3rd Grade Dolch Words (41 words)
• Noun Dolch Words (95 words)

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• Pre-K Dolch Words (40 words)
• Kindergarten Dolch Words (52 words)
• 1st Grade Dolch Words (41 words)
• 2nd Grade Dolch Words (46 words)
• 3rd Grade Dolch Words (41 words)
• Noun Dolch Words (95 words)

7.4 Fry Sight Words Bingo Cards

7.4.a Fry Sight Words 5×5 Bingo Cards

• 1st 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 2nd 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 3rd 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 4th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 5th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 6th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 7th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 8th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 9th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 10th 100 Fry Words (100 words)

7.4.b Fry Sight Words 4×4 Bingo Cards

• 1st 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 2nd 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 3rd 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 4th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 5th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 6th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 7th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 8th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 9th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 10th 100 Fry Words (100 words)

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• 1st 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 2nd 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 3rd 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 4th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 5th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 6th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 7th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 8th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 9th 100 Fry Words (100 words)
• 10th 100 Fry Words (100 words)

7.5 Top 150 Written Words Bingo Cards

7.5.a Top 150 Written Words 5×5 Bingo Cards

• 1st 50 Words (50 words)
• 2nd 50 Words (50 words)
• 3rd 50 Words (50 words)

7.5.b Top 150 Written Words 4×4 Bingo Cards

• 1st 50 Words (50 words)
• 2nd 50 Words (50 words)
• 3rd 50 Words (50 words)

7.5.a Top 150 Written Words 3×3 Bingo Cards

• 1st 50 Words (50 words)
• 2nd 50 Words (50 words)
• 3rd 50 Words (50 words)

To download a template, right-click and select Save As.

These materials are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Essentially, this means you can do whatever you want with the resources, provided you leave the attribution hallmark on the resources. You may use these materials in the classroom, at home, as part of a for-profit tutoring business, to wrap fish, or for any other purpose your heart desires. You do not need to contact us for permission to use the materials. We want you to use them!

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Bingo Card Creator | Sight Words: Teach Your Child to Read

For instructions on using the Bingo Card Creator, see below.

Number of Bingo Cards

Layout of Bingo Cards

Dolch Sight Words

Fry Sight Words

Top 150 Written Words

Custom Sight Words

Instructions

The Bingo Card Creator creates a custom set of sight words bingo cards. You can use one (or more) of the existing lists of sight words and/or use your own custom word list. To create your Bingo Cards:

1. Under Number of Bingo Cards, use the dropdown box to select the number (1 – 30) of Bingo Cards you wish to create. You will need one card for each student.
2. Under Dolch Sight Words and Fry Sight Words, check the boxes corresponding to any sight words lists you want included in your Bingo Cards. For example, selecting the Dolch Sight Words Kindergarten and 1st Grade lists uses those 93 words for your Bingo Cards.
3. Under Custom Sight Words, enter in any custom words you want added to the Bingo Cards. For example, if you are doing a unit on farm animals, you might want to add cow and pig.
4. Click Create Bingo Cards, and your cards, along with a corresponding word list, will be created and displayed onscreen in PDF format. You can print the cards by selecting print from your browser window.

Video: Making Sight Words Bingo Cards

These materials are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Essentially, this means you can do whatever you want with the resources, provided you leave the attribution hallmark on the resources. You may use these materials in the classroom, at home, as part of a for-profit tutoring business, as part of your evil plot to take over the world, or for any other purpose. You do not need to contact us for permission to use the materials. We want you to use them!

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How imaginary friends help children grow up

It is believed that the appearance of an imaginary friend in a child is a good reason to visit a child psychologist. However, scientists have not thought so for a long time. New York Magazine journalist Cary Romm talked to leading researchers and found out that imaginary friends not only do not harm children, but even bring certain benefits.

The American cartoon "Inside Out" is replete with emotional moments, but the storyline with Bingo-Bongo is certainly the one that viewers remember the most. The imaginary friend of the girl Riley spends the entire film in the labyrinths of her long-term memory: he is almost forgotten, but he faithfully believes that someday he will be remembered again.

Unfortunately, Bingo-Bongo still disappears without a trace. The scene during which Riley's imaginary friend dies can be called the most tragic in the history of Pixar. But until recently, the loss of an imaginary friend was not considered a sad event, rather, on the contrary.

Imaginary friends used to be considered a sign of something unhealthy or even sinister. At the end of May, the American journal Science Friday published an article by science journalist Lauren Jay Young, in which she talks about the phenomenon of imaginary friends: “Historically, many researchers and parents believed that imaginary friends are harmful to children. They were considered a sign of social deficiency, obsession, or mental illness. For example, Ansley Gilpin, a leading psychologist at the University of Alabama, spoke about a case in which one of the parents thought that his daughter had schizophrenia. And the child just had an imaginary friend.”

Fortunately for the owners of imaginary friends and their parents, the idea that imaginary friends are harmful is gradually losing its ultimatum. And the most interesting thing is that they found that a fictional friend is not something pathological, and life in an imaginary world generally helps children develop valuable skills that will be useful in real life.

Scientists say that parents should not worry about their child's imaginary friends. First, it's incredibly common: according to some studies, 65% of American children under the age of seven have an imaginary friend. Secondly, children know that they are not real. Friends that do not exist in reality are not an indicator of loneliness or a lack of social skills in a child, but a completely normal way of realizing children's fantasies.

The ability to invent non-existent characters originates in infancy, when children learn to imitate the manners and habits of adults

says Yale University psychologist Dorothy Singer, one of the first researchers on imaginary friends. - Repetition after adults is a symbolic harbinger of the game. Imitation shows that the child is curious, and he is ready to repeat the sounds and actions of the adults who surround him. It is this skill that can be transformed into an entire imaginary person in the future.

Imaginary friends can even bring cognitive and emotional benefits to their owners. Children with and without imaginary friends are very similar to each other, but there are still some differences. University of Oregon psychologist and author of Imaginary Friends and the Children Who Make Them, Margery Taylor, argues that children who have or have had an imaginary friend are more socialized and less shy. Some research shows that children with imaginary buddies have stronger social understanding and are more successful in applying different skills in real life.

Quite rarely, but it still happens that even healthy adults have imaginary comrades

Some of them they are inseparable from childhood, and some they create as they grow up. “If you read the autobiography of Agatha Christie, which she wrote at the age of 70, you will understand that she still had imaginary friends. And she liked them more than the characters from her books,” says Taylor.

According to the psychologist, you should not worry about imaginary friends, no matter how old they appear. Also, you should not think about why they appeared at all. The world of imaginary friends has no rules. This trend is also seen in famous imaginary friends, each of whom appeared in his own unique way. Kelvin from the famous comic book has Hobbs - a plush tiger with an interesting inner world, and Big Bird from Sesame Street has a friend Mr. Snufflepogoose, who was invisible until the moment when the producers of the program decided to do otherwise.

The most popular definition of an imaginary friend is a completely fictional, invisible being. However, some researchers also include such anthropomorphic creatures as stuffed animals with individual personalities. “Many children choose an object and endow it with personal qualities, reward it with character, talk to it and listen to what it says to them. And I can’t say that imaginary friends don’t interrupt children during conversations,” explains Taylor.

If a child gives a single teddy bear multiple characters depending on the situation, it does not qualify as an imaginary friend. Children with imaginary friends are happy to talk about them as real friends, and children who reward real things with character consider themselves their educators.

Through years of systematic study of imaginary friends, Taylor has amassed a collection of diverse characters. She argues that completely fictional imaginary friends often appear as superheroes or ghosts, but they can also be ordinary people or animals. Animals can be magical (like Dipper, “an invisible flying dolphin that lives on a star”), and people can be much younger or older than a child (like Nobby, “an invisible 160-year-old businessman who communicates with a child between his trips from Portland to Seattle ”), or by his peers with unusual habits (such as “Baintor is a small, completely white man who lives in the light of lamps, or Jerry who lives in a secret cave”).

Sometimes imaginary friends are copies of real people, which children simply add some qualities to

One of the girls who participated in Taylor's study spoke about an imaginary friend for games "Fake Rachel". The fictional girl got her name in honor of her real friend. She would come home and, if Rachel wasn't there, she would play with the Fake Rachel. “By the way, the friendship with Fake Rachel lasted even longer than with the real one,” says the researcher. Also, fictional characters do not always become exactly friends, they are often imaginary girls or boyfriends, husbands, wives, pets or mentors. Any relationship that exists in real life can exist in other worlds.

The difficulty in studying the phenomenon of imaginary friends lies in the fact that it is now difficult for scientists to understand whether they always appeared at an early age. Learning about imaginary buddies is tricky because childhood as we know it now is a relatively new idea. “The view of childhood as a time for growth and development did not exist at all until the 19th century. And the fact that children need to play, using their imagination, they started talking in the middle of the 20th century, scientists say about the history of research on imaginary friends, published in 2006. “Because of this, so few sources are available to us, early theories about imaginary friends are very schematic.” And it is rather difficult to determine which of the early concepts can be applied at the present time. In the old days, the imaginary friends of children (and adults) were mistaken for spiritual or supernatural entities, such as demons or guardian angels.

What exactly influences the appearance of imaginary friends can be identified based on cultural factors. For example, 65% of American friends had or have an imaginary friend, 46% of British children between the ages of five and 12 also had an imaginary friend at least once in their lives. Recent studies by scientists from India and New Guinea have shown that the phenomenon of imaginary friends does not exist in these countries at all. According to former student Taylor from Istanbul, imaginary friends are extremely rare in Turkey. Or maybe kids just don't talk about them that often?

Even outside of culture, relationships with imaginary friends can change as children grow up. But if the child is in high school, an imaginary friend is more likely to scare others. A study of children aged five to 11 showed that they were more likely to keep their imaginary buddies a secret to avoid ridicule from friends and keep their parents from worrying.

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