When my daughter described to me a game that sounded like Bingo, but with words, that she'd played at kindergarten, I realized that this was one game I could make myself and, better yet, custom-tailor to her reading level. I wrote out a list of about 30 words, mixing harder ones with easier ones. I then created three-by-three grids and placed the words in them randomly, making sure to ultimately use all the ones on my master list. To play, she selected a game board and I called off words from the master list, making sure not to peek at her game board. If the word I called was on her board, she placed a token (we used ones from another, packaged board game) on that square. When she had three in a row in any direction (across, down or diagonally) she had Bingo! Some of our words were: rainbow, library, perfect, drink, exit. And as we read together, I've been jotting down words she has trouble with for future iterations of the game.
What words would you put in Word Bingo?
"clean"; "time out"; "quiet"; "whine"
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