Who says school has to be boring? Shake things up a bit with these language arts bingo games!
Rhyme Time
Make rhyming fun by creating bingo cards. Draw or print a grid of sixteen to twenty-five boxes, and fill each box with pictures or words which can be easily matched with rhyming words. Next, make cards with words that rhyme with the pictures or words on the cards. Put the cards in a bowl or bag, draw them out one at a time, and read them aloud. Have children put a marker on the word or picture that rhymes. The first child to get four or five in a row wins!
Rhyme Suggestions
Put one from each pair in word/picture form on a Bingo card, and put the other in word form on a card:
star/car                            ball/tall                            log/hog
dog/frog                           pen/hen                           jet/bet
snow/grow                         book/cook                         hat/mat
ring/king                          mouse/house                       rack/sack
man/pan                           bag/sag                            hand/sand
hat/cat                             box/fox                            slide/hide
rock/sock                           skate/plate                         bear/pear
pail/tail                            hay/play
Alternatives
The same bingo card can be used to have children identify pictures based on called-out words.
Change things up by creating an opposites or parts of speech bingo game.
Parts of Speech Bingo
Put the following parts of speech on a bingo card: noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb.
Repeat each word four or five times, depending on your grid size. Create smaller cards including words that fit these parts of speech, and have student mark the correct part of speech on their card.
Nouns                             Pronouns                           Adjectives
house                             he                                  pretty
boy                                she                                  round
car                                we                                  warm
party                              they                                 tall
sweater                            it                                    heavy
Verbs                             Adverbs
run                                slowly
climb                             quickly
drive                              loudly
play                               happily
eat                                excitedly