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An interactive classroom activity designed to reinforce students' decoding skills. In this game, students practice identifying syllable types, counting syllables in printed words, and breaking words into their syllabic components. It encourages active learning, enhances phonemic awareness, and provides a fun way to engage with language skills. This activity is ideal for supporting reading development and building confidence in word analysis.

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Games For Learning the Six Syllable Types? Bingo!

It's a universal fact known to all primary teachers - children love playing ! What better way to learn about the six different types of syllables than grabbing a game board and a handful of counters and playing a fun game with a group of classmates?

Play with Open and Closed Syllables and More!

This resource contains 50 unique game boards (or 25 double game boards), making it perfect for whole-class play. The game also contains 18 syllable-type calling cards (three for each syllable type).

1. Pass out a game board and some counters to each student. Each space on the game board has a word broken into syllables. Students need to pay attention to the underlined syllable in each word.

2. Using the calling cards, call out a syllable type. If the teacher calls out the syllable type that is underlined in the word on their game board, students may place a counter over that space. They may only place one counter on the board at a time, even if there are additional examples of that syllable type on their board.

3. Continue calling out syllable types. Once a student covers all of the words on their card, they win the game!

4. Continue as often as needed, or have students switch to a new game board after each round.

Tips for Differentiating Your Phonics Games

This activity has been designed to help your students gain practice in listening for and distinguishing between the six types of . Some students may find this easier to do than others! Should you need to differentiate this activity for the diverse learning needs of your students, here are some suggestions.

For students who require support, scaffolding is the key! Allow students to write down the syllable type of the underlined syllable in each space before the game begins. This will help the students to identify the relevant words as the syllable types are called, allowing the game to continue more quickly.

For students who require an extension, encourage them to create their own bingo game board to use for the game, consisting of their own selection of words. Be sure that they include examples of all six syllable types when choosing their words.

Download the File Format That Best Suits You

Use the dropdown menu next to the Download button to access this resource's PDF, or Google slides version.

We recommend printing this resource on cardstock for increased longevity and durability.

Store the game boards and calling cards together in a large envelope for easy storage.

This resource was created by Lisamarie Del Valle, a teacher in Florida and a Teach Starter collaborator.

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Practice identifying the six syllable types in common words with this fun and engaging bingo game.

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Highlights the importance of matching children with books suited to their reading level to support fluency. Parents can use the website to learn strategies for helping young readers. Encouraging fluency involves providing books children can read independently and confidently. To make reading enjoyable, parents can collaborate with their children to create a personalized book for repeated, confident reading.

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Learn at Home Activities for Fluency - Down Syndrome Resource Foundation

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Fluency refers to the rate, expression, and smoothness with which a person reads. Although pacing is a part of it, we prefer to focus on the quality of reading over the speed. Fluent readers read as though they are talking. They attend to punctuation, use phrasing rather than reading word for word, use different voices [...]

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The Humpty Dumpty Pocket Chart Retell is a teaching activity designed to help students improve their sequencing skills, comprehension, and story retelling abilities. It provides differentiated materials to support both struggling learners and advanced students who finish tasks early. This activity fosters engagement and ensures all students can work at their own pace. For more details, refer to the original site mentioned.

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Retelling the Humpty Dumpty Rhyme

Have you ever been in the middle of reading something and realized you had no idea what it was about? Good reading comprehension requires rewording and storing pictures in our memory as we read. We help children to learn this skill by having them retell stories. Story retelling helps early readers by

Developing Sequence Skills

Increasing comprehension and understanding of text,

Developing memory skills.

This pocket chart retelling activity is a great way to get students to develop their reading comprehension skills. Students will read and retell the Humpty Dumpty lyrics with pocket chart cards containing words and images. This activity can be used with preschool and kindergarten students.

Through this activity, students will increase overall reading comprehension and sequencing skills.

Differentiate and Scaffold Your Retelling Lessons

A team of dedicated, experienced educators created this resource to support your reading comprehension lessons.

In addition to individual student work time, use this activity to enhance learning through guided reading groups, whole class lessons, or remote learning assignments.

Suppose you have a mixture of above and below-level learners and ELL/ESL students. In that case, we have a few suggestions for keeping students on track with these concepts:

🆘 Support Struggling Students

Invite students to use a visual of story elements such as an anchor chart or classroom poster.

➕ Challenge Fast Finishers

Encourage students to further their learning by explaining their reasoning for the order they sorted the images on the cards.

Plan lessons for all ability levels with our 10 Best Scaffolding Strategies!

Easily Prepare This Resource for Your Students

Use the dropdown arrow on the Download button to choose the printable PDF file or editable Google Slides download.

Pair this resource with our Humpty Dumpty Teaching Slides and Worksheet Pack.

This resource was created by Samantha Rose, a teacher in Florida and Teach Starter collaborator.

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Read and retell the story within the Humpty Dumpty tale with a set of retelling pocket chart cards.

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Mystery Bag Activity: This is a fun, educational activity parents can do with their children at home to build communication skills and sound fluency. Here's how it works:

1. Setup: Parents fill a small bag with picture cards of various objects.

2. Activity: The child selects a card, names the object, and identifies the sound it starts with.

3. Extension: An alphabet chart is used to match the object to the corresponding letter.

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Montessori Inspired Phonics Mystery Bag Game

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Pinay Homeschooler is a blog that shares homeschool and afterschool activity of kids from babies to elementary level.

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Sight Word Bingo is an engaging classroom activity that helps students practice and learn new vocabulary. While often used with sight words, the game can be adapted for any new words relevant to the lesson. Here's how it works:

1. Setup: The teacher prepares a bingo grid with target words and places word cards in a bowl.

2. Gameplay: The teacher draws a word from the bowl, and students mark the corresponding word on their bingo grid.

3. Winning: The first student to mark four words in a row (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally) shouts "Bingo!" and wins a prize.

This activity enhances students' ability to recognize words visually and phonetically, making it a fun and educational tool for vocabulary building.

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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.

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

7.3 Dolch Sight Words Bingo Cards

7.3.a Dolch Sight Words 5×5 Bingo Cards

7.3.b Dolch Sight Words 4×4 Bingo Cards

7.3.c Dolch Sight Words 3×3 Bingo Cards

7.4 Fry Sight Words Bingo Cards

7.4.a Fry Sight Words 5×5 Bingo Cards

7.4.b Fry Sight Words 4×4 Bingo Cards

7.4.c Fry Sight Words 3×3 Bingo Cards

7.5 Top 150 Written Words Bingo Cards

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

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

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

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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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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"Guess My Word" is an engaging activity for teachers to demonstrate that spoken words consist of individual sounds. Students listen to letter sounds and try to guess the word. The site provides strategies to adapt the activity, making it easier or more challenging to accommodate students with diverse learning needs.

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Step 1: Add more challenge by increasing the number of choices. Invite your child to choose three favorite stuffed animals or dolls. Then add three more that begin with the same sounds as the ones your child chose. For example, your child might choose a cat, bear and a mouse, and then you could choose a cow, bird and a monkey. By having a selection of toys that have the same beginning sound, your child will have to listen to more than just the beginning sound in order to correctly identify the toy you name.

Step 2: Tell your child that you are going to say the name of one of his stuffed toys in a funny way and that you want him to guess which word you are trying to say.

Step 3: Name each toy aloud as you place it in on the floor in front of your child. Say the first sound of the toy you chose...pause... and then say the rest of the word. For example, if you chose a bear, you might say, "I'm going to say the name of an animal in a funny way. Let's see if you can guess my word. Listen: /b/...ear /b/...ear What's my word? That's right! My word is bear!"

Step 4: You might try saying each syllable slowly and having your child guess the word. You could say, "See if you can guess this word. Listen: ti...ger ti...ger. What's my word?"

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Guess My Word! - Nemours Reading BrightStart!

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When you play simple word games with your 4-year-old, you are teaching him that spoken words are made up of individual sounds and that words can be broken into smaller parts. In this game, your child will learn to listen carefully to the first sound in a word and then "guess your word" by blending the remaining sounds together.

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Learning vocabulary is an excellent way to enhance children's communication skills and reading fluency. Parents can support this at home through activities like using flashcards, picture books, storytelling, and riddles. A "Word of the Week" activity is particularly effective, where parents introduce age-appropriate words weekly. They can create a mix of easy and challenging words, write them on index cards, and display them around the house. Day by day, children can practice by creating sentences or recognizing the words as sight words. This approach is adaptable for children with disabilities, who can participate by swapping out words, writing them, or simply identifying them in their environment.

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Browse osmo words resources on Teachers Pay Teachers, a marketplace trusted by millions of teachers for original educational resources.

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Teachers can select any age-appropriate books for students and implement effective reading strategies. Repeated reading improves fluency by having students read the same passage multiple times, while assisted reading helps them connect with words and read more quickly. Teachers are encouraged to incorporate these strategies in their classrooms to support student learning.

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This resource offers a variety of games to support parents in fostering phonics awareness at home. Using materials like letters and flashcards provides children with helpful visuals to aid learning. Activities such as Phonics Bingo focus on letter recognition and matching, promoting both literacy skills and parent-child interaction. The activity is adaptable for children with disabilities, allowing for modifications like keeping cards face-up to facilitate matching and practicing letter sounds.

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We're big believers that phonics can be FUN - in the classroom or at home! If you're a parent who wants your little learner to practice their phonics at home (without giving them extra homework) try these fun, easy and quick games.

This one may require you to move your kitchen table out the way...

Put magnetic letters (find your Letterland ones ) in a bowl on the other side of your kitchen to the fridge (or in the other room if you really want to tire out your little learner).

The 'race' to the fridge will keep your little learner interested in this educational game!

This one is super simple and also works well if you have more than one child.

First, create a grid on a piece of paper, and write down various letters/spelling patterns (dependent on what level of phonics is suitable for your child).

Next, take out a pack of flashcards (try the First Reading Flashcards for just Aa-Zz or our Letter Sound Cards for a-z, digraphs and trigraphs) and mix them up.

Pull out a card at random and say the letter/spelling sound out loud - if your child has the correct sound written down, they can cross it off. Once they've crossed off everything, get them to shout 'BINGO!'.

Some sounds have more than one spelling (e.g. 'c' and 'k' or 'y' and 'ie') so your little learners will get double points if they have both!

This game will help your child make the connection between letter sounds and shapes in a quick and enjoyable way. A super simple way to practice phonics for a few minutes every day!

This game can be done at home, in the car, on the walk to school - anywhere!

Begin by letting your child be the 'guesser'. Say to them, for example, "I live near a farm and a forest and I like to go fishing every Friday at f ive o'clock. Who am I?".

Move on by switching roles, so that your child makes you guess which Letterlander they are talking about.

This provides a great opportunity for some phonics fun that will help your child improve their speaking and listening skills.

Thanks for reading! Want to know more about helping your little learners on their road to literacy? Check out our blog posts on rhyming skills, handwriting practice, making words, and learning alphabet sounds and shapes.

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Easy & Quick Phonics Games to Play at Home!

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We're big believers that phonics can be FUN - in the classroom or at home! If you're a parent who wants your little learner to practice their phonics at home (without giving them extra homework) try these fun, easy and quick games.