Practice that feels like a game
Bingo makes children read every word on their card again and again while they listen for the next one. It works for a whole class, a small group or a family game night.More word games
Try the word search maker, the crossword maker and sight word worksheets.Provincial curriculum links
- BC Grade 1–3Reading strategies include identifying familiar words and “sight” words, alongside decoding with phonics.
- BC Grade 1Number concepts to 20, including recognizing and arranging numbers.
- ON Grade 1–3Word-level reading is taught in the Foundations of Language strand of the Language curriculum (2023).
Bingo isn’t in any provincial curriculum, but it gives repeated, low-stakes reading of the words a class is working on. Ontario schools now set aside at least 150 minutes every five school days for foundational reading in Grades 1 to 3, and ten minutes of word bingo is an easy way to review the week’s words at the end of one of those blocks.
Your own list lets you match whatever your school uses, whether that is a Dolch level or a board’s high-frequency word list. Number bingo suits Kindergarten and Grade 1, when numbers to 10 and then to 20 are the focus in BC.
Summarized in our own words from BC English Language Arts and Mathematics (Grades 1–3), the Ontario Language curriculum (2023) and Ontario’s Policy/Program Memorandum 168.
