Learning Resources Sight Word Bingo Review
We’re always looking for ways to make learning more entertaining for the kids. They can learn so much while having fun and playing games. We’re currently attempting to homeschool during lockdown so keeping learning fun has never been more important.
My youngest is five and is currently in reception. We’ve been working a lot on her reading and phonics while we’ve been at home. We’ve been working on blending sounds and recognising common sight words. These are words that are regularly used and the aim is for the child to be so familiar with them they recognise them without having to sound them out. We have flash cards, which have been a great help but we’ve found our daughter learns best through physical activities.
We bought the Learning Resources Sight Word Bingo through Amazon for £6.50 and it looked a great way to familiarise the common sight words through repetition. The price seemed really reasonable considering other phonics games can be really quite pricey.
Within the box you get four double sided game cards, game spinner and 36 star disks and it’s suitable for two to four players.
There are two levels to the game. The first features words from Phase Two of the Letters and Sounds Phonics Framework and focuses on recognising sight words by playing bingo. You spin the spinner and if you have the word you cover it with a star. The aim is to have three words covered in any one line.
The plastic spinner can be removed from the card so it can be turned over to level two. Little Miss found it tricky to see which word it was actually pointing to so needed some help with that. The game cards seem quite robust which is always a bonus in our house!
You can choose to go for a full house if you wanted to but as there’s no way of removing the words already called out, it can take a while as the same words can repeated multiple times.
This level of the game was a great hit, and she’s always keen to play it. There are still words I need to encourage her to still spell out as she confuses them with other words that look similar, for example his and him. However on the whole she has definitely started to recognise the words on sight without the need to chop and blend the word.
The second level features words from Phase Three of the Letters and Sounds Phonics Framework. The level focuses on tricky words that can’t necessarily be sounded out such as the, was and they. Both the spinner and the game cards are double sided so you can simply swap them over for level two.
On the reverse of the bingo cards are captions with highlighted words. The game is played in a similar way to level one, spinning the spinner and covering the image at the end of the sentence that contains the word on the spinner. The first to cover three words wins.
It’s slightly more complex than the first level and is a great way of encouraging the child to read the full sentence.
We have found the Sight Word Bingo to be an excellent buy. It’s well worth the £6.50 we spent and it’s a great way of encouraging children to learn through play.
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Looks like a really fun way to learn. I wish I had had the opportunity to learn reading like this
I've been looking for a way to help the kids with their learning, especially Olivia - and this looks great. Such an affordable price of Amazon too!
What a great game to teach kids through play. My kids are a lot bigger now but this would have been perfect for them when they were learning to read especially since they love playing Bingo
Wow this sounds like a great idea. Will have to show it to my sister. At the moment anything that makes learning fun is a winner right?
What a brilliant idea. Playing games has definitely helped my kids with their schoolwork, as it makes it fun
My youngest has just turned 5 so this game would be ideal for her. I'm always on the lookout for educational games we can play at home.
This sounds like a wonderful resource to check out. Great ideas as well and will definitely show it to my sister.
This is brilliant and a great resource to check out for sure. It is good to keep kids at times like this x
Our youngest has ASC and has been very adverse to doing any formal learning over the last few weeks, will be buying this as if it is masked as fun he is more likely to take part.