Thursday, September 9, 2010

Make Your Own Grammar Bingo


Under the guise of trying to make grammar 'fun', I  created a grammar bingo this past Monday. I'm sure there is something already out there that I could buy but I wanted something now. I thought I'd share what I did in case anyone could use the same.

I first went here to 5x5 Bingo Card Maker to make my own card. You can put in 25 words. I put in the 8 parts of speech over and over until all 25 where full. (Noun, Pronoun, Adjective, Verb, Adverb, Conjunction, Interjection, Preposition). It will randomly make you a card. I changed the 'free space' into another part of speech spot. I then randomly generated several cards, printing in between on cardstock. Yes, it prints all those words at the bottom. Doesn't matter, I just cut out my cards. I personally left an 1" on the left so I could punch holes and keep the cards in my 3-ring binder.

Next I looked for a concise list of words for each part of speech. Difficult to do for some since there can be upwards of 800 words on a part of speech. I randomly chose words and put them together on a paper. You can print it from the PDF document below:

I plan to highlight the words I call on the list, making sure to call from each part randomly.  I can always print out a new list for when we've crossed off all the words but I imagine by then, she'll know them perfectly!

We used our set yesterday. It was a bit harder to describe what conjunction and prepositions were so we watched the Schoolhouse Rock Conjunction video and Grammar Rock's Preposition video. Be forewarned though, the catchy little tunes will get stuck in your head.

If this works out to be a fun way to learn, I may be doing a Types of Sentences one next!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fantastic idea! Thanks for sharing! I can't wait to give this a try!

Nancy Kelly said...

Great idea! What a creative mom your children have - even with grammar!
Godspeed,
Nancy

A. Craig said...

Thank you! I wanted to create a game like this for my upcoming homeschool co-op class. i'm glad I did a search and found your site . . . you made this project very easy for me!

Contessa Kris said...

I'm glad you like it. We used it for quite awhile with our grammar program. Enjoy!

Anonymous said...

You are my hero! I just created what has to be the most boring powerpoint ever on grammar! I needed to add a little fun!

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