

I have used proficiency-based rubrics, Six Traits Writing rubrics, and no rubrics for when the writing piece is meant to be a springboard into something else, but not assessed.

Once you have your word list all set, decide whether you want to assess your students’ writing or not and, if so, how. Other times, I created a Word Cloud by copying and pasting a recent text from class–or several recent texts–into an online word cloud generator.Įither way, you’ll need to have a set of words and phrases ready for your students to choose for (40+ will make for a more competitive game), and a way for them to see them so that they can choose which ones to fill in (I relied on projecting the list or word cloud). Your word lists can be high frequency words, topic-specific words, or filled with completely random words and phrases! Typically, I projected a list of all of the Core Vocabulary words that we had covered in class thus far in the year. There are three things that you’ll need to do before class to make sure that you’re ready to play: first, create a word list second, choose a rubric third, make a plan for BINGO chips. option, or for a sub plan activity… but language acquisition? The value is about ZERO. This is my attempt at legitimizing a fun activity (BINGO) that doesn’t actually help students learn language.
