Friday before the unit test, and the room will not do a worksheet. You have twenty minutes, a stack of vocab, and a class that has heard every word on the list about nine times. Bingo is the same twenty minutes - except now there is a reason to listen to the definition.

The trick is that nobody reads the word aloud. The caller reads what it means, and the student has to find the word that matches. That is the difference between a review game and a word search, and it is why the quiet kid at the back covers four squares before the kid who talks the most.

What is in the download

• Grammar Bingo - 24 terms from noun to contraction, each with a one-line definition written for a grade 4-8 reader.

• Geometry Bingo - 24 terms from point to perimeter, same treatment.

• 6 player cards per set - the same 24 words on every card, laid out differently, so a neighbour's card is no use. Two cards to a page, 14 pages in total.

• 24 caller cards per set, cut-and-keep-face-down, definition on the front and the term in the band so you can check it at a glance.

• A side panel on every player card - the rule in three lines, a name box, and a "words you did not know by the end" box that turns the game into an exit ticket.

• Blank boards for the 24 words of your own next unit, with the ten-minute method for making a set on the second page.

• Call tracker and win sheet - tick the cards as you read them, and write the winning line down so you know which words the room already owns.

• Five variants: blackout, four corners, call-twice, silent round, and the backwards round where you call the term and they cover the definition.

• 10-slide editable deck (.pptx) - both ready boards, all 48 caller cards, and a blank board, every one of them a text box. Change the words, duplicate the slide, print. Upload it to your Drive and open with Google Slides, or run it straight from PowerPoint.

• Print pages in both Letter and A4 and a README with the page order and how to run the first round.

Who buys this: anyone finishing a vocabulary unit in grade 4-8, resource and ELL teachers who need the definition read twice without it feeling like it, substitute teachers who want a game with the rules printed on the card, and the last period on a Friday.

No login, no app, no smartboard required. Cut the caller cards, hand out the boards, and read the first definition out loud - the room works out the rest.

Also from this shop: the Editable Review Game Template (the team board race that pairs well with this), the Classroom Jobs Kit, Executive Functioning Task Cards, and Phishing Lab, Password Lab and Spooky Inbox.

License: one classroom, unlimited students and unlimited years. Edit and print it for your own students; please do not resell it or post it on a public site.