Teaching Resource
Beginning Sounds Bingo
30 different bingo cards using beginning sounds.
Print out the bingo and sound cards and laminate them.
Pull the sound cards out and have students put a marker over the picture that starts with that sound if they have it on their card. Your students can decide if they need to find three pictures vertically or horizontally to win.
There is a blank card provided for you to add any pictures of your own.
NSW Curriculum alignment
- ENe-6B
Recognises that there are different kinds of spoken texts with specific language features and shows an emerging awareness of some purposes for spoken language
- ENe-8B
Demonstrates emerging skills and knowledge of texts to read and view, and shows developing awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter
- ENe-10C
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts
- EN1-5A
Uses a variety of strategies, including knowledge of sight words and letter–sound correspondences, to spell familiar words
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELA226
Understand how to use digraphs, long vowels, blends, silent letters and syllabification to spell simple words including compound words
- VCELA168
Identify rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and some sounds (phonemes) in spoken words
- VCELA181
Recognise short vowels, common long vowels and consonant digraphs, and consonant blends
- VCELA182
Understand how to spell one and two syllable words with common letter patterns
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELA1778
Understand how to spell one and two syllable words with common letter patternsElaborationswriting one-syllable words containing known blends, for example 'bl' and 'st' (Skills: Literacy)(View this topic on www.australiancurriculum.edu.au )
- ACELA1439
Recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken wordsElaborationsrecognising and producing rhyming words when listening to rhyming stories or rhymes, for example âfunnyâ and âmoney...
- ACELA1458
Use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant digraphs and consonant blends when writing, and blend these to read single syllable wordsElaborationsusing knowledge of letters and sounds to write words with short vowels, for example âmanâ, ...
- ACELA1471
Understand how to use knowledge of digraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell one and two syllable words including some compound wordsElaborationsusing knowledge of known words to spell unknown words, for example using the word â...

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The game has been updated to focus on initial sounds (including three digraphs) rather than blends.
Change by Paul (Teach Starter) Mar 8th, 2020
Low colour version added.
Addition by Paul (Teach Starter) Feb 12th, 2020
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Hi, this game should really be entitled “beginning blends” as it is not using single sounds which is the impression the title gives. Cheers,
Su Foster · Mar 8th, 2020
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Paul (Teach Starter) · Mar 9th, 2020
Hi,
Do you have a resource that is the same as this, but for beginning single sounds, not blends and digraphs?
Thanks.
Jennifer Wallace · Apr 1st, 2018
Hi there Jennifer,
This bingo game focuses on the beginning letter (which could also be used as the beginning sound). Do you think it might be what you are looking for?
https://www.teachstarter.com/teaching-resource/initial-sounds-bingo/
Stephanie (Teach Starter) · Apr 6th, 2018