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About: This bingo card is perfect for early readers or young learners working on simple CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words. With a playful and upbeat tone, it encourages kids to recognize and practice basic three-letter words during classroom activities, reading circles, or family game nights focused on literacy and phonics skills.
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How to play Short a Bingo Cards?
Paper Players: Print PDF bingo cards and manually write on the cards.
Paper Caller: Print PDF calling list & calling slips and manually draw the slips.
Virtual Players: Click on the Play button above, and then click on the 🎫 button.
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Step-By-Step:
Start by downloading the Short a PDF by clicking on the "Print" button above.
Open the PDF and print it.
For random calling, you can print another copy of the call list, cut, fold and then pull them randomly at play time.
Cut the bingo cards at the cut marks if there are greater than 1 bingo cards per page.
Distribute one card per player. For marking, you can use pens. Crayons are the cheapest.
Pick one person to be the caller. If you are playing in a small group, the caller may also play along with their own Bingo card.
The caller begins the play by randomly drawing an item from the call list and announcing it to everyone.
The players look at their cards to see if they have the called word. If they do, they dab that word.
The first player to finish a horizontal, vertical, or a diagonal line of crossed items announces "Bingo!" and wins the game.
The caller verifies that the items crossed off form a correct line as per the Bingo card and call list.
You can play for multiple patterns or a full card blackout for an extended game.
This Short a Bingo Cards Game contains following Words or Phrases: mat, sat, cat, map, hat, crab, bat, can.