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Camilla in VA writes, "My son loves Vocabulary Vine's and is so excited when
new words show up in his life, and he can figure out the meaning by the roots!
Who'd have thought a child would get excited about vocabulary?"
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What do I do?
Give every player a bingo card. Use pennies, dry beans, etc. for markers. Use the game tiles as a source for roots. The caller turns over a tile and reads the root aloud. (See the next section for an explanation of the 1's and 2's.) The players look for the definition of that root on their game cards. Players who have that word on their cards place a marker on it. The first player to mark five boxes in a row (or the four corners) wins.
What do the 1's and 2's mean?
You'll notice a 1 or 2 on all your game tiles (except the red incidental roots). The 1's are on roots you study in the first half of the book (Roots 1-54). The 2's are on roots you study in the second half of the book (Roots 55-108).
You'll also notice a 1 or 2 on the upper right corner of your bingo cards. The roots on the #1 tiles correspond to the definitions on the #1 bingo cards. The #2 tiles go with the #2 bingo cards. So earlier in the year, use the #1 bingo cards with the #1 tiles since you haven't learned any of the later roots yet. Later in the year you can use the #2 cards with the #2 tiles.
What about the 1* and 2*? Twelve tiles have a 1* or 2*. Those are study roots that do not appear on any bingo cards.
Sometimes no one has a match
Sometimes two roots have the same meaning, such as hydro and aqua. So if the caller calls "hydro," you'll cover your "water" square on your bingo card. If the caller calls "aqua" later, you won't find "water" because you already covered it. There's just a few of those in each set.
Be flexible
Sometimes two roots have similar definitions. Put another way, one definition can arguably match more than one root. How much "wiggle room" should you allow? It's up to you, but I would recommend that accept a definition that is close, such as beside/beyond vs. above/beyond.
Feedback, Please
I play-tested these bingo cards, but I may have missed something. If you encounter a problem, or something doesn't make sense, or I didn't explain something, or anything else doesn't seem to work right, please, oh please e-mail me so I can fix it, and others won't have the same frustration!
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