Varied Sentence Openers and Effective Literacy Devices - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. Varied
2. Begin with a simile 'like a disease'
3. Varied punctuation
4. Repetition
5. Extended metaphor
6. Begin with connective 'Meanwhile
7. Begin with 'ing' word, 'Looming'
8. Alliteration
9. Onomatopoeia E.g . 'crash'
10. Begin with an adverb 'Savagely'
11. Assonance
12. Powerful verbs
13. An ed word such as 'Panicked'
14. Free!
15. Hyperbole (exaggeration)
16. Emotive Language
17. Begin with preposition, 'Behind..'
18. Short sentence for impact
19. Personification