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