child care notes

How To Kit
Literacy Games for
Adults
Deninu Kûe

NWT Literacy Council

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Literacy Games for Adults
People of all ages can play literacy games. They can be a lot of fun. They can:
• help reduce tension
• make the learning environment more comfortable
• help build positive relationships, and . . .
• they’re also educational.
And . . . you can play them in any language—English, French, or an Aboriginal language!

In this How to Kit, you will find …
A variety of literacy games for adults, and supporting materials
Ideas on how to adapt them to create more games
Suggestions for adapting them to French or the
Aboriginal languages

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Bingo!
1. Ask participants to choose a theme, such as literacy, home, school, children, etc.
2. Give each participant a Bingo Card (attached), or ask them to make their own.
3. Ask participants to call out 16 words related to that theme, one word at a time—for example, kitchen, garden, etc.
4. Write each word on the board or a flipchart. At the same time, ask each participant to write the word in any of the boxes.
5. Call out the words at random. The first participant to get a straight line and call out “Bingo!” is the winner.
6. You can play this game using French or an Aboriginal language.
Choose a topic like animals or the land, or another topic where people might be familiar with the words. You can call the game another name, if that is more appropriate for your community.

Let’s play Bingo!

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Card

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Group Bingo
1.

Divide participants into groups of 4 or 5.

2.

Give each group a piece of flipchart paper and ask them to fold their sheet into 16 boxes.

3.

Give a different coloured marker to each group.

4.

Using themes like food, cars, countries, etc., ask