The first person to fill out a row either horizontally or vertically shouts, “Bingo,” and the game ends. Variation: You can shorten this activity to 10 minutes by applying the rules of Bingo. Continue until every student has every box filled in. You can use each name in your class only once. The person you find who is different than you are will write his or her name in the box. For example, if you are left-handed, you have to find someone who is right-handed. For each question on the Human Bingo Card, students will find a person in the group who would answer it differently. Give each participant a Human Bingo Card. “The goal of this session is to discover people who are different from you and celebrate those differences.” Just by asking questions, students will find that there are many different experiences, backgrounds, and preferences in the group. Process: What were some of the ways the characters in the book were different? Was this book serious or silly? How do you think the message of this book might apply to our classroom or our school? Main Activity: Play Human Bingo (15 Minutes) Before beginning ask: “As you listen, try to remember all the ways people in the book are different.”

Read Aloud Todd Parr’s picture book, It’s Okay To Be Different. Gather Together/Warm Up/Bell Ringer (10 Minutes)

.2 – Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.

.1 – Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

Anchor Standards for Speaking and Listening: Comprehension and Collaboration..10 – Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.Anchor Standards for Writing: Range of Writing..4 – Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.Anchor Standards for Writing: Production and Distribution of Writing..7 – Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.Anchor Standards for Literacy: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.Lesson 3: Cross the Line – We belong to many groups.Lesson 1: “If I Had a Hammer” – Theme song.

Lesson 4: Slowing Down the Escalator with “I” Messages.

Lesson 1: “Down By the Riverside” – Theme song.

Lesson 1: “This Little Light of Mine: – Theme song.

Lesson 1: The “Don’t Laugh at Me” Song – Theme Song.

School/District wide implementation support.

Making bingo for language classroom