In this twist on traditional bingo, the game boards feature students' names, and students answer questions designed to help them learn more about one another when their names are called.

This lesson introduces Family Message Journals—a teacher-tested tool for encouraging family involvement and supporting writing to reflect and to learn.

Through interactive writing, students work together and then independently to create invitation letters for a group of their peers and their families.

Name games make learning letters fun and interactive in this lesson where students get to know more about each other as they spell out their classmates' names.