Bingo is an excellent educational tool, educator Rita Weiss explained. Years of education-related work have resulted in a love for bingo and an appreciation of the game as a very valuable tool, especially when it comes to non-natives.

The game can be used to teach anything to students of every age, Weiss explained. “The reason that it’s educational for both adults and children is that they have to learn to listen,” she added. It is useful for teaching vocabulary in foreign languages but also in the first language of the pupil. It can be applied to school subjects as well.

Weiss has used Bingo as a tool for her Speak Better English Institute. Based in Bridgewater, NJ, her business will soon be expanded to Atlantic City and later to the rest of the state. Some of the bingo-related activities are bingo themed birthday parties and Smarty Parties –use of bingo cards to teach children.

A retired speech therapist, Weiss has worked with minorities for a long time. Her business began in 1996, though she still enjoys playing bingo just for fun.