Academic Vocabulary - 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. to give reasons or evidence to prove something
   Justify
2. An explanation why you used that text-evidence
   Reasoning
3. Narrative techniques that make your writing more interesting (Ex: simile, idiom)
   Narrative Craft Moves
4. to figure out
   Determine
5. A strategy to annotate and understand a test question
   Break Down the Question
6. NOT related to a topic
   Irrelevant
7. to give a brief overview of the main points of something.
   Summarize
8. A list of sources used in an essay
   Works Cited Page
9. No opinions, just facts
   Non-biased
10. The author's exact words in quotation marks
    Direct Quote
11. The first sentence of a paragraph that says what the paragraph will be about
    Topic Sentence
12. an opinion statement that can be supported with evidence.
    Claim
13. Using someone else's words and not giving them credit
    Plagiarism
14. to make a conclusion about the reading using text evidence and background knowledge.
    Inference
15. The life lesson or moral of the story
    Theme
16. to decide if something is good or bad
    Evaluate
17. related to a topic
    Relevant
18. to restate information using your own words
    Paraphrase
19. to explain how & why
    Analyze
20. Adding a citation to the end of a sentence
    In-text citation
21. A question that is answered through research
    Research Question
22. What would you evaluate in a science experiment?
    the data collected in the science experiment
23. How to analyze a character in a story
    Look at the character's actions, thoughts, and motivations
24. Best/Most Important
    Significant
25. A strategy using process of elimination to determine an answer
    Yes, No, Maybe So
26. facts or details from a reading to support or prove an answer
    Text-Evidence
27. How do you justify your answer in a math problem?
    explain your reasoning and show your math calculations
28. a statement saying what the article is mostly about
    Main Idea
29. an outline or plot diagram that is used to plan your writing
    Graphic Organizer
30. A strategy to evaluate answer options as a trick answer or important answer
    Interesting or Important?
31. the clues around the unknown word to get the meaning
    Context Clues