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