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