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