(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.
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This is the most important idea that a piece is about. All facts relate back to this.
The resolution to the main conflict in a story. This is how the problem is solved.
Using what you know and what is in the story to make a decision about the characters or events. Also known as making an inference.
A story’s underlying meaning or big idea. This could be what you are supposed to learn from the story.
These are pieces of information that tell more about the main idea.
Telling what you think might happen next in a story or article based on what has already happened.
The time and place in which a story occurs.
The author’s reason for writing, for example: inform, entertain, persuade.
The main conflict in the story that needs resolution.
This is telling how two or more things are alike.
This is telling how two or more things are different.
The words around an unfamiliar word that can be used to figure out meaning.
A short statement, no more than a few sentences, that tells the main idea of a piece.
The way a piece of writing is organized.
Explaining something in your own words but keeping the writer’s meaning.
This is a broad statement or rule that applies to many examples.
Thinking about and deciding how to react toward people, situations, or ideas in stories and articles that you read.
This is what happens because of something else.
A series of events that center on a problem or conflict in a narrative story.
These are the people or animals in a story or nonfiction article.
The order in which things happen or steps followed to do something.
This is why something happens. It makes something happen.
This is a statement that can be proved true or false.
This is a statement that tells your ideas or feelings.