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