the reasonan authorhas forwriting apiece of textauthor'spurposeidentifies aproblem andproposesone or moresolutionsproblemandsolutiontheconnectionsbetween twoor more peopleor thingsrelationshipswhat thetext ismostlyaboutmainideaseventsand theiroutcomescauseandeffectinfer means tomake areasonableconclusion basedon evidencefound in the textinferencetexts that focus onexplaining thingsrelated to science,like the naturalworld, experiments,or scientificdiscoveriesscientifictextthe specificperspective orposition theauthor has ona topicpointof viewa piece of writing,document, or artifactthat providesinformation aboutreal people, places,and events from thepasthistoricaltextexplainssomethingspecific, like howsomething worksor how to dosomething, often astructured formattechnicaltextputting togetherkey details andevidence fromsources in a waythat supportsyour main idea integrateanalyzes thesimilarities anddifferencesbetween ideasin a textcompareandcontrastfacts andideas thatsupport themain ideakeydetailsdetails thatsupport theauthor’sparticularpoints in a textreasonspassagesthatexplain orinforminformationaltextto provide anoverview of textthat states mainpoints but notall the detailssummarizehow ideasinfluenceindividuals/eventsor how individualsinfluenceideas/eventsinteractionsdescription ofevents writtenor told bysomeone whowas therefirsthandaccountorganized fromleast to mostimportant orfrom most toleast importantorder ofimportancestated directly;author tells thereaders exactlywhat they needto knowexplicitideasa description ofevents written ortold by someonewho was not therebut got the storyfrom anothersource secondhandaccounthe order inwhich a seriesof eventshappens;arranged inorder of timechronologicalordersomethingthat provesthe truth ofsomethingelseevidencethe way inwhich apiece ofwriting isstructuredorganizationthe reasonan authorhas forwriting apiece of textauthor'spurposeidentifies aproblem andproposesone or moresolutionsproblemandsolutiontheconnectionsbetween twoor more peopleor thingsrelationshipswhat thetext ismostlyaboutmainideaseventsand theiroutcomescauseandeffectinfer means tomake areasonableconclusion basedon evidencefound in the textinferencetexts that focus onexplaining thingsrelated to science,like the naturalworld, experiments,or scientificdiscoveriesscientifictextthe specificperspective orposition theauthor has ona topicpointof viewa piece of writing,document, or artifactthat providesinformation aboutreal people, places,and events from thepasthistoricaltextexplainssomethingspecific, like howsomething worksor how to dosomething, often astructured formattechnicaltextputting togetherkey details andevidence fromsources in a waythat supportsyour main idea integrateanalyzes thesimilarities anddifferencesbetween ideasin a textcompareandcontrastfacts andideas thatsupport themain ideakeydetailsdetails thatsupport theauthor’sparticularpoints in a textreasonspassagesthatexplain orinforminformationaltextto provide anoverview of textthat states mainpoints but notall the detailssummarizehow ideasinfluenceindividuals/eventsor how individualsinfluenceideas/eventsinteractionsdescription ofevents writtenor told bysomeone whowas therefirsthandaccountorganized fromleast to mostimportant orfrom most toleast importantorder ofimportancestated directly;author tells thereaders exactlywhat they needto knowexplicitideasa description ofevents written ortold by someonewho was not therebut got the storyfrom anothersource secondhandaccounthe order inwhich a seriesof eventshappens;arranged inorder of timechronologicalordersomethingthat provesthe truth ofsomethingelseevidencethe way inwhich apiece ofwriting isstructuredorganization

INFORMATIONAL TEXT 5TH - 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.


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  1. author's purpose
    the reason an author has for writing a piece of text
  2. problem and solution
    identifies a problem and proposes one or more solutions
  3. relationships
    the connections between two or more people or things
  4. main ideas
    what the text is mostly about
  5. cause and effect
    events and their outcomes
  6. inference
    infer means to make a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text
  7. scientific text
    texts that focus on explaining things related to science, like the natural world, experiments, or scientific discoveries
  8. point of view
    the specific perspective or position the author has on a topic
  9. historical text
    a piece of writing, document, or artifact that provides information about real people, places, and events from the past
  10. technical text
    explains something specific, like how something works or how to do something, often a structured format
  11. integrate
    putting together key details and evidence from sources in a way that supports your main idea
  12. compare and contrast
    analyzes the similarities and differences between ideas in a text
  13. key details
    facts and ideas that support the main idea
  14. reasons
    details that support the author’s particular points in a text
  15. informational text
    passages that explain or inform
  16. summarize
    to provide an overview of text that states main points but not all the details
  17. interactions
    how ideas influence individuals/events or how individuals influence ideas/events
  18. firsthand account
    description of events written or told by someone who was there
  19. order of importance
    organized from least to most important or from most to least important
  20. explicit ideas
    stated directly; author tells the readers exactly what they need to know
  21. secondhand account
    a description of events written or told by someone who was not there but got the story from another source
  22. chronological order
    he order in which a series of events happens; arranged in order of time
  23. evidence
    something that proves the truth of something else
  24. organization
    the way in which a piece of writing is structured