the reasonan authorhas forwriting apiece of textauthor'spurposethe way inwhich apiece ofwriting isstructuredorganizationeventsand theiroutcomescauseandeffectthe specificperspective orposition theauthor has ona topicpointof viewexplainssomethingspecific, like howsomething worksor how to dosomething, often astructured formattechnicaltextdescription ofevents writtenor told bysomeone whowas therefirsthandaccountinfer means tomake areasonableconclusion basedon evidencefound in the textinferencesomethingthat provesthe truth ofsomethingelseevidenceputting togetherkey details andevidence fromsources in a waythat supportsyour main idea integratehe order inwhich a seriesof eventshappens;arranged inorder of timechronologicalorderidentifies aproblem andproposesone or moresolutionsproblemandsolutionstated directly;author tells thereaders exactlywhat they needto knowexplicitideastexts that focus onexplaining thingsrelated to science,like the naturalworld, experiments,or scientificdiscoveriesscientifictexta description ofevents written ortold by someonewho was not therebut got the storyfrom anothersource secondhandaccountpassagesthatexplain orinforminformationaltextanalyzes thesimilarities anddifferencesbetween ideasin a textcompareandcontrastto provide anoverview of textthat states mainpoints but notall the detailssummarizea piece of writing,document, or artifactthat providesinformation aboutreal people, places,and events from thepasthistoricaltextorganized fromleast to mostimportant orfrom most toleast importantorder ofimportancefacts andideas thatsupport themain ideakeydetailsdetails thatsupport theauthor’sparticularpoints in a textreasonswhat thetext ismostlyaboutmainideastheconnectionsbetween twoor more peopleor thingsrelationshipshow ideasinfluenceindividuals/eventsor how individualsinfluenceideas/eventsinteractionsthe reasonan authorhas forwriting apiece of textauthor'spurposethe way inwhich apiece ofwriting isstructuredorganizationeventsand theiroutcomescauseandeffectthe specificperspective orposition theauthor has ona topicpointof viewexplainssomethingspecific, like howsomething worksor how to dosomething, often astructured formattechnicaltextdescription ofevents writtenor told bysomeone whowas therefirsthandaccountinfer means tomake areasonableconclusion basedon evidencefound in the textinferencesomethingthat provesthe truth ofsomethingelseevidenceputting togetherkey details andevidence fromsources in a waythat supportsyour main idea integratehe order inwhich a seriesof eventshappens;arranged inorder of timechronologicalorderidentifies aproblem andproposesone or moresolutionsproblemandsolutionstated directly;author tells thereaders exactlywhat they needto knowexplicitideastexts that focus onexplaining thingsrelated to science,like the naturalworld, experiments,or scientificdiscoveriesscientifictexta description ofevents written ortold by someonewho was not therebut got the storyfrom anothersource secondhandaccountpassagesthatexplain orinforminformationaltextanalyzes thesimilarities anddifferencesbetween ideasin a textcompareandcontrastto provide anoverview of textthat states mainpoints but notall the detailssummarizea piece of writing,document, or artifactthat providesinformation aboutreal people, places,and events from thepasthistoricaltextorganized fromleast to mostimportant orfrom most toleast importantorder ofimportancefacts andideas thatsupport themain ideakeydetailsdetails thatsupport theauthor’sparticularpoints in a textreasonswhat thetext ismostlyaboutmainideastheconnectionsbetween twoor more peopleor thingsrelationshipshow ideasinfluenceindividuals/eventsor how individualsinfluenceideas/eventsinteractions

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