(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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Voice (Who)
Summary
Theme
The big idea, lesson, or message the author wants you to learn from the story.
Compare/Contrast
When the text talks about similarities and differences between people, places, things and events.
Rising Action
Direct/Explicit
Stanza
A group of lines in a poem, like a paragraph in a story.
It helps organize ideas and creates rhythm in poetry.
Central Idea/ Main Idea
The big point or main message that the author wants you to understand.
Cause/Effect
Turning point
Transition Words
Thesis
Point of view
Genre
The type or category of a story or text.
It tells you what kind of story you are reading or what to expect.
Direct/Explicit
Something is clearly stated in the text — it’s right there, easy to find, with no guessing needed.
Vocabulary Words
Words or phrases that helps the reader understand unfamiliar/complex subjects.
Turning Point
The moment in a story when the main problem/conflict reaches its most intense point and the story starts to change direction.
Theme
Main Idea/ Central Idea
Rising Action
Part of the story where the conflict starts and builds up. It includes events that lead up to the most exciting part (the climax)
Climax
Tone (Sound)
Setting
Infer
Tone (Sound)
The author’s attitude or feeling about the topic or story.
It’s how the author sounds through their words.
Voice (who)
the style that comes through in a writer’s words.
It’s how you can tell who is speaking by the way they express themselves.
Genre
Conclusion
Characterization
Stanza
Mood
The feeling or atmosphere that a reader gets from a story or text.
(How the author wants you to feel while you read.)
Setting
Where and when a story happens — the place, time, and environment of the story.
Climax
The part of a story where the main conflict reaches its highest intensity and something big happens.
Characterization
How the author shows what characters are like (direct or indirect)
Indirect/Implicit
Problem and soloution
When the text gives information about a problem and explains the solution.
Thesis
Main idea or point of an essay or story.
Summary
a short retelling of the most important parts of a story .
(what happened but leaves out small details and opinions.)
Mood
Infer
To figure out something that the author doesn’t say directly by using clues from the text and what you already know.
Cause and effect
When the text describes an effect (Cause) and the effects that follow.
Compare/Contrast
Conclusion
A decision or opinion you come to after reading and thinking about the story or text.
Vocabulary Words
Transition Words
Words or phrases that connect ideas and help your writing flow smoothly.
Problem and solution
Indirect/Implicit
Something is not stated clearly or directly — you have to figure it out using clues.
Point of view
The way a story is told — who is telling the story and how they see what happens.
