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These bingo cards feature 25 essential literary and reading-comprehension terms for Grade 4, including close reading, author's craft, character traits, mood, and persuasive techniques. The word list blends foundational vocabulary (simile, caption, timeline) with reading-strategy language (background knowledge, counterclaim). Use them for vocabulary review during reading units, test prep, or edit as a template for similar literature and language arts games.

Subject:
English / Language Arts
Topic:
Vocabulary
Grade Level:
4th Grade
Updated May 2026

Word List

  • Words at the top of the text that gives the topic of subject
  • Timeline
  • Writing that supports a claim with reasons and evidence
  • Poet
  • Close Reading
  • Instructions in a play not spoken by a character
  • A true story of a person’s life written by another person
  • Person to Society
  • Background Knowledge
  • Character Traits
  • Pieces of information that describes or supports
  • Why the author makes a claim
  • Text Features
  • Author’s Craft
  • Persuasive Techniques
  • Counterclaim
  • Mood
  • Caption
  • Repeated use of words or ideas to make a point
  • The events in a story
  • Events that develop the main conflict of a story
  • Simile
  • The use of words to create a picture in the reader’s mind
  • Informational Text
  • Text that often uses figurative language, rhythm, and rhyme

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