Literary Terms and Reading Strategies Bingo Cards
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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.
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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