How can opinions slant facts? Workshop participants learn how to examine primary and secondary sources and identify the author's point of view. They also examine how visual art impacts the meaning and rhetoric of sources. Full of...

You'll C-E-R a difference in classroom achievement after using a helpful lesson. Designed for economics, civics, government, and US history classes, participants practice using the CER model to craft arguments about primary and secondary...

In this lesson, you will learn how to identify and discuss the use of facts, personal examples, and ideas and how they are woven into a literary essay.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn to differentiate fact from opinion and to decide whether an opinion is substantiated or not.

Students will plan a paragraph that states their opinion and cites evidence to justify their opinion about an informational text. This instructional activity uses biographies since students can easily be able to write down factual...

This is a PDF entitled "Distinguishing between Matters of Fact, Matters of Opinion, and Matters of Reasoned Judgement," which focuses on how to separate fact from opinion, provides examples, and offers a practice activity.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students identify facts and form opinions using the book Animal Smell.

As part of the BBC's Skillswise unit, this resource covers the basics of separating fact from opinion through a worksheet, a factsheet, and a quiz.

Learn about distinguishing fact from opinion and then practice this skill with a seven-question assessment.

Analysis of The Real Pocahontas shows how to distinguish between fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment. Provides a practice activity.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn to differentiate fact from opinion and to decide whether an opinion is substantiated or not. These are important reading and writing skills.

It is important to teach young scholars the difference between facts and opinions. This is the groundwork for getting students to think critically when analyzing a piece of text. This activity will help to lay the foundation for opinion...

This slideshow lesson focuses on facts; they are true, verifiable, and identical across sources. General facts, commonly accepted, do not need citations; specific facts: statistics, expert testimony, and anecdote do require citation.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students learn about scientific explanations and interpretations through instructional videos, grade-level texts, interactive activities, and quick assessments.

Fact and opinion practice exercises, answer sheets, and explanation summaries are included on this tutorial site. Worksheets are tiered in levels of difficulty.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Designed to teach students to identify fact and opinion in a text. Lessons are based on the text "Dear Diary" and the book Penguins by Lynn M. Stone. Includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice,...

Learn how to think critically by distinguishing between facts, opinions, and reasoned judgments. Practice exercise included.

Students will find three lessons about facts and opinions in this learning module. The following topics are linked in the module: contrast and evaluate fact and opinion; classify facts and opinions; and locate and classify facts.

A lesson plan in which young scholars play a game where they move around a board by determining if statements are facts or opinions. Materials are included.

A lesson plan in which students work with a partner to write facts and opinions on different word cards. Materials are included.

In this activity provided by SMART, students will learn and practice separating fact from opinion.

This site provides a poster that will guide students as they contrast and evaluate facts and opinions. Guiding questions and student prompts are provided.

This short lesson provides a fairly simple way to teach young students the difference between fact and opinion.

In this self-guided unit, you will read Romantic and Transcendental literature and you will practice the art of persuasion using rhetorical devices, appeals, and refutation while avoiding logical fallacies. By the end of the unit, you...