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Read Works: Will You Go to School This Summer?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating the pros and cons of year-round school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Scholastic: Test Skill Builders for Reading: Making Judgments [Pdf]
Standardized test practice for students in grades 5 and 6. Students read a practice passage and answer questions that require them to make judgments about such things as fact or opinion and the author's purpose. Answers to the practice...
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Read Works: The Weight Debate
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating whether or not schools should send reports home about students' body mass index (BMI). A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: From Pet to Threat
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about problems caused by exotic pets like pythons and tigers. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: News Debate Tough Cell
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating whether or not students should be allowed to use cell phones in school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Tribal Tribute
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian, part of the Smithsonian Institution. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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Read Works: Coins!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about coins made in the U. S. Mint. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Right On
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a program called "Do Something About It" designed to teach kids about the Bill of Rights. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Nobel Work
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Nobel Prizes and prize winners in 2006. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Quia
Quia: Comprehension: Fact or Opinion Game #3
Read each sentence and determine whether it is a fact or an opinion in this thirty-question quiz.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Bombing of Hiroshima Fact or Opinion
Eleventh graders will read "A Noiseless Flash" from Hiroshima, written by John Hersey with a partner and record facts (objective reporting) and opinions (subjective reporting) as given in the reading selection.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Contemplation and Argumentation
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...
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Read Works: Growing Up Long Ago
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the typical life of a child during the 1800's. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Junk Food Battles
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the importance of eating nutritious foods. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Junk Food Ad Attack!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about companies marketing junk food to children. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Cutest Animal Finalists
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares the information about animals that students have voted as being "the cutest" in a Weekly Reader contest. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Differentiated Reading Instruction Worksheets, Activities
A collection of differentiated reading activities are provided in this collection. Worksheets for the following reading topics are included: climax, story structure, elements of a story; fact and opinion; summarizing, narrative sequence;...
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Read Works: Ancient Village at Stonehenge
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about an ancient village archeologists found near Stonehenge. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Nasa Stardust Review
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about NASA's probe, Stardust, which recently completed a seven-year journey to explore space and collect particles. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in...
University of Virginia Library
Prism: School Lunch
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read an essay by Erin Ruddy entitled "School Lunch," and highlight facts in blue and opinions in red.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Differentiate Between Substantiated and Unsubstantiated Opinions
[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.
Quia
Quia: Comprehension: Fact or Opinion? Game #2
Read each sentence and determine whether it is a fact or an opinion in this thirty-question quiz.
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Read Works: Nasa's Stardust Review
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the world problem of unsafe drinking water. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included....
CommonLit
Common Lit: "What Adolescents Miss by Grow Up in Cyberspace" by Brent Staples
In this informational text, Brent Staples explores how the Internet may be impacting teenagers' development. As you read, take notes on what teenagers use the Internet for and how it impacts their development. [Free account registration...