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Lesson 3: Proving Facts and Forming Opinions

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Time for Kids: Butterflies is used to model the process of determining if a text is based on fact or opinion. Children are taught how to skim for key words, and use headings or chapter names to locate proof of whether or not what they...
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E Reading Worksheets

Identifying Facts and Opinions

For Students 5th - 7th
Middle schoolers use a guided reading worksheet to demonstrate their ability to identify facts and opinions in a text. In addition, they use the text to create their own statements of fact and opinion.
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It's a Matter of Opinion

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
Dissect the parts of an advertisement with your class. Middle schoolers discuss advertisements and locate the hook in them. Then, they create an advertisement for a business, in which they include the name of the business, an...
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Is That a Fact?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students write examples of facts and opinions on the board. In groups, they develop their own definitions for facts and opinions and share with the class. In new groups, they complete a worksheet in which they place statements into the...
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Is That a Fact?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use physical activity to help them distinguish between facts and opinions. They are broken up into pairs and students give a fact or opinion (based on the call by the teacher) when the ball is bounced to them.
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E Reading Worksheets

Fact and Opinion - Worksheet: 6

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Practice discerning fact and opinion with a worksheet that contains 25 statements. Once learners determine if they are fact or opinion, they circle their answer and write a sentence explaining how they know.
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E Reading Worksheets

Fact and Opinion - Worksheet: 5

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
After reading 25 sentences, individuals decide if they are facts or opinions. Then, they explain their answer in a supporting sentence.
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Fact and Opinion - Worksheet: 1

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Pupils identify fact and opinion statements with a language arts worksheet. Then, they explain their thinking in a sentence, including the clues or set of words that helped them arrive at their answer.
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E Reading Worksheets

Fact and Opinion - Worksheet: 4

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Instruct pupils to determine if a statement is a fact or an opinion with a language arts worksheet. After reading the sentence and circling the answer, learners explain how they know their answer is correct.
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E Reading Worksheets

Fact and Opinion - Worksheet: 2

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
After reading a statement, learners decide if it is a fact or opinion. Then, they write a sentence explaining how they know their answer is correct. The sheet contains 25 fact and opinion sentences.
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Fact and Opinion Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th - 8th
How are fact and opinion different? Middle schoolers explore fact and opinion and write articles pertaining to a football match, eliminating all opinion statements in order to focus on the facts. Then they discuss bias in the media....
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Veterans Day Fact And Opinion

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this fact and opinion worksheet, students answer 10 questions about the Veterans Day holiday. Students decide if the statements given are facts or opinions.
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That Is Not My Opinion!

For Teachers 12th
Being an informed citizen requires distinguishing fact from opinion and understanding persuasion methods. Secondary learners evaluate newspaper editorials. They read opinion pieces, identify the writer's purpose and position on an issue,...
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The Inca Empire: Fact of Opinion

For Students 6th - 7th
Supplement a lesson on the Inca with this worksheet. Highlighted are 2 image documents which are analyzed to answer 5 fact or opinion questions. Pupils need to provide examples and evidence to support their answers.
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Author's Opinion

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students complete a worksheet.  In this author's opinion lesson, students learn how to determine an author's opinion when it is not explicitly stated in the text.  Students answer fact and opinion questions and use them to draw...
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Interactive
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Fact and Opinion Pre-Test

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this fact/opinion worksheet, students complete 10 multiple choice questions. Students may click on a link to view correct answers. 
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Identifying Fact and Opinion

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this fact/opinion worksheet, students read definitions of each, then determine whether a set of 20 statements are fact or opinion. An answer key is included.
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Fact and Opinion Project

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Explore fact and opinion in the newspaper with your high schoolers. they will read the newspaper and write down specific information they identify as fact and information that is an opinion.  Young scholars draw an art project to...
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Introduce: Fact and Opinion

For Teachers K - 4th
Build reading comprehension and critical-thinking skills as learners focus on discerning fact from opinion. First, introduce the two terms as you test prior knowledge and explain their meanings (there is a scripted explanation here for...
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Comparing and Contrasting: Fact vs. Opinion

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Elementary schoolers investigate nonfiction stories by analyzing facts and opinions. They read nonfiction stories about the Lewis and Clark expedition. Pupils utilize a T-chart to list the facts and opinions on opposite sides, and then...
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Fact and Opinion within the Media

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How can the media foster cultural misunderstandings? These activities encourage learners to distinguish between fact and opinion in the media
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DePaul University

Contrast and Evaluate Fact and Opinion

For Students 3rd Standards
Looking for a resource that helps learners practice identifying fact and opinion? A four-page instructional activity includes two informational text reading passages. Pupils read each passage and respond to four multiple choice and one...
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EngageNY

The Painted Essay for Opinion Writing: Writing Proof Paragraphs

For Teachers 5th Standards
It's time to proof read! Pupils read and analyze proof paragraphs from a model essay. They then practice writing their own proof paragraphs to express an opinion about offshore oil drilling. 
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Writing
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Protest Letter

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
What a fantastic resource to guide youngsters in persuasive letter writing. They read a brief letter to the editor and answer question about the author's purpose, word choice, and structure. Next, scholars draft their own letter by...

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