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Contrast and Evaluate Fact and Opinion WorksheetContrast and Evaluate Fact and Opinion Worksheet
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DePaul University
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Contrast and Evaluate Fact and Opinion

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Looking for a resource that helps learners practice identifying fact and opinion? A four-page worksheet includes two informational text reading passages. Pupils read each passage and respond to four multiple choice and one short answer question that focuses on fact and opinion.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

fact and opinion, natural gas, reading comprehension, ghana, informational texts

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Instruct learners to highlight their answers within the text to show their understanding of the answer they chose

Classroom Considerations

  • Worksheet suggests putting class members in pairs to complete the exercises
  • The topic of the first passage is natural gas, and the topic of the second passage is about Ghana

Pros

  • Contains two reading passages with 10 questions and an answer key

Cons

  • Answer key is at the bottom of each sheet; remove or white-out the key before distributing to student groups

Common Core

RI.3.1

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