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I Can Classify Facts and Opinions OrganizerI Can Classify Facts and Opinions Organizer
Publisher
Polk Bros Foundation
Resource Details
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Grade
6th - 10th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Types
Printables & Templates
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Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
15 mins
Instructional Strategy
Independent Practice
Year
2008
Organizer

I Can Classify Facts and Opinions

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Telling fact from opinion can be tricky. Direct your class to practice their reading and comprehension skills by taking notes on the facts and opinions in a text. Pupils fill out a two-column chart and write down how they know a statement is fact or opinion.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

textual evidence, evidence, fact and opinion, opinions, inferences

Additional Tags

fact and opinion, inference, textual evidence, english language arts

Pros

  • See the materials tab for a reference page that you can use to support this organizer
  • Resource can be used with any text

Cons

  • The page is basic and students may benefit from additional scaffolding or direction

Common Core

RI.6.1 RI.7.1 RI.8.1 RI.9-10.1

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