Prestwick House
Understanding Language: Slant, Spin, and Bias in the News
We live in a time of fake news, alternative realities, and media bias. What could be more timely than an activity that asks class members to research how different sources report the same topic in the news?
National Center for Families Learning
Hidden Flags
Scholars scour a city landscape to locate twenty-five hidden flags. After each discovery, the narrator offers a piece of information about the American symbol. When all flags are found, a fireworks display appears in celebration of a job...
Curated OER
The Presidents of the USA
Get an in-depth look into each of our United States presidents with an interactive website that offers details from their date of birth, to their presidetial legacy, and everything in between.
Curriculum Corner
Informational Text Graphic Organizers
Analyze informational text with a set of three worksheets that focus on the main idea and supporting details, and reinforces note taking skills, and the use of context clues to define new words.
Curriculum Corner
Informational Text Graphic Organizers
Examine informational text with a three-page worksheet that focuses on taking notes, identifying the main idea, and locating supporting details in order to form a summary paragraph.
Worksheet Web
Language – Debating
Having a debate doesn't mean you're fighting. Introduce middle schoolers to debate with a resource which distinguishes between an quarrel and a debate, describes the debate process and format, and presents some possible debate topics.
Museum of the Moving Image
Evaluating Information: Focus on the 2008 Election
Just how true is the information contained in political ads? Determining the veracity of campaign ads from the 2008 presidential race is the focus of a lesson that introduces class members to several fact-checking resources.
Civil War Trust
Civil War Play
Raise the curtain to a class play that depicts the Civil War through both factual information and literary devices. The performance showcases the Battle of Antietam (Battle of Sharpsburg) and brings attention to women's roles, as well as...
Curated OER
Natural Gas: An American Treasure
Do your fourth graders need extra practice with evaluating fact and opinion? An informative resource provides two reading passages in which learners distinguish sentences as fact or as opinion. Additionally, they determine how the...
Ed Worksheets
Read the Story
Want to boost your readers' comprehension skills and strategies? Look to these five pages, each with a short story and questions to answer covering main idea, facts, sequence of events, context clues, conclusions, and making inferences.
Student Handouts
Five Amazing Facts About...
What are five amazing facts about you? Your best friend? Butterflies? The United States? The possibilities are endless with this worksheet!
Florida Center for Reading Research
Fact Versus Opinion
Is that a fact or an opinion? Learners explore the difference using this pocket chart activity during which partners read statement cards and determine whether they are facts or opinions.
Michigan State University
Wanted Dead or Alive
Wanted! Pests are on the loose! Here, class members create a wanted poster highlighting one pest. Posters includes a picture, description, and signs of pest activity.
E Reading Worksheets
Identifying Facts and Opinions
Middle schoolers use a guided reading learning exercise 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.
Curriculum Corner
Nonfiction Organizer
Have your learners take some notes on any nonfiction book with this straightforward worksheet. Kids note down the title, author, topic, and a few facts they learned along with a personal opinion of the text.
Simply Worksheets
Random Facts 2
In this random facts worksheet, students answer true or false questions about items such as chewing gum, coconuts, yo-yos, and more. Students complete 8 problems.
Simply Worksheets
Random Facts 1
For this random facts learning exercise, students complete short answer, multiple choice, and more questions about random facts about slugs, choking, and more. Students complete 8 questions.
Curated OER
Silly Bear Story
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students will read and evaluate a passage about bears and answer five true or false questions and determine whether the passage is fact or fiction. Students will then evaluate the passage and...
Curated OER
Fact or Fantasy
For this fact and fantasy worksheet, students write some true and false statements about their summer activities. Students write 8 statements.
Curated OER
Fact or Fiction
In this fact or fiction activity, students read 10 sentences and decide if it is a fact or fiction. Students check the correct column for each answer.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Different Kind of Fuel
In this segment from Curious, learn about creating energy from solar rays to meet the growing energy needs of the world. [6:09]
abcteach
Abcteach: Biography Research Form [Pdf]
Good printable worksheet that helps learners complete biographical research.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: The Facts Please, Mr. Mumble
This interactive web lesson teaches students about two-dimensional shape attributes.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Scientific Explanations and Interpretations
[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.