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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Fact and Opinion Lessons

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this learning module, students will learn more about the differences between facts and opinions. A PowerPoint presentation and related activity are provided to reinforce the topic of facts vs. opinions. This module is designed to...
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Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Fact and Opinion

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Designed to teach students to identify fact and opinion in a text. Lessons are based on the text "Dear Diary" and the book Penguins by Lynn M. Stone. Includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice,...
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Read Works

Read Works: Fourth Grade: Two Lesson Unit: Fact and Opinion

For Teachers 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-activity unit on fact and opinion through which students identify facts and opinions in a newspaper article and understand how facts support opinions in an editorial. With free login, users have...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Classify Facts and Opinions [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Students will find three lessons about facts and opinions in this learning module. The following topics are linked in the module: contrast and evaluate fact and opinion; classify facts and opinions; and locate and classify facts.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Is It What I Think or What I Know? (Fact or Opinion)

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
This short lesson provides a fairly simple way to teach young students the difference between fact and opinion.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Fact or Opinion Game [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a game where they move around a board by determining if statements are facts or opinions. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Matter of Fact or Opinion [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students work with a partner to write facts and opinions on different word cards. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Fact or Opinion Football [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a football card game by determining if sentences are facts or opinions. Materials are included.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Is It What I Think or What I Know? (Fact or Opinion)

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
This short lesson provides a fairly simple way to teach young learners the difference between fact and opinion.
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Read Works

Read Works: Fact/opinion Kindertarten Unit: Identifying Facts, Forming Opinions

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using Animal Smell by Kirsten Hall to teach students to find factual information inside informational texts and begiE3229:E3236n to form opinions based on information within the text. Includes...
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Read Works

Read Works: Fact and Opinion Kindergarten Unit: Opinion

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using Animal Touch by Kirsten Hall to teach students to form opinions based on information found within informational texts. Includes ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent...
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Read Works

Read Works: Fact and Opinion Kindergarten Unit: Fact

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using Animal Touch by Kirsten Hall to teach students to find factual information inside informational texts. Includes ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice. Although the...
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Read Works

Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 3: Identifying Facts and Forming Opinions

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students identify facts and form opinions using the book Animal Smell.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Differentiate Substantiated and Unsubstantiated Opinions in Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn to differentiate fact from opinion and to decide whether an opinion is substantiated or not.
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Read Works

Read Works: Fact and Opinion 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on fact and opinion through which students learn how to identify opinions through signal words, identify facts in a non-fiction text, and use facts to help them formulate opinions of...
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Read Works

Read Works: Fact and Opinion 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on fact and opinion through which students learn how to identify facts and opinions in different fiction genres. Students also use non-fiction texts to identify and verify facts and...
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Other

Grade 1 Informative Writing Lessons

For Teachers 1st Standards
Authored by the Tsehai Russell and Della Wright, CLR fellows, this resource provides a 5-day unit of informative writing lessons. Focus lessons related to facts and opinions and paragraph writing. This series is supported by the Academic...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Fact vs. Opinion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This instructional activity is a hands-on way for young scholars to learn how to discern between fact and opinion. This is an important skill for citizenship in that citizens should be informed about what is happening in their...
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Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Fact or Opinion?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students must learn to recognize the differences between fact and opinion.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Newspapers: Facts and Opinions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In order to sharpen a student's understanding of the differences between facts and opinions, this lesson plan incorporates both the close reading of a newspaper and the writing of a factual article and a letter to the editor.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Identifying and Writing Opinions About Clouds Using Clue Words

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
It is important to teach students the difference between facts and opinions. This is the groundwork for getting students to think critically when analyzing a piece of text. This lesson will help to lay the foundation for opinion writing....
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Facts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on facts; they are true, verifiable, and identical across sources. General facts, commonly accepted, do not need citations; specific facts: statistics, expert testimony, and anecdote do require citation.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Science Fact or Opinion?

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Presents the relationships of facts, explanations, and opinions in science.
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Read Works

Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 2: Fact

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students identify and describe facts using the book Animal Touch.