A 60-minute lesson in which students will identify the difference between a fact and an opinion.
Fact or Opinion?
60 mins
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Suitable for grades:
3 - 4
Tuning In
- Remind the students that the purpose of an informational text is to provide information about a particular topic using facts. Ask the students:
- What is the purpose of an informational text?
- What are some types of informational texts?
- How do informational texts differ from narrative texts?
- Watch the Fact or Opinion for Kids video on YouTube. After watching, ask the students:
- What is a fact?
- Where can we find facts?
- What is an opinion?
Teacher Instruction
- Project the Bat Facts and Opinions Worksheet on the board. Read each of the statements on the worksheet and ask the students to identify whether or not the statement is a fact or an opinion. Encourage the students to provide justification for their responses.
- Remind the students of the texts about owls from the previous lesson. Draw a picture of an owl on the board. Encourage the students to provide fact and opinion statements about owls. Write the facts inside of the owl and the opinions around it.
Guided/Independent Learning
- Project the Fact or Opinion? Digital Learning Activity on the board. As a class, work through the activities to explore the facts and opinions about space. Have volunteers come up to the computer to drag and drop the answers or to type responses into the text boxes provided.
Wrapping Up
- Play the I Have, Who Has? Fact and Opinion Game as a class. Provide each student with a card. The student that has the sentence 'I am the starter' begins the game by standing up and reading their card. The student with the matching fact or opinion stands up and reads their card. The game continues until the last person reads out 'I am the winner'.
Differentiation
Extending Students
- Encourage fast finishers to write another fact and opinion for each of the topics on the worksheet.
Supporting Students
- Allow any students who are finding the sorting activity challenging to work in a small group with a teacher or teacher aide.
Suggested Assessment Strategies
- used strategic whole class or individual questioning
- observed student participation during learning activities
- recorded student progress on a checklist
- annotated student work samples
- collected and reviewed student work samples
- facilitated whole class or peer feedback sessions
- encouraged student self-reflection
- administered formal assessment tasks.
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Curriculum
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2.B
Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.2.B
Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic.
ELAR 3.12(B)
Compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information about a topic, using a clear central idea and genre characteristics and craft;
ELAR 4.12(B)
Compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information about a topic, using a clear central idea and genre characteristics and craft;
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