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.

Concepts

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

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Additional Tags

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

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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