Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Fact or Opinion?
In this lesson, students must learn to recognize the differences between fact and opinion.
Other
Do History: Using Primary Sources
This site explains the difference between a primary and secondary source. It also provides students with questions to ask when gathering evidence about a primary source document.
Library and Archives Canada
Nlc: Defining Primary and Secondary Sources
Libraries and archives hold documents and books that can be used for your research projects. Learn how to divide and identify them into primary and secondary sources in this tutorial.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Research Building Blocks: "Cite Those Sources!"
Contains plans for two lessons about the research process. Students discuss plagiarism, practice paraphrasing, and cite sources. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites used in the...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Is It What I Think or What I Know? (Fact or Opinion)
This short lesson provides a fairly simple way to teach young students the difference between fact and opinion.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Fact and Opinion Worksheets
Fact and opinion practice exercises, answer sheets, and explanation summaries are included on this tutorial site. Worksheets are tiered in levels of difficulty.
Other
Flickr: Critical Thinking Skills Poster
A downloadable critical thinking skills poster based on the original six levels of Bloom's taxonomy.
TES Global
Tes: Writing Task Sheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource includes a collection of ten different task sheets for independent work on particular writing skills. Each worksheet provides practice for one aspect that will help improve student writing.
TES Global
Tes: Assessing Pupil Progress in English: Writing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint provides exemplar pieces to guide students to understand how to revise a standardized, on-demand writing assessment piece.
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Awesome Library
Awesome Library's searchable database is full of resources in all subject areas. It also provides information to parents, students, teachers, principal, family, and community.
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Thoughtful Learning: Minilesson: Asking and Answering the 5 W's and H Questions
Students will learn the "5 W's and H questions" needed to comprehend a news story. Then students will apply these question words [who, what, where, why, when, and how] to real news stories and to events in their own lives.
Read Works
Read Works: Lights Out
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining what to do when the power goes out. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Sticky Fingers, Helping Hands
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about chocolate, where it comes from, and how it is made. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: The Roots of Southern Food
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Southern food and how it has evolved throughout time. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: The Scientific Method
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage lists steps in the scientific method. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Several...
Read Works
Read Works: Fuels of the Future
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about renewable energy sources that may replace fossil fuel in the future. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.
Read Works
Read Works: Green Machines
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about low-cost laptop computers improving education for children in need around the world. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
Read Works
Read Works: Right On
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a program called "Do Something About It" designed to teach kids about the Bill of Rights. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Seven Billion and Counting
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the increasing world population. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: The Scientific Method
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining the five steps of the scientific method. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose: Reading Test 2
A ten-question quiz on identifying whether an author's purpose is to persuade, inform, or entertain the reader. Students are asked to type an explanation for each answer. Results can be printed, saved, or emailed.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose: Reading Test 3
A ten-question quiz on identifying whether an author's purpose is to persuade, inform, or entertain the reader. Students are asked to type an explanation for each answer. Results can be printed, saved, or emailed.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Fact and Opinion: Reading Test 3
A 25-question quiz where students must identify statements as fact or opinion. Results can be printed, saved, or emailed.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: How to Choose Credible Sources
This tutorial focuses on choosing credible sources for a research project. It offers two versions of a slideshow: a non-audio slideshow and an audio slideshow which explains the information as it is shown. They each define terms, offer...