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Read Works: From Pet to Threat
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about problems caused by exotic pets like pythons and tigers. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Nasa Stardust Review
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about NASA's probe, Stardust, which recently completed a seven-year journey to explore space and collect particles. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in...
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Read Works: Nasa's Stardust Review
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the world problem of unsafe drinking water. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included....
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Read Works: News Debate Tough Cell
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating whether or not students should be allowed to use cell phones in school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Will You Go to School This Summer?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating the pros and cons of year-round school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Fashion Do or Don't
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage expresses the pros and cons of school uniforms. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
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Read Works: The Sinking City
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about an idea that might keep the city of Venice, Italy from sinking. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: On Hallowed Ground
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about several Civil War sites that are slowly disappearing due to modern industry. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Tribal Tribute
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian, part of the Smithsonian Institution. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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Read Works: Ancient Village at Stonehenge
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about an ancient village archeologists found near Stonehenge. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Coins!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about coins made in the U. S. Mint. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Facts
This lesson clarifies what writers mean when using the term "facts." This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Fact and Opinion
[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: Fourth Grade: Two Lesson Unit: Fact and Opinion
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson 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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Read Works: Fact/opinion Kindertarten Unit: Identifying Facts, Forming Opinions
[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: Fact and Opinion Kindergarten Unit: Fact
[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: Fact and Opinion Kindergarten Unit: Opinion
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan 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...
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.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Test Skill Builders for Reading: Making Judgments [Pdf]
Standardized test practice for students in grades 5 and 6. Students read a practice passage and answer questions that require them to make judgments about such things as fact or opinion and the author's purpose. Answers to the practice...
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Fact or Opinion
As part of the BBC's Skillswise unit, this resource covers the basics of separating fact from opinion through a worksheet, a factsheet, and a quiz.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Matter of Fact or Opinion [Pdf]
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: Text Analysis: Fact or Opinion Game [Pdf]
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: Text Analysis: Fact or Opinion Football [Pdf]
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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Read Works: You're Out
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a new baseball field designed to help parents be good sports during the games. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.