Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Differentiate Between Substantiated and Unsubstantiated Opinions
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn to differentiate fact from opinion and to decide whether an opinion is substantiated or not. These are important reading and writing skills.
Read Works
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Supporting Details Explained
This slideshow focuses on supporting details; it discusses their purpose, the audience, and the point to be made. It lists the five most common types of supporting details: facts, statistics, opinions, examples, and personal observations...
Read Works
Read Works: Fact and Opinion 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-instructional activity 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...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Unit: Reading Comprehension and Structure
This unit focuses on reading comprehension and structure. It includes lessons on the main idea and supporting details, theme, sequence, fact and opinion, literary devices, character, text features, inferences, organization of nonfiction,...
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Grade 1 Informative Writing Lessons
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...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Fact and Opinion Lessons
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...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: My Sound Is the Best! [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will use music as an impetus for stating and supporting opinions. They will compose an opinion poster based on a narrative about a train using percussion instruments. This will involve group work which can lead...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Natural Gas: An Energy Resource [Pdf]
"Natural Gas: An Energy Resource" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about how natural gas is located, drilled for, and sent through pipelines throughout the country to people's homes. It is followed by questions which require...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Finding the Author's Purpose
What is autism? How does it affect behavior? Learners will find evidence of the author's tone or purpose for writing the article, as well as hints that show evidence of opinion. Includes a video clip from the movie "Rainman", and an...
Childnet
Childnet: Online Safety: Safer Internet Day
Safer Internet Day 2021 will be celebrated in the UK with the theme: An internet we trust: exploring reliability in the online world. The campaign focuses on how we can decide what to trust online, supporting young people to question,...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Types of Details: Flashcards
This is a set of interactive flashcards defining words that have to do with details in writing: supporting details, facts, opinion, examples, anecdotes, and statistics.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Types of Details: Test
This interactive quiz features six multiple-choice questions about types of details and their definitions.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Critical Reading as a Learning Strategy
This tutorial focuses on critical reading using a downloadable PowerPoint presentation, "Critical Reading 101," which includes separating fact from opinion, 6 propaganda techniques, and 6 common fallacies in reasoning. Also provided is...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Persuasion Map
A printable graphic organizer for students to use when writing on opinion or persuasive essay. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas, lesson plans, and other resources are also...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Types of Details: Match
In this interactive game, students match the words having to do with types of details to their definitions.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Types of Details: Learn
In this interactive focusing on learning types of details, students type in the word to match the definition given.