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Understanding Facts and Opinions: Differentiation and Activities for Enhanced Learning

This guide explores the distinction between facts and opinions, emphasizing their definitions and characteristics. A fact is a statement that can be verified, while an opinion is a subjective belief that may not be true. The document includes two interactive activities: one where pairs categorize resources as factual or opinion-based and a second where they analyze sentences to identify their components. It also highlights key indicators of opinions and emphasizes the importance of supporting opinions with facts for more informed conclusions.

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Understanding Facts and Opinions: Differentiation and Activities for Enhanced Learning

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  1. Fact and Opinion How do we differentiate between them?

  2. Definitions • A fact: A piece of information that is real and true. Its truth can be double checked. • An opinion: a belief , judgment or feeling that cannot be double checked; it may or may not be true.

  3. Activity 1: 5 minutes In pairs, list the following resources in the fact, opinion columns or both depending whether they contain facts or opinions: (Please look at the worksheets on your tables) Newspapers,dictionaries, atlases, encyclopedias, textbooks, biographies, autobiographies, self help books, almanacs,novels, magazines, websites

  4. can we find facts? Dictionaries Encyclopedias Almanacs Atlases Text books Newspapers and magazines Websites biographies can we find opinions? Self help books Autobiographies Novels Newspapers and magazines Websites biographies Where

  5. How do I know that what I am reading is an opinion?? Indicators of opinions are: • “Generally, it is thought …” • “I believe that …” • “It’s a sad day when …” • “I think …”

  6. Activity 2: 7 minutes • In pairs, read each piece of information carefully ( worksheet).Discuss whether it’s a fact or opinion . Write F for fact, and O for opinion. Give a valid reason for your answers.

  7. What makes a good opinion? A sentence may contain both a fact and an opinion such as: The house was renovated this year and that’s why it looks great. The first part of sentence is a fact. The second is an opinion. The fact supports the speaker’s opinion. A GOOD informed opinion is one that is supported by facts.

  8. Facts Opinions In pairs, list the following resources in the fact, opinion columns or both depending whether they contain facts or opinions: Newspapers, dictionaries, atlases, encyclopedias, textbooks, biographies, autobiographies, self help books, almanacs, novels, magazines and websites.

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