[jugglingit]

Does anyone have any creative ideas for teaching fact and opinion?

[coyotes]

I have students practice fact and opinions in a center. I preprogram cards with facts and opinions for them to sort. When they come to small group with me we go over their lists. If they chose fact I ask them to tell me how they can prove that itis a fact. If opinion I ask who might think differently than the statement on the card.

[Peg2teach]

After students have had fact/opinion instruction, I have my students pair up. Each pair is assigned a section of whatever reading passage we're working with. As they reread, one partner is searching for facts, the other for opinions. When they find one, they write it down on a strip of paper. The partners confer with each other on their selections -to confirm or rethink. After that, there are a few choices (for example):
- have partners come up, one at a time, and read their facts/opinions; confirm with class,
and use strips to build a graphic organizer
-"fact" students meet as a group, and "opinion" students meet as a group to dicuss their
choices, eliminate any that do not fit and build their portion of the graphic organizer -
discuss whole group
-students mingle, meet with a classmate who is not their partner, read each other's
sentence and tell whether it is a fact or opinion, repeat for a couple minutes; save strips
for fact/opinion quizzes and games

[jugglingit]

Thanks, these are great ideas.

[kevswife]

I use advertisements in magazines to help teach fact and opinion. I have a Promethean Board so I scan the images into the computer and put them on the screen for everyone to see. Then we can look and decide what things can be proven as facts on the ad and things that are opinions. Most of the ads I used were about food.