This document describes an activity to teach students to distinguish between facts and opinions. The activity involves students reading sentences and passages and identifying whether they contain a fact or opinion. If students state their answer as a question, the document provides feedback asking them to explain their reasoning or rephrase as a statement. The goal is to help students recognize the difference between objective facts versus subjective opinions.

1. Fact or Opinion
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Created by Carrie Ziolkowski, GALACTIC

2. Fact or Opinion
Grade 6
This activity addresses the
following Missouri
Standards:
• Distinguish between fact and
opinion (MO 1.6, 1.7)
• Recognize different viewpoints,
biases and propaganda (MO 1.6, 1.7)
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3. Fact or Opinion
Rules:
1. Read each sentence
or passage. Decide
whether it describes a
fact or an opinion.
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4. Fact or Opinion
Rules:
2. Raise your hand to
share your answer.
Continue...
Don’t forget to phrase
your answer as a

5. Fact or Opinion
Mark McGwire is the
greatest baseball
player who ever lived.
Fact
Opinion

6. Fact or Opinion
Being an astronaut is the
best job in the world. You
get to travel in outer
space and learn all about
astronomy.
Fact
Opinion

7. Fact or Opinion
A computer’s main job
is to process a great
deal of information on
a regular basis.
Fact
Opinion

8. Fact or Opinion
The United States is
the most effective
democracy in the
world.
Fact
Opinion

9. Fact or Opinion
Six billion people
inhabit our planet.
Fact
Opinion

10. Fact or Opinion
This answer is incorrect.
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11. Fact or Opinion
This answer is incorrect.
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12. Fact or Opinion
This answer is incorrect.
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13. Fact or Opinion
This answer is incorrect.
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14. Fact or Opinion
This answer is incorrect.
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15. Fact or Opinion
If you stated your
answer in the form of a
question, you are
Can you explain why this
statement is an opinion?
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16. Fact or Opinion
If you stated your
answer in the form of a
question, you are
Can you explain why this
statement is an opinion?
Next
?

17. Fact or Opinion
If you stated your
answer in the form of a
question, you are
Can you explain why this
statement is an opinion?
Next
?

18. Fact or Opinion
If you stated your
answer in the form of a
question, you are
Can you turn this fact
into an opinion?
Next
?

19. Fact or Opinion
If you stated your
answer in the form of a
question, you are
Can you turn this fact
into an opinion?
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Step
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20. Fact or Opinion
Going further…
In your journal:
• Write two facts.
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Activity
• Write two opinions
about these facts.