Fact and Opinion Activities Reading Comprehension Centers

Fact and Opinion Activities

Are you looking for a fun, highly engaging, and EFFECTIVE way to teach fact and opinion? This set of activities will teach your students how to distinguish between fact and opinion by becoming observant text detectives. You can even use it as the basis for a room transformation!

What Fact and Opinion Activities Are Included?

Fact Detectives Reading Centers
Fact vs Opinion Sort
Assessment

SOLVE THE CRIME FACT DETECTIVES

This activity is super engaging for students! They will read each storyline along with the witness statements to determine which clues are facts and which are just opinions.

Next, students record the clues in their detective notebook and compare them to the suspect cards to determine who the culprit is. If students successfully weed out the opinions, the case will be solved!

Includes:

• 8 different cases to solve

• Top Secret Case Files

• Storylines

• Witness Statements

• Suspect Cards

• Detective’s Notebook

• Fact Finder Detective Badges

The Detective’s Notebook page has also been prepared for digital use in Easel. You can assign a case via your online learning platform and students can fill out their notebook page online as well.

SORTING ACTIVITY

This activity is a sorting task for your literacy centers. Students read each statement and then sort by whether it is fact or opinion.

Includes:

• 30 Statement Cards

• Heading Cards

• Instructions

ASSESSMENT

This is a 10-item quiz or worksheet. Students read each statement and determine if it is a fact or an opinion. Includes answer key.

🖨️ No color printing? No problem! Most pages are also provided in a black-and-white version.

These activities are very motivating for young learners!

❤️ “My students loved this so much that they asked to take a copy home!! That never happens! Thank you for providing such a fun learning activity for my students.” – Jenee

❤️ “My second grade students were overly excited. They all wanted to stay in at recess to continue working on the various cases. For added effect, I made a policeman’s hat out of construction paper for each student. We had a blast!” – Buyer

❤️ “The previous reviews were absolutely right! I had my kids BEGGING me for more!! Such a fun, engaging way to teach about fact and opinion – thank you!” – Molly

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