Fact and Opinion Activities Reading Comprehension Centers
Are you looking for a fun, highly engaging, and effective way to teach fact and opinion? These activities teach students to distinguish between fact and opinion by becoming observant text detectives.
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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?
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Fact Detectives Reading Centers
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Fact vs Opinion Sort
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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
Get more ideas for teaching this skill: Fact and Opinion Activities Your Students Will Love
Additional information
| Grade Level | 2nd, 3rd |
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| Pages | 51 |
| Resource Type | Activity, Literacy Centers |
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Edith Suber –
I was planning to have my student do one case a week until the end of the school year, he wants to do them all now. So glad that he’s excited about doing something that included reading and writing. I even had a great time solving them. So fun!
Brandi K. –
Great, easy to use resource. Students enjoyed it and I appreciated the idea!
Magdalena A. –
It is a great activity to help the students master the difference between fact and opinion. We would do 1 a day and they would be completely engaged with the class discussions on who did it and why
Jennifer D. –
This is such a fantastic resource – we have so much fun using this and the students are totally involved!
Krystina O. –
My students were so engaged with this resource! It was wonderful to see them actively participating and enjoying the activities. I also appreciated not having to spend extra time prepping—everything was ready to go, which made my life so much easier. This was a fantastic resource, and I’ll definitely be using it again