Facts and Opinions - Weekly Language Lessons - Intermediate Grades

We focus on one topic each week during our language arts lessons. This pack provides activities to do each day of the week as students learn about the topic. We glue all of these pages into our language notebooks (which are spiral notebooks) each week. I reduce the pages 85% when I copy them.

Day One:

We begin by reading a picture book. We use the book Facts vs. Opinions vs. Robots by Michael Rex. You can buy the book OR watch it read aloud on youtube.

Reading (or listening) to the book gives kids an idea of what we are going to be talking about this week – facts and opinions! Fill in the sheet based on the fact and opinions in the picture book.

Day Two:

Share the facts and opinions posters with the students. Have them come up with a definition for both facts and opinions in their own words and fill in some examples of each on the chart with their own definitions.

Day Three:

Play a game with a partner about facts and opinions! Cut out the sentence strips and fold each one in half. One person takes the Facts sheet and one person takes the Opinions sheet. Each person takes turns drawing a random strip, students can only glue the strip if it matches their sheet (Fact or Opinion). If it does not match their sheet, they put it back in the pile of folded strips.

Day Four:

Use fact and opinions in writing! There is a fill in the blank information sheet about an animal to do first! Then have students write their own information about the animal of their choice in a poster format (on a 9 x 12 or 12 x 18 sheet of white construction paper) trying to use at least 10 facts and opinions about the topic of their choice. Kids can illustrate their writing, too! We write the facts on one color and the opinions in another color in the story poster. These are also posted up in the classroom so kids can read the other stories. We bind them together in a class book later. There are several sheets to choose from for their writing.

Day Five:

Give students a quiz using facts and opinions. As an enrichment piece we talk about really unusual or strange things about different animals. I give students time to find some unusual facts about animals using the Internet and then let them make a mini-poster showing some different examples of these unusual facts!

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