Lessons & Units

Fact and Opinion 3rd Grade Unit

Lessons

Lesson 1 Facts and Opinions in a Variety of Genres Identify and describe facts and opinions in different genres of books.
Lesson 2 Distinguishing Facts from Opinions Identify and describe facts and opinions in different types of books.
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Lesson 3 Proving Facts and Forming Opinions Locate and verify facts in nonfiction.Create and identify opinions based on facts from a text.
Time for Kids: Butterflies!
Time for Kids: Butterflies!

Unit Extension Ideas

  • Have students identify facts and opinions during Read Aloud Sessions, Independent Reading, and Literature Groups.
  • Have students discuss if they will find facts or opinions in a literature group book, based on genre.
  • Have students complete the “Fact or Opinion?” worksheet, identify if statements are facts or opinions, and explain their reasoning (See Additional Activity A Worksheet in Teacher and Student Materials below).
  • Have students complete the “Finding Nemo Fact or Opinion?” worksheet and identify if statements are facts or opinions and why (See Additional Activity B below).
  • Students can read the diary entry (See Additional Activity C below) and identify if the statements are facts or opinions and explain why.
  • Have students discuss how different genres of writing use facts and opinions. For example, nonfiction writing uses facts and persuasive writing uses facts that support an opinion.
  • Have students write a diary or journal entry. They can then exchange their writing with a partner. Have the partner identify which sentences are facts and which are opinions and explain why.
  • Students can write a letter to the editor of a newspaper about a current events topic or a topic they read about in the Concepts of Comprehension Reading Passages.
  • Students can write an opinion about a nonfiction Concepts of Comprehension©Passage and list some of the facts they learned in a graphic organizer. (See Additional Activity D below.)

Teacher and Student Materials

More Books for Teaching Fact and Opinion

Day of the Blizzard

Day of the Blizzard

Fountas and Pinnell
Q
Lexile
630L
The Memory Coat

The Memory Coat

Lexile
650L
Kit Saves the Day: A Summer Story: 1934

Kit Saves the Day: A Summer Story: 1934

Lexile
640L

Let's Drive, Henry Ford!

Lexile
700L
Walt Whitman: Words for America

Walt Whitman: Words for America

Lexile
970L
A to Z Mysteries: The White Wolf

A to Z Mysteries: The White Wolf

Fountas and Pinnell
N
Lexile
630L
Alan Apostrophe

Alan Apostrophe

Looking at Nigeria

Looking at Nigeria

Lexile
940L
Judge (Our Government Leaders)

Judge (Our Government Leaders)

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