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Fact and Opinion Kindergarten Unit

Lessons

Lesson 1 Opinion Form an opinion.

Animal Touch

Lesson 2 Fact Identify and describe facts.

Animal Touch

Lesson 3 Identifying Facts and Forming Opinions Identify facts and form opinions from a text.

Animal Smell

Unit Extension Ideas

Have students identify facts during read aloud sessions, shared reading, and guided reading by using the pictures and text.

Have students discuss what they liked or did not like about the stories they read in reading groups. Discuss why these statements are opinions.

Have students discuss their favorite part of a story or if they would be friends with the main character. Explain that these are opinions.

After reading a story aloud, have students discuss whether the story is factual or made up. Chart their responses on chart paper and create two lists: characteristics of factual books and characteristics of fictional books.

In Shared Writing, rewrite some stories to include facts and opinions or rephrase a sentence to include the sentence starters “I think…,” “I feel…,” “I like…,” or “I learned…”

Make a class fact and opinion book. Give each student a page for the book and have them write facts on one side and their opinions about those facts on the other side of the page.

Students can create a Fact and Opinion bookmark about any social studies, history, or science unit of study. (See Additional Activity A in Teacher and Student Materials below.)

Identify facts during social studies, history, and science. Have students form opinions about what they are learning.

Teacher and Student Materials Get All

More Books for Teaching Fact and Opinion

A Day with Firefighters

Fountas and Pinnell: H
Lexile: BR

Before reading this book aloud, photocopy some of the pictures in the book as well as some pictures from other books. Read the title aloud and show students the pictures. Have them use the pictures to determine which pictures will be in the book and what the book will mostly be about.