Lessons & Units :: Fact and Opinion Kindergarten Unit

Lesson 2: Fact

Lesson Plan

Animal Touch

Animal Touch
Learning Goal
Identify and describe facts.
Duration
Approximately 50 minutes
Necessary Materials
Provided: Independent Practice Worksheet
Not Provided: Animal Touch by Kirsten Hall

  • Teacher Modeling

    will introduce the definition of a fact and explain how it differs from an opinion. I will explain that facts are ideas that can be proven true and that nobody can disagree with. I will tell the students: “I think that skunks are cute, but ____ disagreed with me. This is not a fact. If I say that elephants are animals, can anyone disagree with me and still be telling the truth? No, so it is a fact.” I will provide more examples of facts and opinions so students see the difference between these two concepts. I will reread Animal Touch and model how to identify facts by discussing what I learned from the book, rather than what I think. I will identify one fact that I learned on pages 7, 8 and 9. I will point out that since I learned this information from a book and nobody can disagree with the statement, it is a fact.

  • Think Check

    Ask: "How did I decide if the information in the book was a fact?" Students should respond that you thought about whether the information can be proven as true and whether or not it can be argued.

  • Guided Practice

    will identify one fact we learned on each page, stopping at page 15. We will discuss why these statements are facts and not opinions.

    TIP: Chart the facts identified during the Guided Practice so that students can use them as a reference when completing the Independent Practice.

  • Independent Practice

    will use the sentence starter “I learned…” to identify one fact about polar bears from page 16. (Independent Practice Worksheet is provided.)

Build Student Vocabulary information

Tier 2 Word: information
Contextualize the word as it is used in the story “Nerves in our skin carry information about what we touch to our brains.”
Explain the meaning student-friendly definition) Information is a collection of facts. When nerves in our skin carry information about what we touch to our brains, they are telling our brain what we touched.
Students repeat the word Say the word information with me: information.
Teacher gives examples of the word in other contexts I learned a lot of information about dogs when I read a book about pets. The newspaper has a lot of useful facts or information.
Students provide examples What is some information that you can share? Start by saying, “I’d like to share information about _____________________.”
Students repeat the word again. What word are we talking about? information
Additional Vocabulary Words greet, objects

Build Student Background Knowledge

Pause at page 13 in Animal Touch. Explain that when the author said the monkeys were cleaning up each other's fur, the author meant that they were picking off fleas and other small bugs buried beneath their hair. After they are clean, the monkeys eat the fleas.

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Submitted by sgaffney_1692577 on 11/19/15