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Fact or Opinion

Help your ELs learn to understand and differentiate between fact and opinion through the analysis of nonfiction text. This can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the Fact or Opinion: Part 1 lesson plan.
This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Fact or Opinion: Part 1 lesson plan.
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This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Fact or Opinion: Part 1 lesson plan.

Objectives

Academic

Students will be able to identify facts and opinions.

Language
  • Students will be able to find facts and opinions in a nonfiction text.
  • Students will be able to use new vocabulary words using sentence frames.

Introduction

(2 minutes)
  • Project and complete the Frayer Model worksheet for the word fact, and check student comprehension throughout by asking students to orally repeat the definition or provide examples.
  • Tell students that today they will analyze sentences to help them understand how to find the difference between facts and opinions.