Fact & Opinion: Knowing the Difference is Vital
Does your child know the difference between a fact and an opinion?
Knowing the difference is a VITAL skill for the real world… and it’s usually part of grade-level requirements from about grade 3 onwards.
This skill is especially important if your learner is accessing information from the internet.
If you want your child to start thinking critically about the messages that bombard him or her on a daily basis – on the internet and in the real world – grab one or more of our resources and make this a priority for the next month or so. You’ll be impressed with the skills your child develops.
Here’s how we can help:
The focus of our ‘Fact or Opinion’ app is teaching kids how to identify whether a statement is a fact or opinion.
This vital skill is built incrementally.
Early levels focus on thinking about how to prove a fact/opinion and also how to identify the clue words that are indicative of a fact or opinion.
We teach learners that facts can be true or false.
Later levels include timers to ensure fluency.
The app includes more than 300 examples for extensive practice.
Our Fact or Opinion workbook builds this vital skill incrementally. Early pages focus on thinking about how to prove a fact/opinion and also how to identify the clue words that are indicative of a fact or an opinion. Later levels introduce the concept of false facts.
Our workbooks are designed for learners who are working below grade level.
Each workbook develops key skills in small, incremental steps that build success for struggling learners, such as those with ASD, ADHD and similar.
In this kit, you’ll find three styles of flashcards. The first provides practice at identifying fact and opinion statements.
The second style help learners focus on which words in a statement indicate a fact or an opinion. Students will quickly pick up that words like ‘should’ indicate an opinion and words like ‘is’ indicate a fact.
The third style contains learning tips to remind students of how to differentiate facts from opinions.
