Fact or Opinion?Betty Davis

Module 6-TECH110 5/20/09

4RC2.6

SWBAT Identify and discuss fact and opinion in expository text

• What do you know about the swine flu?

• Turn and tell your neighbour

Is what you’ve heard fact or opinion?

What are the facts?

Facts are often accompanied by dates, amounts, data, graphs, and other concrete language such as:

proven, recorded, identified….

in groups, students will hunt the article for fact words to add to this list

What are the opinions?

Opinions are usually found in sentences with words like…

Thought, predicted, estimated…

in groups, students will hunt the article for fact words to add to this list

Your turn

1. Choose a fact word from the article and use it in a new sentence to summarize one real risk about swine flu.

2. Choose an opinion word from the article and use it in a new sentence to summarize how your opinion about swine flu has changed.

Hard working readersalways think about what

they are reading.

What do you think?