LESSON FIVE: Comparing and Contrasting: Fact vs. Opinion
LESSON DESCRIPTION
Students compare, contrast, and distinguish between Fact/Opinion using various nonfiction resources.
GRADE-LEVEL EXPECTATIONS
R3C Use details from the text to retell main ideas, organize a sequence of events, identify simple cause and effect, draw conclusions, compare and contrast texts, make predictions, make inferences, distinguish between Fact/Opinion, identify and explain author’s purpose.
LESSON MATERIALS
§ Sources of literature
§ Supplies
o Pencils
o Paper
o Sticky Notes
o Overhead Markers
o Formative Assessment scoring guide
§ Handouts provided
§ Words to know
o compare
o cause
o effect
o contrast
o graphic organizer
o nonfiction
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Students complete a Fact/Opinion T-Chart graphic organizer comparing and contrasting fact vs. opinion passages providing three characteristics under each heading. Scoring guide provided.
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
1. Plan with the Library Media Specialist to collect Lewis and Clark resources. The title of a newspaper article or magazine editorial. Students predict what the article is about.
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Questions for Students
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What do you think this article is about? What type of writing is this article? What type of writing is this text? Why do we need to have both editorial/opinion writing and nonfiction writing? |
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Use any of the Lewis and Clark nonfiction texts. |
2. Co-teach with the Library Media Specialist to teach students to use EBSCohost to research periodicals about Lewis and Clark.
3. Review the use of Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) in locating nonfiction resources.
4. Co-teach with the Library Media Specialist. Discuss fact and opinion. Students develop statements of fact and opinion. Students switch with a partner to identify whether the statements are fact or opinion.
5. Students predict what an article is about based on the title. Read the article and decide if predictions are correct.
6. Display a Fact/Opinion T-Chart graphic organizer on the overhead. Write the title of the editorial on the left side and the title of the passage from the nonfiction text on the right side. Student share characteristics of factual writings and opinion passages and begin filling in the Fact/Opinion T-Chart graphic organizer with their responses.
7. Students complete a Fact/Opinion T-Chart graphic organizer comparing two examples of fact/opinion text.