A major element in story telling, researching and essay writing is distinguishing between facts and opinion. The distinction should be made clear to primary school children before they are required to work on more difficult research in middle or high school. Here is one lesson that helps primary age children learn the difference between fact and opinion.
Write in complete sentences with correct punctuation
1. Write a fact using the word salty.
2. Write an opinion using the word sick.
3. Write a fact using the word red.
4. Write an opinion using the word joking.
5. Write a fact using the word hard.
6. Write an opinion using the word television.
Write fact if the sentence is a fact.
Write opinion if the sentence is an opinion.
7. The Jacksons are not very nice people.
8. We watched our dog run in a circle chasing his tail.
9. A light year is the distance that light travels in a year going 186,000 miles a second.
10. Cars must stop at red lights.
11. Mashed potato feels squishy when you eat it.
12. Horses are too big for me to ride.
13. In Summer it gets very hot on our farm.
14. My dog is the best behaved dog in the world.
15. Tomatoes can be red, yellow or green.
For group work in class, students can make a list of their own facts and opinions. Time permitting these can be shared with the rest of the class.
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