Fact and Opinion Activities Sort 2nd 3rd Grade Fun Reading Centers Comprehension
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- Easel Activity
- Easel Assessment
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This bundle includes my original Just the Facts, Ma'am: Fact and Opinion resource plus the add-on pack with extra cases to solve and new suspects.Students LOVE completing these activities! They are highly engaging and provide real-world scenarios in which to apply reading skills.Includes:Fact DetectPrice $5.60Original Price $7.00Save $1.40
This is a HUGE 2nd grade bundle containing 62 full-length resources (approx. 1000 pages) for teaching reading and math skills! It includes task cards, centers, stations, games, worksheets, and activities.The materials cover phonics, reading comprehension, grammar, sight words, addition, subtraction,Price $125.00Original Price $188.95Save $63.95
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Are you looking for a fun, highly engaging, and EFFECTIVE way to teach fact and opinion? This set of activities will teach your students how to distinguish between fact and opinion by becoming observant text detectives. You can even use it as the basis for a room transformation!
This resource includes:
- Fact Detectives Reading Centers
- Fact vs Opinion Sort
- Assessment
- Digital Activities
SOLVE THE CRIME FACT DETECTIVES
This activity is super engaging for students! They will read each storyline along with the witness statements to determine which clues are facts and which are just opinions.
Next, students record the clues in their detective notebook and compare them to the suspect cards to determine who the culprit is. If students successfully weed out the opinions, the case will be solved!
Includes:
- 8 different cases to solve
- Top Secret Case Files
- Storylines
- Witness Statements
- Suspect Cards
- Detective's Notebook
- Fact Finder Detective Badges
The Detective's Notebook page has also been prepared for digital use in Easel. You can assign a case via your online learning platform and students can fill out their notebook page online as well.
SORTING ACTIVITY
This activity is a sorting task for your literacy centers. Students read each statement and then sort by whether it is fact or opinion.
Includes:
- 30 Statement Cards
- Heading Cards
- Instructions
ASSESSMENT
This is a 10-item quiz or worksheet. Students read each statement and determine if it is a fact or an opinion. Includes answer key.
➡️ No color printing? No problem! Most pages are also provided in a black-and-white version.
DIGITAL ACTIVITIES
This resource includes digital activities that can be used with TpT's Easel feature.
Assessment: This is a digital version of the paper assessment. Students read/listen to a statement and choose whether it is a fact or an opinion. This assessment is self-grading.
The Detective's Notebook has been prepared for use through Easel with answer boxes for students to type into. You can assign any of the cases in Easel and then have students complete the notebook page on their device.
There is also a digital fact and opinion sort with self-checking answers.
These activities are very motivating for young learners!
❤️ "My students loved this so much that they asked to take a copy home!! That never happens! Thank you for providing such a fun learning activity for my students." - Jenee
❤️ "My second grade students were overly excited. They all wanted to stay in at recess to continue working on the various cases. For added effect, I made a policeman's hat out of construction paper for each student. We had a blast!" - Buyer
❤️ "The previous reviews were absolutely right! I had my kids BEGGING me for more!! Such a fun, engaging way to teach about fact and opinion - thank you!" - Molly
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