{"id":12726,"date":"2014-06-13T03:52:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T08:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/?p=12726"},"modified":"2019-03-27T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:21:07","slug":"what-is-the-fact-or-opinion-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/what-is-the-fact-or-opinion-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Fact or Opinion Strategy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/professionallearningboard.com\/blog\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"check_out_the_new_blog\" title=\"Check Out the New Blog\" alt=\"Check Out the New Blog\"  src=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/images\/check_out_the_new_blog.jpg\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WhatistheFactorOpinionStrategy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12401\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WhatistheFactorOpinionStrategy.jpg\" alt=\"WhatistheFactorOpinionStrategy\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>The Fact or Opinion strategy teaches students to differentiate a fact from an opinion. This strategy is valuable to a student\u2019s learning process as it facilitates evidence based learning and encourages them to be analytical in their reading and listening skills.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defining Fact and Opinion:<\/strong><br \/>\nStudents are taught that \u201ca fact\u201d is an \u201cactuality\u201d i.e. an existence of an object, occurrence of an event or information which is objective. Facts are those statements that are proved by the presence of evidence. On the other hand \u201can opinion\u201d can be a general or individual view, belief or impression. These statements are identified by the presence of words such as, \u201cfeel, believe, think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact or Opinion activities:<\/strong><br \/>\nThese are a few simple, quick and easy to implement activities that will encourage the use of this strategy within the classroom.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Teaching the strategy:<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify the statement: On the whiteboard draw two columns, one with sentences (around ten) and another for writing the word \u2018fact\u2019 or \u2018opinion\u2019. Students have to determine whether \u2018fact\u2019 or \u2018opinion\u2019 is written next to each sentence.<\/li>\n<li>State a fact or an opinion: Make some chits with the words \u2018fact\u2019 or \u2018opinion\u2019 written on them. Ask each student to come up to the teacher\u2019s table, pick a chit and make a statement according to the word on the chit.<\/li>\n<li>True or false: A sentence is displayed as fact or an opinion. Call out students randomly, to determine whether the sentence is true or false with explanation.<\/li>\n<li>Gathering evidence: Give a worksheet containing sentences related to a topic that was covered in class. Students are instructed to verify if the sentences are fact or opinions, by finding evidence from their textbooks. They should write down the evidence next to each statement. After completion, students are asked to compare their answers with their neighbor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In between lectures:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fact or opinion corners: Sign boards with the word \u2018fact\u2019 and \u2018opinion\u2019 are placed in two corners of the classroom. Students have to assemble in the middle. After reading out a sentence, they are instructed to stand in the appropriate corner based on their reasoning. Students who do not know the answer must continue standing in the middle. A student from each group can explain their thought of reasoning. This activity helps teachers clear any doubts and is also provides good feedback regarding the student\u2019s comprehension of the topic.<\/li>\n<li>Sit or stand: Students are instructed to stand up when a fact is stated and continue sitting when it is an opinion. It helps teachers to easily identify those students who have not understood the statement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Closure activity:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a closure activity, you can prepare a text material, content from a newspaper or even an audio recording. Students are grouped together and asked to read or listen to the material and to categorize sentences as facts or opinions with explanations for each.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Discuss here:<\/strong><\/span> What are some ways you teach students to classify content as facts or opinions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  The Fact or Opinion strategy teaches students to differentiate a fact from an opinion. This strategy is valuable to a student\u2019s learning process as it facilitates evidence based learning and encourages them to be analytical in their reading and listening skills.<br \/>\nDefining Fact and Opinion:<br \/>\nStudents are taught that \u201ca fact\u201d is an \u201cactuality\u201d i.e. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1307,1306,202,993,115,539],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12728,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12726\/revisions\/12728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}