Fact & Opinion, Grade 5

Learning to distinguish facts from opinions is an essential skill, necessary for success in the classroom and on standardized testing. It's also an important life skill, one that students will need as they start to evaluate news reports, evaluate advertising, and form their own opinions for decision-making.

This basic skills workbook offers a range of reading selections and exercises to help students learn to identify facts and opinions. The reading selections in this book are cross-curricular, offering practice in reading comprehension with language arts, social studies, and science topics. The activities help students separate facts from opinions, identify correct facts from incorrect ones, and challenge them to form their own opinions about various subjects. Give students these workpages for classroom use or as enrichment activities. Fact and Opinion makes the acquisition of this comprehension skill engaging and interesting.