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Fact or Opinion?
- Grade 8
- English
- Reading and Interpretation
Description
In this activity, students exercise critical judgement to identify facts, opinions, and techniques used by authors to support their opinion. within different texts.
Learning goals
- I search for keywords to identify and distinguish between facts and opinions in a text and to identify techniques used by authors to support their opinion.
Vocabulary
- facts
- opinions
- keywords
- techniques
- authors
- differentiate
- distinguish
- identify
- purpose of text
- editorial
- objective
- subjective
- verifiable
- debatable
- proof
- bias
- judgement words
- emotional language
- manipulating facts
- quoting experts
- selective statistics
- universal
