Fact and opinion skills help a student distinguish between statements that can be proven true (facts) from statements that express an attitude or judgment and cannot be proven true (opinions).
In 2012, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed over 9,000 plant and animal species as either critica...
Reading Set: 9 Passages
Is there any more magical phrase than “Once upon a time”? This beginning of so many classic fairy tales sends the reader into a...
Reading Set: 10 Passages
For centuries, humans have attempted to codify the rights, privileges, responsibilities, and freedoms each person has in a so...
Reading Set: 5 Passages
The French Revolution began in 1789 and took the idea of modern democracy from the fledgling United States to Europe. A perio...
Reading Set: 6 Passages
by William Temple Hornaday
William Temple Hornaday was a zoologist and conserva...
659 Words, 10th-12th Grades, Fact and Opinion, Main / Central Idea, and Summary
Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? Scientists have a standard for determining the difference, and it may be different than the...
302 Words, 2nd-4th Grades, Context Clues, Fact and Opinion, and Summary
by Hans Christian Andersen from Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, Second Series
Can a princess really feel a pea under a mountain of...
391 Words, 1st-3rd Grades, 420L - 730L, Fact and Opinion, Figurative Language, Summary, and Theme
Students will read a passage about the tricoteuses, the knitting women who sat near the guillotine during the French Revolution...
676 Words, 10th-12th Grades, 1060L - 1290L, Fact and Opinion, Main / Central Idea, and Summary
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. These amendments were finally ratified in 1791...
489 Words, 9th-12th Grades, 1300L +, Fact and Opinion and Summary