Opinion vs Fact

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English Analysing, Interpreting & Evaluating Creating Texts

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This worksheet can help students develop their abilities sorting facts from opinions.

It is part of a larger unit on information reports that was written to enhance students’ understanding and abilities in researching and writing information reports.

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Curriculum Codes

AC9E6LY03 9

Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text, and engage and influence audiences

AC9E6LY05 9

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, and to connect and compare content from a variety of sources

AC9E6LY06 9

Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features

ACELY1711 8.4

Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text

ACELY1713 8.4

Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts

ACELY1714 8.4

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience

ACELY1715 8.4

Re-read and edit students’ own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices

ACELY1717 8.4

Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts

ACELY1801 8.4

Analyse strategies authors use to influence readers

EN3-3A old

Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies

EN3-5B old

Discusses how language is used to achieve a widening range of purposes for a widening range of audiences and contexts

EN3-2A old

Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts

EN3-OLC-01 new

Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding

EN3-VOCAB-01 new

Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts

EN3-RECOM-01 new

Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension

EN3-CWT-01 new

Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language

EN3-SPELL-01 new

Automatically applies taught phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts, and justifies spelling strategies used to spell unfamiliar words

EN3-HANDW-01 new

Sustains a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style

EN3-HANDW-02 new

Selects digital technologies to suit audience and purpose to create texts

EN3-UARL-01 new

Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts

EN3-UARL-02 new

Analyses representations of ideas in literature through genre and theme that reflect perspective and context, argument and authority, and adapts these representations when creating texts

VCELY345

Analyse strategies authors use to influence readers

VCELY347

Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts

VCELY358

VCELY359

Reread and edit own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices

VCELY361

Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts

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If students are struggling with the difference between fact and opinion, please try our ‘Fact or Opinion Game’ available on Teach This.

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