Anyway! The past week or so, we have been focusing on Fact and Opinion. I wanted to find a super-duper-fantastic idea that would leave my kiddos begging for fact and opinion daily, but I came up short. Many google and pinterest searches came up inconclusive. So! I racked my brain and came up with an idea of my own. Shocker! I didn't know I was capable of this anymore.
I'm a big big BIG fan of anchor charts. I don't know what it is, but I love rallying the troops around the carpet and charting information on a piece of chart paper together. Maybe it's the second grade teacher in me. Anyway, I love it. My original plan was to create an anchor chart for fact and opinion, create our own definitions and write examples... blah blah. (I say "blah blah" like its a bad thing, but I still highly enjoy that idea!)
I decided to give the anchor chart a little face lift. Paging Dr. Paul Nassif (RHOBH, anyone?)!
Using a bulletin board, I created a giant T-Chart with border and my cricut. One side labeled, "Fact" and the other "Opinion".
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Hey! I tie fact & opinion into Social Studies. We do a mini-study [just one lesson] on the history of our town, and they have to write a fact paragraph. Then, they get to write a paragraph about their town that is ALL opinion. It doesn't take more than 2 lessons & the kids like it! =)
ReplyDeleteI did something similar last year. Except for an opinion one student wrote, "Ms. Noren sucks." And his name was on it so it's not like I didn't know who wrote it!!! LOL it still is one of my fave stories from last year.
ReplyDeleteYour board looks great! I use persuasive texts to teach fact and opinion. We identify clue words for opinions (think, best, feelings), and we chart them. Then we read a persuasive article and record statements on notecards. We sort the statements into facts and opinions and talk about how the author used the facts to support his opinions.
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Thanks, Jordon! You're the best:)
ReplyDeleteI love this post! You have a great sense of humor and this seemed like a creative and engaging lesson. Think I will try it tomorrow. Thanks, Sebrina www.burkesspecialkids.com
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