Fact & Opinion Sort Text Detective Reading Comprehension Activities & Centers
 
Are you looking for a fun, highly engaging, and EFFECTIVE way to teach fact and opinion? This set of activities will teach your students how to distinguish between fact and opinion by becoming observant text detectives and solving crimes. You can even use it as the basis for a room transformation!
 
This resource includes:
Fact Detectives Reading Centers
Fact and Opinion Sort
 
 
FACT DETECTIVES CENTERS
This activity is super engaging for students! They will read each storyline along with the witness statements to determine which clues are facts and which are just opinions.
 
Next, students record the clues in their detective notebook and compare them to the suspect cards to determine who the culprit is. If students successfully weed out the opinions, the case will be solved!
 
Includes:
8 different cases to solve
Top Secret Case Files
Storylines
Witness Statements
Suspect Cards
Detective's Notebook
Fact Finder Detective Badges
 
 
FACT AND OPINION SORTING ACTIVITY
Part two of this resource is a sorting task for your literacy centers. Students read each statement and then sort by whether it is fact or opinion.
 
Includes:
30 Statement Cards
Heading Cards
Instructions
 
These activities are very motivating for young learners!