Recounts | Newspaper Reports

Objectives

To recognise the difference between facts and opinions.

Resources

Any local newspaper | KWL Chart completed in previous lessons | 📄 Facts and Opinions Sorting – Cards | 📄 Facts and Opinions Sorting - Mats | 📄 Facts and Opinions Sorting – Answers

Today's Lesson

Spelling

Review spelling words to prepare for your test at the end of the week. Use Spelling Frame to help learn this week's spellings. Choose one of the activities on Spelling Tiles.

PRACTISE - Spelling Frame

Introduction

Begin by taking out your KWL chart. Have a quick look through it if you need to refresh your memory. Tell your student that you will be covering the next feature of a newspaper report, and that is facts. Ask your student to tell you what a fact is (a thing that is known or proved to be true). How is a fact different to an opinion? Discuss this with your student.

Main Activity

Watch the following video which will help you student identify facts and opinions.

To make sure your student can distinguish between fact and opinion, allow them to play the game below:

PLAY – Fact or Opinion? Game (Quia)

Once you are confident your student understands the difference, explain to them that newspaper reports use facts and opinions to tell their stories. They often use the five W's, (who, what, why, where and when) to give the reader as many facts as possible. When the facts have been given, the person writing the newspaper report sometimes gives their opinion of the story, why it happened or the people in it. It is important that the author does not try to pass opinion off as fact.

If you have any local newspapers, you could share an article with your student and discuss what facts are included and whether there is any opinion.

Add to your KWL chart as necessary.

Now, encourage your student to cut up and read the Facts and Opinions Sorting Cards and place each statement on the correct mat, using the Facts and Opinions Sorting - Mats, according to whether they think the statements are fact or opinion.

📄 REVIEW - Facts and Opinions Sorting – Cards

📄 ACCESS - Facts and Opinions Sorting - Mats

Citations

[1] spellingframe.co.uk [2] www.quia.com