Julie McInerney

3-19-03

SLM 521 SPO3

Drop In #4

Fact and Opinion: What is the Difference?

Dinosaurs Fact or Fiction

Facts:

Facts are statements that are true about certain topics. Click on picture below to learn facts about dinosaurs. Record three facts about dinosaurs below the picture.

 

 

What are three facts about dinosaurs that you learned from the link above?

 

Opinions:

Opinions are statements that tell how a person thinks or feels about a subject. It tells a person’s attitude. Many times in book reviews, an author will read a book and tell others what he or she thinks of the book. Opinions are not fact or absolutely true. Go to the following link to read some opinions about Matilda and see how opinions are different than facts.

http://www.shsonline.org/III_Grade/Records/Brittany.html

 

 

 

 

 

 What was an opinion expressed about the book Matilda?

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How are these two sites the same? How were they different?

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