Interpretation of Facts Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: RI.7.9

Core Standard
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Facts are usually indisputable but depending on how you view the facts will determine your decision based on the facts. An interpretation does not negate the facts, but it does put it in context of more factors that have to be considered. For instance, you may steal a car, but if you stole the car to drive your critically injured friend to the hospital you, would have greater favor with the person making a judgment. These worksheets will help students learn to look at facts when set into context.

Interpretation of Facts Worksheets To Print:

What's for Dinner? – Two bodies of work, one theme.

Interpretation of Facts Diagram – Let's see where there is some overlap in two bodies of work.

Interpret Articles – We look at different, but similar points on why you should go to college.

Understanding Facts – A side-by-side comparison of two texts.

My Facts or Your Facts – Can you really own facts?

Comparing How Authors Use Facts – What facts do both articles share, and what claims do they support?

Weigh the Facts – Do the two texts you read use any evidence that is the same?

What About Solar? – Identify the facts they have in common, and explain how they are interpreted and used by each author to support his or her claims.

Lighthouse On the Move – You have to tour a lighthouse some day. They are so neat.

The Changing Face of Autopsy – Explain what assertion the fact is used to support in each article.

Who Invented the Blood Bank? – Blood transfusions are always controversial. There are many differing opinions of this topic.

Tyrannosaurus Rex was a Predator – Paragraphs will vary. The two articles use the same facts to prove opposite assertions.

Quit Smoking Now! – What is the central idea of this article?

The Power of the Patent – Read both articles. Then write a paragraph discussing how each author emphasizes different evidence to support their central ideas.

McDonald's – There are many surprising facts in here.

How Can Facts Be Interpreted in Different Ways?


Facts are the proven ideas that are widely accepted as true by a majority of people because they have been argued for their truthfulness by someone who substantiated his or her argument to the audience's satisfaction completely. Based on how they are making sense and in what context, one can interpret a fact in various ways for his or her use. However, ethical teachings demand that any interpretation of a fact, regardless of how it is done, must not try to prove the fact itself wrong or go against it using any manipulative strategy. Here are a few ways that can help you interpret and understand any fact:


Interpretation Through Context


Any factual information given in a particular context derives its meaning from the context and may not make a clear sense when reading all alone. It is better to read the context in which a fact is being stated and then try to relate these two elements to interpret a fact rightly and differently.


Interpretation Through the Fact's History


A widely accepted and a repeatedly stated fact usually has a history of years after passing through which it was proved. To interpret any fact in a way that has never been argued before, you can read the history of the fact's acceptance and under what particular circumstances it was proved. Going on the deeper levels and trying to understand a fact in a detailed manner can help one in drafting its different and new interpretations.


Interpretation Through Interchanging the Cause and Effect


A fact is usually a combination of a cause that has a particular effect. We can understand and interpret a fact differently by interchanging the positions of the cause and the effect and then making new inferences without changing the original sense.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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