Fact or Opinion Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: RH.6-8.8

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In the current climate of information readers are left to decide if what they are reading contains a hidden agenda of sorts. Facts are verifiable truths. Opinions are messages that are another person's thoughts or viewpoint. Readers are often left to their own to make this decision and come to their own conclusion. It is a bit more visible when they are hearing someone speak, by when left to dissect a written work there is a good slice left to their own minds to decide. These worksheets will ask students to answer this call and decide if a masked agenda lurks in the authors' words. Thinking at this level requires a special someone. We have to use this skill every time we read a news article in the modern times.

Fact or Opinion Worksheets To Print:

F or O? - We give you sentences to evaluate. You will place either letter to indicate your evaluation.

Label Me - More work on that same skill. The more practice on single sentences, the better.

Creepy Crawly Thing - Write the fact that the opinion is based on. Do you agree with the opinion?

Paragraph Highlighter - Find five facts in the paragraph and highlight them.

Highlighter Time - I knew there was a reason that I keep that yellow thing in my bag.

Food Facts - All the work you evaluate here is related to eating. This where the choice is a bit blurred.

Animal Opinions - Decide if each statement tells a Fact, states an Opinion or states Both a fact and an opinion.

Sports Talk - Facts don't change about these sports related topics. You will find that some sport fans are a bit biased towards their favorite sports teams.

The Numeric Facts - These are a real concrete set of facts to work with. Math is usually based in truth, but you can see where it can get lost with this worksheet.

Opinions Around the World - It should have been termed "Out of this World!" Some of the stuff is not on the Earth's surface.

Facts of the Game - Write your own fact and opinion statements about sports. Some sentences will have a little of both.

Take Your Time - Write the fact that the opinion is based on. Do you agree with the opinion?

Word With Muscle - Practice separating the fact and opinion in each statement. Each sentence has a mix of both or can be writing in a different way.

Outer Space - This one was named correctly! Are these statements relevant from your perspective?

Happy People - You can chime in here with your opinion anytime. Get a highlighter ready to go for this worksheet.

Elections - All these sentences focus on the subject of voting and election procedures.

Facts Can Be Proven - We ask you how you can go about proving these statements. We just need a brief answer.

Prove It - Label each of these sentences based on what evidence you would need.

Fats - You might need a little science background with this. These are all covered by the basic life science curriculum.

F or O - Based on what you learned, label each statement.

Halloween - A great sheet to use early in the school year.

Cats - There a few items here that you may need to look into.

Summer - All of these items are centered around the warmest season of the year.

Split the Topic - We give you a topic to work off of. You write a statement on each side of the coin.

Mixed Review - Put all of your skills to good use.

Write and Identify - You will write sentences and then breakdown pre-written statements.

Checkboxes - These are things that you may see in a newspaper, but in different sections.

Choose Your Own - Pick a topic and then write content based off of it.

Prove That - Is there evidence to support the thoughts that we present?

One and One - Write your own thoughts to serve each purpose.

More Related Worksheet Topics:

Kindergarten Opinion Writing - Start students off right. They really enjoy sharing their own thoughts.

Opinion Writing Prompts - These activities offer your students a great way to explore new topics.

Writing Conclusion Statements for Opinion Pieces - It is always cool to see how the conclusion can be spun in any direction that the author chooses to see it fit.

Writing Concluding Opinion Statements - This are not as easy as composing other pieces especially if you do not share the same thoughts as that of the author.

Writing Concluding Statements for Opinions - This is a more simplistic form of the worksheets found above.

Writing Evidence to Support Your Opinion - This is a fundamental skill when writing research-based pieces.

Writing Introductions for Opinion Pieces - It is really difficult to find the right words to begin a piece.

Writing Opinion Pieces - Evaluating work that is already provided for you is one thing. Being able to compose your own brings on a whole level of work.

The Digital Age- Separating Facts from Opinions Matters More Than Ever


Culture is shaped by all the things around us. There are so messages headed our way without even turning on our televisions or mobile devices. We often take for granted why someone is sending a message our way. Opinions are a personal interpretation and cannot be verified. Opinions have a zero trail of evidence. We forget to ask ourselves whether what is presented is a tried and true fact or a carefully crafted message to influence the reader towards a certain position. But, how do you pick apart a piece and decide which point is fact and which is opinion?


There is a process that can lead you to decide if something is fact or opinion. The first step is to look for subjective adjectives being used by the author. A subjective adjective is a descriptive word that is indicative of an opinion. Example words include: dumb, terrific, and crazy. If you spot a clearly subjectively used adjective, you know it is an opinion. Other words that are a dead giveaway of an opinion are the words: think and seem.


The most representative form of a fact statement is the existence of evidence. If a clear fact is presented that does not mean that they entire body of work is fact, it just means that you need to dig a little deeper to see if the facts hold merit. To do this you need to pick apart the evidence and gauge the level of reliability. If the evidence is reliable, you are dealing with a tried and true factual statement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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