Fact vs. Opinion

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Fact vs. Opinion
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Facts

• Can be proven
• Real for all people and places
• Can be duplicated
• Can be observed
• Historical
• 100 percent true

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Opinions

• Refer to a particular persons (or groups)
• Feeling
• Thought
• Judgment
• Belief
• Estimate
• and/or anything that is not 100 percent true
• Cant be proven

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Distinguish between fact or opinion

• All people must breathe to live.
• All people love basketball.
• Blue is the best color.
• He is silly.
• Abraham Lincoln was a United States president.

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Distinguish between fact or opinion

• I dont like broccoli.
• Fire needs oxygen to burn.
• Pizza tastes great.
• Most people have two arms and legs.
• North Carolina is a southern state.

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Books where facts can be found

• Encyclopedia
• Dictionary
• Almanac
• Atlas
• Text books
• Guinness Book of World Records

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Books where opinions can be found

• Autobiographies
• Self-help books
• Novels
• Journals

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Distinguish which parts of a newspaper are
factual and which are opinions

• Letters to the editor
• Restaurant reviews
• Sports scores
• Weather prediction
• Birth announcements
• Rainfall measurements

• Advice columns
• Astrology reports
• Obituaries
• Calendar of events
• Wedding announcements
• Movie reviews

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