Fact or Feeling?
Use this bright, colourful and engaging board game to help students consolidate their knowledge of facts (objective language) and opinions (subjective language). Students will read a sentence and determine whether it is a statement of fact or simply somebody's opinion.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to use thinking verbs to express opinion, e.g. I think, I believe and to use summary verbs to report findings, e.g. we concluded.
- We are learning to use thinking verbs to express opinions, e.g. I think, I believe, and to use summary verbs to report findings, e.g. we concluded.
- We are learning when it is appropriate to share feelings and opinions, e.g. in a personal recount and when to remain more objective, e.g. in a factual recount.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E4LA02
9
Identify the subjective language of opinion and feeling, and the objective language of factual reporting
AC9E6LA02
9
understand the uses of objective and subjective language, and identify bias
ACELA1489
8.4
Understand differences between the language of opinion and feeling and the language of factual reporting or recording
EN2-11D
old
Responds to and composes a range of texts that express viewpoints of the world similar to and different from their own
EN2-OLC-01
new
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
EN2-VOCAB-01
new
Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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