{"id":71697,"date":"2020-05-05T10:33:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T14:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=71697"},"modified":"2020-05-22T14:46:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T18:46:11","slug":"facts-and-opinions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-4-6\/connecting-reading-and-writing\/persuasive-texts\/facts-and-opinions\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts and Opinions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-71657\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/meeting-1293980_1280.png\" alt=\"Image of people in a meeting.\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/meeting-1293980_1280.png 1280w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/meeting-1293980_1280-300x245.png 300w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/meeting-1293980_1280-768x626.png 768w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/meeting-1293980_1280-1024x835.png 1024w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/meeting-1293980_1280-165x135.png 165w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/meeting-1293980_1280-1140x930.png 1140w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/meeting-1293980_1280-945x771.png 945w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/meeting-1293980_1280-750x612.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Connecting Reading and Writing:\u00a0Persuasive Texts<\/h5>\n<h2>Goals:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Explore persuasive texts<\/li>\n<li>Understand the difference between facts and opinions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yesterday we read the article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/storyworks.scholastic.com\/issues\/2017-18\/100117\/is-it-good-to-be-bored-sometimes.html#Lower%20Level\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Is it good to be bored sometimes?<\/a>\u201d where the author described two points of view, \u201cbeing bored isn\u2019t fun\u201d and \u201cbeing bored leads to creativity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing the difference between facts and opinions can help us read and understand persuasive texts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Facts: A fact can be proved to be true. When an author teaches you, the pieces of information are called facts.<\/li>\n<li>Opinions: An opinion is what someone believes or feels. Opinions cannot be proved true or false. You can agree with an opinion, but that does not make it true.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/12bMHf8eTLr10P7q9HIhUzNnOOgolHlbg\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch this video<\/a> where we explore the examples of fact and opinion from the article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/storyworks.scholastic.com\/issues\/2017-18\/100117\/is-it-good-to-be-bored-sometimes.html#Lower%20Level\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Is it good to be bored sometimes?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On your own, read \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/storyworks.scholastic.com\/issues\/2017-18\/100117\/is-it-good-to-be-bored-sometimes.html#Lower%20Level\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Is it good to be bored sometimes?<\/a>\u201d again.<\/p>\n<p>As you read try to identify some <strong>facts<\/strong> and <strong>opinions<\/strong> the author used in the article.<\/p>\n<p>Share your thinking with a family member.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Opportunities:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Create your own cartoon to replace the cartoon in the article. Try to include speech bubbles that show what the article is about.<\/li>\n<li>Keep on reading <a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-4-6\/exploring-the-library-learning-commons\/\">books you choose every day<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowing the difference between facts and opinions can help us read and understand persuasive texts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72685,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71697","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71697\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}