Fact or Opinion?: teacher key

How to Check If Something Is True, grade 5 edition, written for 5th grade. Some claims can be checked and some are only what a person thinks. Learn how to tell them apart and how to check a claim before you believe it.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What is an opinion?
   • Something you can check
   • What a person thinks (answer)
   • A fact that is false
2. A claim of fact turns out to be wrong. What is it now?
   • An opinion
   • A claim of fact that is false (answer)
   • Not a claim at all
3. What was the Cottingley fairy trick?
   • Paper fairies stuck on twigs with hat pins (answer)
   • Real fairies on film
   • A drawing of the Moon
4. Why does a second place help?
   • A true fact can be found in more than one good place (answer)
   • It makes the claim longer
   • It tells you the author's opinion
5. What does a source do?
   • Says where its facts came from (answer)
   • Draws a picture
   • Hides the date

Words

• opinion: a personal view
• hoax: a trick
• source: fact giver
• reprinted: printed again