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Can This Be Checked? is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on using fact and opinion to judge credibility, aligned to Common Core standard D3.2.3-5. It prints 3 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Can This Be Checked?

D3.2.3-5

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Sort each sentence into fact or opinion.

1.Sort each one: Fact or Opinion?

Sort: The noise and smoke will spoil the valley, Coal cost 2 pence a mile per ton, The directory lists 11 railway porters, The valley gained more than it lost

FactOpinion
2.Sort each one: Fact or Opinion?

Sort: The boatmen deserved better treatment, Canals are pleasanter than railways, The line opened in 1846, Patrick Dunn was admitted in March 1847

FactOpinion
3.Sort each one: Fact or Opinion?

Sort: Your rates should be spent where you live, The railway was the best thing to happen here, 84 hands signed the petition, Third class fare was 6 pence

FactOpinion

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Answer key — Can This Be Checked?

Set 17. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Coal cost 2 pence a mile per ton — Fact 2. The directory lists 11 railway porters — Fact 3. The noise and smoke will spoil the valley — Opinion 4. The valley gained more than it lost — Opinion
  2. 2.1. Canals are pleasanter than railways — Opinion 2. Patrick Dunn was admitted in March 1847 — Fact 3. The boatmen deserved better treatment — Opinion 4. The line opened in 1846 — Fact
  3. 3.1. 84 hands signed the petition — Fact 2. The railway was the best thing to happen here — Opinion 3. Third class fare was 6 pence — Fact 4. Your rates should be spent where you live — Opinion

More practice for D3.2.3-5

Use the difference between fact and opinion to judge whether sources can be trusted.

Teaching this next? Can This Sentence Be Checked? is the 45-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D3.2.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.