Countable or Arguable? 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.
Set 12 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.
Countable or Arguable?
D3.2.3-5
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Sort each sentence into fact or opinion.
1.Sort each one: Fact or Opinion?
Sort: The board voted six for and three against, 22,000 tons of grain were landed in 1888, The wage cut was unavoidable, The harbour mattered more than the mills
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2.Sort each one: Fact or Opinion?
Sort: Families were better off leaving, The uplands were better before the mills, Deaths ran at 27 per thousand in the mill district, One passage cost 4 pounds
FactOpinion
3.Sort each one: Fact or Opinion?
Sort: Children should never have worked half-time, The mill district held 11,200 people in 1891, The mills made the region, The relief fund held 340 pounds
FactOpinion
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Answer key — Countable or Arguable?
Set 12. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. 22,000 tons of grain were landed in 1888 — Fact 2. The board voted six for and three against — Fact 3. The harbour mattered more than the mills — Opinion 4. The wage cut was unavoidable — Opinion
2.1. Deaths ran at 27 per thousand in the mill district — Fact 2. Families were better off leaving — Opinion 3. One passage cost 4 pounds — Fact 4. The uplands were better before the mills — Opinion
3.1. Children should never have worked half-time — Opinion 2. The mill district held 11,200 people in 1891 — Fact 3. The mills made the region — Opinion 4. The relief fund held 340 pounds — Fact
More practice for D3.2.3-5
Use the difference between fact and opinion to judge whether sources can be trusted.
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