Fact and Opinion Worksheets

About this resource

A fact can be checked true or false. An opinion tells what someone thinks or feels. This is a full fact-and-opinion kit for second grade, with three practice formats that build from recognizing to sorting to writing: first circling the right answer, then cutting and sorting, then writing an original sentence of each kind.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (23 pages)

• 8 student pages in 3 page types plus a Helper page (below), each with a big "My name" line and one short instruction
• 24 fact sentences and 24 opinion sentences, all invented and grade-appropriate; every opinion carries a judgment word (best, favorite, should, and others) and every fact does not, so no sentence is ambiguous
• 2 cut-and-sort pages, 12 sentences each (6 facts, 6 opinions), edge-to-edge in a 4-by-3 grid
• 2 answer keys generated from the same data as the pages, plus the two criteria a Write Your Own sentence must meet to count
• 1 tracker (16 rows), 1 team note, 1 home page, 1 filled example (an invented student), 1 phrase bank (21 starters)
• 1 binder cover and divider tabs (5 tabs plus a spine label) that drop straight into a classroom binder
• Start Here, a how-to-read-a-page page, a definitions page with blanks for your program's own wording, and a back page

THE THREE PAGE TYPES (dots show the level, never color)

1. Fact and Opinion Helper (1 dot) — what is a fact, what is an opinion, side by side, in kid words

2. Circle Fact or Opinion (1 dot, 3 pages) — read a sentence, circle Fact or Opinion

3. Sort Fact and Opinion (2 dots, 2 pages) — cut sentences and glue them into Fact or Opinion bins

4. Write Your Own (3 dots, 2 pages) — write one fact and one opinion about a given topic (dogs, winter, school lunch, recess)

Sentences come in three sets of eight (A, B, C) for Circle, and two sets of twelve for Sort, so a child never meets the same sentence twice.

Built For The Child Holding The Page

A big "My name" line, one short instruction, large rounded letters, and space to write. Nothing on a student page is written for an adult. Cutting is limited to Sort Fact and Opinion: 12 pieces a page in a 4-by-3 grid, edge to edge, each wide enough to read and glue.

Type In, Or Print

The name and date lines, the tracker, the team note, the home page and the definitions page note box are type-in fields in any PDF reader. The lines a student writes on are pencil work. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

Second grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, and any teacher working with an older student who still needs this skill. The home page sends practice sentences to a family; the team note hands off what changed since the last meeting.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

Fact-and-opinion practice with the record-keeping around it. It is not a probe, a goal bank or a score sheet, not a reading assessment, and not a claim about any student's age or rate of progress. Predictions and sentences that mix a fact and a judgment in one clause are not practiced. Write Your Own is checked against two plain-language rules, never a single right-answer key.