Unit 2 Lesson Plan for Literacy - Differentiating between Facts and Opinions

This is a Unit 2 Lesson Plan for Literacy subject under the course code 4164 Cambridge International Certificate in Teaching and Learning. The lesson aims to help Year 3 students differentiate between facts and opinions in texts. It includes various activities and assessments to help students understand the difference between the two.

4164 Cambridge International Certificate in Teaching and Learning
Unit 2 Lesson plan
Session title Literacy Date 9th May 2018 Location Winchestor School
Learner group Year 3 Duration 50 Group size 33
Learning aims
A statement which provides the scope of
the subject and the overall intent of the
course
Children analyse texts to identify facts and opinions and write an opinion of a news article
Learning objectives
What are learners expected to learn after
completing the lesson? These should be
specific and able to be assessed.
To differentiate between facts and opinion.
Time Content and teacher activity Learner activity Formative assessment Learning materials and resources
In
Minutes
How are you explaining and
illustrating the topic?
What are the learners doing to help
them understand the topic?
How do you plan to assess learning
as it is happening?
What resources will you use that will
support the teaching and learning
activities?
10 I have drawn an image of “dinosaur”
on the white board and written down
two sentences like “Dinosaur is a
kind of animal” and another one
“Dinosaur is the best animal” and I
would relate to the students the
difference between the two
sentences. I would convey to them
that one is a general information and
the other one is the opinion of
another person
Explore sentences and sort them
into facts and opinions
Formative assessments Worksheets and white board
15 I shall show them a brief video
clipping in the class regarding a
detective serial in which after
Watching the video in class and
trying to analyse the meaning of
each sentences
Projector in class
4164 Unit 2 Lesson Plan for assessment in 2018 and 2019

4164 Cambridge International Certificate in Teaching and Learning
Time Content and teacher activity Learner activity Formative assessment Learning materials and resources
interviewing a witness in relation to a
crime he says that “these are facts”.
This can help them in understanding
the definition of facts and opinion.
10 I shall ask the students to read out
loud the news article Komodo
dragon report and ask the children to
note the true statements that have
been mentioned in the course of the
report. The students will be asked
regarding whether it was a true
incident and by whom it was
reported. Each of the children should
be asked about their opinion in
relation to the event.
The learner has to interpret the
meaning of the sentences and point
out which ones should be the real
facts and which are the ones that are
the opinions of someone else.
Newspaper and worksheet
15 The text Born Blind will be read out
to the students within the class and
the students have to identify which
are the facts and which are the
sentences that fall under the ambit of
the opinion of other people. They
can discuss about these topic among
themselves within a group and then
come up with the right answer.
The students will express their
opinions on the topic in a group by
the help of discussion.
The text book
Use as many rows in the table as applicable – add rows if necessary
Lesson Evaluation: Include what you feel went well and what you would like to improve.
It was difficult for students to differentiate between facts and opinions I had to stop and discuss each sentence and ask students to state if the sentence
is fact or opinion. I would like to have more hamds on activities for them to explore and quiz on ipads to check their learning.
4164 Unit 2 Lesson Plan for assessment in 2018 and 2019