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Reading Strategy<\/span><\/h1>\r\n\"AUDIO-1-BT-44x44\"<\/a>\r\n\r\nPeople often try to change the way we think. Sometimes they want to sell us things. Sometimes they want us to support a cause. It is important that we can make up our minds for ourselves.\r\n\r\nOne way people try to change the way we think is by making their opinion sound like a fact. Can you tell the difference between fact and opinion? If you can, you will be better able to make careful decisions.\r\n\r\nA fact<\/strong> is something that you know is true. You can prove it. An opinion<\/strong> is something that you think or believe is true. But you cannot prove it, and people might disagree. For example:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
In 2006, the BC government made the spirit bear a provincial symbol.<\/span><\/td>\r\nThat is a fact<\/strong>. You can check if it is true with research into BC history.<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
The spirit bear is a kind of black bear that has white fur.<\/span><\/td>\r\nThat is a fact<\/strong>. You can prove it with science.<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
The spirit bear is cute.<\/span><\/td>\r\nThat is an opinion<\/strong>. You cannot prove it. People disagree on what is cute.<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
People should not hunt bears for sport.<\/span><\/td>\r\nThat is an opinion<\/strong>. People disagree about what is right and wrong.\u00a0Also, the word\u00a0should<\/em>\u00a0is a clue that the statement is an opinion.<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

Try this<\/h2>\r\nWrite down fact<\/i>\u00a0or opinion<\/em> for each statement.\u00a0You do not need to go back to the reader to see if these are true or false. Just look at the statement.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
1. The sasquatch is real.<\/span><\/td>\r\nfact or opinion?<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2. Ginger Goodwin died in 1918.<\/span><\/td>\r\nfact or opinion?<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
3. Bill Miner was handsome.<\/span><\/td>\r\nfact or opinion?<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
4. People should not race in bathtubs.<\/span><\/td>\r\nfact or opinion?<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
5. There are over 30 different First Nations languages in British Columbia.<\/span><\/td>\r\nfact or opinion?<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
6. Sook-Yin Lee was in a band called Bob\u2019s Your Uncle.<\/span><\/td>\r\nfact or opinion?<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n
Check your work with the Answer Key at the end of this chapter.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\r\n

Word Attack Strategy<\/span><\/h1>\r\n
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Word Patterns<\/h3>\r\n\"AUDIO-1-BT-44x44\"<\/a>The letter y<\/strong> can make lots of different sounds, depending on where it shows up in a syllable.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nA syllable that begins with y<\/strong> usually makes a \/y<\/strong>\/ sound like in yellow<\/strong>.\u00a0Read these words:\r\n