• Practice for every day of the school year • Help students prepare for standardized testing

SKILL PRACTICE
Read the question. Fill in the bubble next to the correct answer.
 1. Which of these is a fact?
A 
Dogs make the best pets.
B 
Bathing a dog is fun.
C 
Dogs do amazing things.
D 
Dogs come in all sizes.
 2. Which of these states an opinion?
A 
All dogs are good to hug.
B 
Dogs can have short or long fur.
C 
Dogs can be trained.
D 
Some dogs have short hair.
 3. Which word tells you that this 
sentence is an opinion?
Dogs are amazing animals.
A 
are
B 
animals
C 
amazing
D 
dogs
 4. To get information for the passage, the 
author probably went to a 
.
A 
pet store
B 
library
C 
museum
D 
toy store
STRATEGY PRACTICE
Share with a partner what you visualized as you read the passage.
Fact and Opinion
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WEEK 14
DAY 4
READ THE PASSAGE
Think about how the student report is organized.
A Nice Place to Visit
I would like to explore the moon as an astronaut. It would be fun to wear a 
spacesuit and stomp on moon dust. The moon’s gravity has a weaker pull than 
on Earth. I would be super strong! I could jump 12 feet high and lift a 30-pound rock!
But I don’t think the moon is a good place to live. Earth has an atmosphere, or 
a layer of gases. People, animals, and plants need these gases to live. The top 
layer of the atmosphere is our sky. The moon has no atmosphere, so it has no 
sky. It would be strange to see only stars and blackness. 
Without air, nothing lives on the moon. I would miss trees and plants. And 
without air, there are no sounds on the moon. Silence all the time would be 
creepy. I like the moon, but I’m not ready to live there.