Reading Comprehension Success in 20 Minutes a Day, 3rd Edition

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T H E D I F F E R E N C E B E T W E E N FA C T A N D O P I N I O N
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Listen carefully to what people say today and try to determine whether they are stating a fact or express-
ing an opinion. When they offer opinions, do they support them?
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As you come across facts and opinions today, practice turning them into their opposites; make facts
out of opinions and opinions out of facts.
Skill Building until Next Time

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n order to solve a crime, a detective cannot just get the facts of the case, just discover the motive, just deci-
pher difficult clues, or just distinguish between fact and opinion. To be successful, a detective must do all
these things at the same time. Similarly, reading really can’t be broken down into these separate tasks. Read-
ing comprehension comes from employing all these strategies simultaneously. This lesson gives you the oppor-
tunity to combine these strategies and take your reading comprehension skills to the next level.
L E S S O N
Putting It All
Together
L E S S O N S U M M A R Y
This lesson reviews what you learned in Lessons 1–4: getting the
facts, finding the main idea, determining what words mean in context,
and distinguishing between fact and opinion. In this lesson, you’ll get
vital practice in using all four skills at once.
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R e v i e w : W h a t Yo u ’ v e
L e a r n e d s o F a r
These are the strategies you studied in the past four
lessons:
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Lesson 1: Find the facts in what you read. You
practiced looking for the basic information that
was being conveyed in the paragraphs: the who,
what, when, where, and how.
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