Point of View

Identifying Fact and Fiction

Identifying Fact and Fiction

While facts can be proven, opinions cannot, even though they may be expressed as if they are definitive statements. CARS & STARS Online helps students become the kind of readers who can easily – and effortlessly – evaluate a text to determine if it is fact or fiction.

How we Tell a Truth from an Opinion

How we Tell a Truth from an Opinion

Being able to look at information and think about the reasoning that led to its creation – and whether it is a verifiable fact or something slanted by the agenda of those providing it – is an important life skill, and so one of the twelve reading strategies that make up CARS & STARS Online.