Third Grade
Worksheets
Advertising: Fact or Opinion?
How can we tell if the book we're reading is fiction or nonfiction? Fiction books are made-up stories. They may have facts in them that are true. But the story has been made up. The characters are not real, either.
For example, the book Charlotte's Web is a fiction book. How do we know? We know that spiders, pigs, and rats can't talk. Spiders cannot spin words into their webs. Fiction comes from someone's imagination. Sometimes the picture on a book will be a clue that the book is fiction. If we see a picture that shows little green men living on Mars, we know that is fiction.
Companies send messages to get people to buy their products. These messages are called advertising. Companies try to convince you that their product is the best. They try to convince you that you need it. Advertising is one of the strongest influences on consumers. A consumer is anybody who buys goods or services.
