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Teach students to tell objective, subjective and biased language apart and to choose the right one for their purpose with this complete teaching bundle. Students compare two texts about the same playground, learn a test for each kind of language (Can you check it, with no bias words? Is it what the writer thinks or feels? Does it shut out other views?), learn the signal words that give each kind away, tell a news report from a commentary, and rewrite statements with the same topic and different language.

Combining a lesson plan, a 53-slide editable teacher presentation, three differentiated student activities with a bonus task, an exit ticket with interpretation guide, a class recording sheet and a hands-on card game, this curriculum-aligned bundle provides everything you need to teach the lesson from start to finish.

Built around the I Do, We Do, You Do model, students move from explicit teacher modelling to guided practice and independent application. They learn the words we need (fact, opinion, objective, subjective, biased, signal word), see each test modelled with a think-aloud, sort and rewrite statements together on whiteboards, and then write their own.

What's included in this teaching bundle?

Teacher Slides (PowerPoint)

• 53 editable, ready-to-teach slides following the I Do, We Do, You Do structure
• Clear learning intention and success criteria
• Explicit explanations and worked examples for objective, subjective and biased language, the three tests and the signal words
• A factual recount and a personal recount of the same excursion, and a news report and a commentary on the same council decision
• Where students meet bias in everyday texts (advertising, reviews, social media, news and sport) and the question to ask: what has been left out?
• Three scaffolds that run through the lesson: the three tests, the signal-word bank and the rewrite rule (same topic, different language)
• "Which language for the job?": matching objective and subjective language to text types and purposes
• Mini whiteboard and finger-answer check-ins throughout
• Each whiteboard and check-in slide followed by an answer slide

Lesson Plan and Exit Ticket (PDF)

• Complete I Do, We Do, You Do lesson plan for a 45 to 60 minute lesson, with a suggested time for each phase
• Diagnostic, formative and summative assessment points
• Key vocabulary, teacher notes and common misconceptions
• Check-ins for understanding linked to the matching slides
• Exit ticket (two per page) with an answers page and an interpretation guide
• Class recording sheet (Excel) to track results and plan next steps

Differentiated Student Activities (PDF)

• Activity overview to help you match each option to your students
• Three differentiated activities: Sort It Out, Spot the Signals and Say It Three Ways
• Students label statements as objective, subjective or biased, find the facts in a factual recount, mark the subjective and biased words in a review or a letter to the editor, rewrite statements as another kind while keeping the topic, and explain which language suits a text; the extension also has students write a news-report sentence and an editorial sentence from one fact file
• Bonus task: Two Ways (write a subjective paragraph about something you did this week, then rewrite it objectively on the same topic)
• Answer key and marking guide with model answers and evidence criteria

Hands-On Activity: Rumour Busters (PDF)

• Partner game, run as a follow-up lesson or literacy rotation (15 to 20 minutes): the buster reads a biased rumour about school life, points to the words that make it biased, busts it with the evidence card that proves it wrong, then says it again as a fair opinion
• Pairs work together towards a goal of 24 points, and the game ends when all eight rumours are busted
• 8 rumour cards and 16 evidence cards, cut out before the lesson. Eight evidence cards cannot bust a rumour: four are decoys (opinions that sound like support) and four are near misses (true facts on the topic that do not prove the rumour wrong)
• How to Play page and a recording sheet (with answers)
• Teacher page with set-up, a model round, what to listen for, misconceptions, Support and Extend, and an answer key for every rumour, decoy and near miss

Ideal for upper primary classrooms, this bundle provides a structured approach to teaching objective, subjective and biased language, combining explicit instruction, shared practice on whiteboards, differentiated independent work and an engaging hands-on game.

Formats: PowerPoint, PDF and Excel

Aligned to Australian Curriculum: Understand the uses of objective and subjective language, and identify bias (AC9E6LA02)

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