2 Facts and a Fib

Introduce, review, and/or reflect any subject, literature selection, current event,or unit of study by playing "Two Facts and a Fib." Tell students to prepare 1, 2 and 3 cards using index cards or scrap paper. After you have read all three clues, students will hold up the card with the number that corresponds to the fib. An alternative is to let each student compile two facts and a fib and read them to the class or to stump the teacher.

A / 2 Facts and a Fib
1. States are allowed to adopt whatever percentage of CCSS fits their needs.
2. Nevada students, in the graduating class of 2018, will be the first to use the high school SBAC (SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium) in ELA and mathematics as a requirement for graduation.
3. MathematicsCCSS will be fully implemented in Nevada, K-12, in 2015-2016.
B / 2 Facts and a Fib
1. CCSS language arts standards will be fully implemented in Nevada, K-12, in 2012-2013.
2. The CCSS are for grades K-12.
3. There are CCSS for ELA, mathematics, science, and social studies.
C / 2 Facts and a Fib
1. CCSD employs over 5,000 substitutes.
2. Board of school trustees are elected to four-year term.
3. CCSD’s largest student enrollment was in the 2008-2009 school year, with 311,240 students.
D / 2 Facts and a Fib
1. Nevada law requires school attendance between ages 7 and 18.
2. There are 17 school districts in the state of Nevada.
3. Nevada’s basic per-pupil state funding is $4,035.
E / 2 Facts and a Fib
1. Peanuts characters Lucy and Linus were cousins.
2. Winnie the Pooh and all his friendsare based on stuffed toys that belonged toauthor A.A. Milne’sson, Christopher Robin.
3. The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
F / 2 Facts and a Fib
1. One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.
2.Youare taller in the morning.
3. Your brain is most active during the day.
G / 2 Facts and a Fib
1. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
2. Throughout your life, the amount of saliva you have could fill five swimming pools.
3. 15 percent of Americans secretly bite their toes.
H / 2 Facts and a Fib
1. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
2. Maine is the only State whose name is just one syllable.
3. There are only three words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, and stupendous.
I / 2 Facts and a Fib
1. The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie Psycho.
2. 1 in every 10 Americans has been on TV.
3. Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
J / 2 Facts and a Fib
1. Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together. They were even in the same fraternity, where Seuss decorated the fraternity house walls with drawings of his character
2. Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham because Bennett Cerf bet him $100 he could not write a book using only 100 words.
3. Dr. Seuss was not a doctor. He added the doctor to his name as a joke because his father always wanted him to get a doctoral degree and become a college professor.

2 Facts and a Fib Answers

  1. Fib is 1. Participating states must adopt 100% of the common core state standards. However, states are able to integrate an additional 15% of the content of their own academic standards into the common core state standards.
  2. Fib is 3. CCSS currently include Language Arts and Mathematics only.English-language arts and math were the first subjects chosen for the common core state standards because these two subjects are skills, upon which students build skill sets in other subject areas. They are also the subjects most frequently assessed for accountability purposes.Of course, other subject areas are critical to young people’s education and their success in college and careers. Once the English-language arts and math standards are developed, CCSSO and NGA Center, on behalf of the states, may developcommon core in additional subject areas.
  3. Fib is 1. The latest Fast Facts sheet reports 3,666 substitute teachers.
  4. Fib is 3. Nevada’s basic per-pupil state funding is $5,035.
  5. Fib is 1. Peanuts characters Lucy and Linus were brother and sister.
  6. Fib is 3. Your brain comes out to play at night: You’d think that your brain is more active during the day, when the rest of your body is. But it’s not. Yourbrain is more active when you sleep. FYI…You are taller in the morning: Throughout the day, thecartilage between your bones is compressed, making you about 1 cm shorter by day’s end.
  7. Fib is 2. Throughout your life, the amount of saliva you have could fill two swimming pools: Sincesalivais a vital part ofdigestion, it is little surprise that your mouth makes so much of it.
  8. Fib is 3. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
  9. Fib 2.1 in every 4 Americans has been on TV.
  10. Fib is 2. Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham because Bennett Cerf bet him $50 he could not write a book using only 50 words.

Adapted from Fact or Fib? From Revisit, Reflect, Retell by Linda Hoyt