Learners practice comparing a variety of story elements, including characters, setting, and key events, in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Tape Diagrams.

Students will make inferences, compare texts, and identify figurative language as they interpret reading passages.

Children practice comparing and contrasting characters in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Introduction to Charts and Diagrams.

Students will follow the four steps explained in this worksheet, then practice solving mixed number addition problems using tape diagrams.

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.

Use this resource for your students to practice reading and comparing the story elements of two fiction texts.

This worksheet teaches kids to look closely at the illustrations in fiction texts to help them comprehend the story.

This worksheet teaches first graders to be literature sleuths by identifying which of the sample texts are fiction and which are nonfiction.

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple non-fiction text features with this table of contents activity. Young readers will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about chameleons.

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

Practice comparing texts that share a distinctive feature within a genre.

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

Use this organizer to dig deep when comparing and contrasting texts within a genre.

Deepen your students’ literary comprehension by comparing texts within a genre.