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

Comparing Two Stories

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.

Asking Deeper Questions in Fiction Texts

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

Picture Clues

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.

Analyzing Elements of Fiction: Scripts and Plays

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

Organize Your Questions

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

Inferences & Evidence

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

Compare Story Elements

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

Sub-Genre Specific Traits Across Texts

In this three-part series, a child anticipates a family getaway. Practice summarizing works of fiction, identifying chronology, interpreting pictures, and identifying homophones and homographs through this series of reading and comprehension activities.

My Vacation

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

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts

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

Compare and Contrast Texts: Same Sub-Genre

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

Comparing Texts: Separate Traits of a Sub-Genre

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Part 1: Making Connections with Texts

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Graphic Organizer: Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts

Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

The Similarities in the Stories

Practice comparing two nonfiction texts in this reading comprehension worksheet!&nbsp;

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: The Influence of Water

Students will compare two informational texts on the same topic using a Venn diagram.

Compare & Contrast Nonfiction Texts: The Underground Railroad

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

Summary High Five

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements.  Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

Analyzing Elements of Fiction: Poetry

Use this resource to practice close reading in a fictional text. Your students will look at the adjectives, adverbs, and verbs that give more details about the important story elements.

Close Reading in Fiction

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: What to Do with Waste

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

Reading Fiction: Main Idea and Details

With this resource, give your students practice comparing and contrasting the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: The Influence of the Sun

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

Five Finger Story Sequencing

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

Evaluate a Text: What Do You Think?

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Compare and Contrast Elements of a Story

Give your child the tools to decide the difference between fact and opinion with this fun and simple exercise. In this worksheet, children will identify which statements can be proven to be true and which are based on a personal view.

Fact or Fiction Bubble Pop

Help students master summarizing using keywords with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Three Sentence Summary

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Summarizing with Sequence Words

Fiction or nonfiction? Children are introduced to the concept of genre in this early literacy worksheet.

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