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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

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

Protagonists and Supporting Characters

Students are asked to distinguish between first and third person narration as well as fiction or nonfiction writing.

First vs. Third Person Narration

Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.

Making Connections Between Fiction and Nonfiction

Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.

Cause and Effect

Your students will love reading this classic fable as they seek to determine the author’s purpose and differentiate fiction from nonfiction.

Author’s Purpose: The Ant and the Grasshopper

Use this graphic organizer to support your students as they distinguish their own viewpoint from those of characters in a fiction text.

Circle of Viewpoints

What happened in the story? Use this helpful graphic organizer to capture the characters, setting, and important events in a fiction text.

Who, What, Where 

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 resource to help your students create questions about their fiction text.

Post Your Questions

This resource will help your students practice an important reading comprehension skill as they read a fiction text and identify cause and effect relationships

Cause and Effect Reading Comprehension: My Day at the Amusement Park

Your students will practice fiction comprehension while they read this short story about best friends and then make connections and predictions based on the reading.

Best Friends Forever Literary Response

After reading Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s <em>The One and Only Ivan</em>, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Fact vs. Fiction

Summarizing stories has never tasted so good! Students can use this yummy ice cream-themed graphic organizer to form short summaries of fiction they read independently or with the class.

Sundae Summarizing

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

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

Make a Mental Picture

How do different plants respond to hot or cold temperatures? In this hands-on worksheet, students will analyze two different texts, comparing and contrasting details in both texts.

Hot or Cold? How Temperatures Affect Plants

Your third graders will love reading this story about Mike, his friends, the kickball game, and the runaway ball! Use this resource with your students as they answer basic comprehension questions about a fiction text.

Reading Comprehension: The Runaway Ball

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: Planting and Growing

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: A Freedom Fighter

Students will practice making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Making Predictions: Before, During, After!

Students will rewrite the narration and point of view of various texts.

Shifting Points of View

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

Sum it Up: Grandpa's Boat

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: We Need Clean Water

Help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting nonfiction texts using this helpful Venn diagram.

Nonfiction Compare & Contrast

Good readers are able to compare and contrast key points between two texts on the same topic. With this worksheet, your students will practice this important concept by reading two different texts on feeding pets and identifying the similarities and diffe

Comparing and Contrasting: Feeding our Pets

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

Writing in Response to Reading

Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

Compare and Contrast: Vertebrates and Invertebrates

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Making Predictions Task Cards

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