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2nd - 6th Grade Compare and Contrast Resources : Page 5

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

Comparing Texts: Separate Traits of a Sub-Genre

Practice making story comparisons and inferences with the help of this useful organizer.

Finding Comparisons

Get to know nonfiction text features! Use this resource with your class to compare nonfiction text features for same-topic selections. This resource goes along with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Side-By-Side Nonfiction Text Features 

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Focus on the Similarities.

Glossary: Focus on the Similarities

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing with Transition Words.

Glossary: Comparing with Transition Words

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn to Compare and Contrast.

Glossary: Learn to Compare and Contrast

Students will have some fun with reading eyewitness accounts of Roswell, and then doing some writing responses on the topic.

Roswell

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing with Transition Words.

Vocabulary Cards: Comparing with Transition Words

Comparing different stories is a great way to help your young reader get started with analyzing texts. She'll compare and contrast two children's favorites.

Compare: Coraline and Terabithia

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

Compare and Contrast Texts: Same Sub-Genre

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying Character and Setting.

Vocabulary Cards: Identifying Character and Setting

Bears Reading Comprehension

When paired with nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between two accounts of the same event.

Venn Diagram: Compare and Contrast Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts

Students will note details of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Common Themes Between Fiction Texts

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Pick out the Parts of a Story.

Glossary: Pick out the Parts of a Story

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

Head to Head Fiction: Protagonists and Challenges

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Sentence Structures for Summarizing.

Glossary: Sentence Structures for Summarizing

This worksheet will enable your readers to examine several books in a series and compare and contrast the main features across the texts.

Using a Chart to Compare Books in a Series

Our worksheet gives your Hobbit fan space to jot down similarities and differences between the book and film for a great exercise in comparing and contrasting.

The Hobbit: Page versus Screen

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Internal & External Character Traits.

Vocabulary Cards: Internal & External Character Traits

Use this graphic organizer to analyze a common topic and theme between fiction texts.

Topic & Theme Between Fiction Texts

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn to Compare and Contrast.

Vocabulary Cards: Learn to Compare and Contrast

In this fun worksheet, read all about the Vodnici and then answer some critical thinking questions about the eyewitness accounts.

Vodnici

"The Scarlet Flower" shares many similarities with a famous Western fairytale. Can you guess which one?

The Scarlet Flower

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Pick out the Parts of a Story.

Vocabulary Cards: Pick out the Parts of a Story

Learn about a scary condition called Old Hag Syndrome. Kids will respond to the reading with some comprehension questions.

Old Hag Syndrome: An Explanation

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Focus on the Similarities.

Vocabulary Cards: Focus on the Similarities

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Focus on the Differences.

Glossary: Focus on the Differences

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

Vocabulary Cards: Character Comparisons

Read the eyewitness accounts of sightings at Russell Hotel, then do some comparing and contrasting using the Venn diagram at the bottom.

Russell Hotel

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