Comparing characters in books is a great way to learn more about them, and learn more about how important characters are to books.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

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

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

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

Practice comparing two nonfiction texts in this reading comprehension worksheet! 

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

This exercise is designed to reinforce the concept of comparing and contrasting two texts on the same topic. Your students will write complete sentences with the support of sentence frames.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

Learners practice comparing two stories with similar characters and themes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when comparing and contrasting.

Learn all about superlatives -- words like good, best, yummy and yummiest -- that work great at comparing three or more things.

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this worksheet to show how to compare characters’ thoughts and actions.

Compare and contrast your traits with the character traits of other people.

Comparing and contrasting nonfiction stories is an important skill for fourth and fifth graders. This worksheet gives kids plenty of chance to practice.

Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

To deepen your students’ understanding of dramas, have them utilize their understanding of the key terms to compare and contrast dramas to other genres. They will use information found in a Venn diagram to complete a paragraph frame.