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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

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

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

Compare & Contrast Nonfiction Texts: The Underground Railroad

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 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

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

Compare and Contrast Elements of a Story

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

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

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

Illustrating Cause and Effects Reading Log

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

Making Connections Between Fiction and Nonfiction

Students will read an excerpt from The Hound of the Baskervilles to discover the great mystery of Baskerville Hall, answering “Stop and Think” fiction comprehension questions throughout the text.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

Reading Response Log

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

Summarizing with Key Words

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

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 use sentence frames to cite quotes from nonfiction texts.

Cite an Author with Introductory Phrases

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

Shifting Points of View

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: We Need Clean Water

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts.

Glossary: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction

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