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.

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

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

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

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between 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.

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.

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.

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.

In this worksheet students will be challenged to compare and contrast the effects of different weather phenomena.

Children compare and contrast two texts with an eye toward setting in this reading comprehension worksheet.

From the topic of roller coasters to the topic of spinach, this kid-friendly worksheet guides a student in comparing their opinion to the opinions of the fictional character named “Jimmy.”

This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.

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

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