Use this activity with your students to compare themes between fiction texts.

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts

Get your students thinking about themes as they compare and contrast two different picture books of their choice.

During this reading exercise, students will work in small groups to look at various sample passages and sort them based on firsthand or secondhand accounts.

Introduce your students to two myths from different cultures.

After reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba, students compare the movie adaptation to the written story.

Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

Students practice comparing and contrasting two versions of the same piece of text—written and audio/visual—with this graphic organizer!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying Character and Setting.

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

Have students compare and contrast fictional and historical accounts with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

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

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

After finishing the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, give students a chance to watch a movie adaptation and compare the written and visual forms of the story.

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

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

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

Use this organizer to draw comparisons between problems and solutions in fiction texts.

Upon finishing The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, readers compare the written and visual forms of the story in this extension activity!

This worksheet is all about the haunting at the Princess Theater. Kids will read eyewitness accounts and then write some critical thinking responses.

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

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

Use these discussion cards to get your students talking about the elements that are unique to the fantasy genre.

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.

Our writing worksheet guides your budding film buff as he explores theme and character development in the movie Ender's Game.

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

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

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

With this fun comprehension exercise kids will read a few theories about Stonehenge, and then write a response to tell their opinion.

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