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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

Who’s voice is MISSING from the nonfiction text? Use this exercise with your students to analyze missing perspectives in informational text.

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Using paired passages on soil and decomposers, students will compare and contrast information.

In this worksheet, kids will learn about the author's perspective, an essential component of nonfiction comprehension.

Students read short biographies of pilot Bessie Coleman and astronaut Mae Jemison, each a pioneer in her field. They then practice using a Venn diagram to compare the lives and accomplishments of each woman.

Students will practice creating sentences using both like and as, filling in the blanks with figurative language of their own.

Hone key reading comprehension strategies with this engaging five-page worksheet!

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

After students read R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, watch the film adaptation of the movie to compare and contrast the written and film versions of the story!
 

After reading the last sections of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, engage your students in a discussion with these questions!

Read about the history of the Winchester Mystery House, and then answer some comprehension questions.

Use these discussion questions to engage students in thoughtful dialogue as they read chapters 9-12 of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising!