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Elementary School Nonfiction Compare and Contrast Resources

It's fact vs. opinion statements about interesting animals in this workbook. Kids will also think about how diagrams and images help clarify reading passages.

Text Detective: Weird Animals

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

Winchester Mystery House

Do your students know the difference between Veterans Day, Memorial Day, and Labor Day? This reading comprehension worksheet will teach them about the similarities and differences of the holidays. First, they&rsquo;ll read a passage that provides facts ab

Compare and Contrast: Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Veterans Day

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts

In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

Compare and Contrast: Platypus

What type of change will you get? Use this resource with your students to compare and contrast chemical and physical reactions.

Compare and Contrast: Chemical and Physical Changes

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

Transition Words for Comparing & Contrasting

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

Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Stories: Extinct Birds

Everything a kid needs to read and write a biography. Learn about some inspirational Americans, try your hand at writing someone else's story, and consider what makes heroes so compelling.

American Heroes: Biography Writing

Use this resource with your students to get them making connections between two nonfiction texts on the same topic. They will use a Venn diagram to organize the similarities and differences.

Compare and Contrast Whales

Practice comparing two nonfiction texts in this reading comprehension worksheet!&nbsp;

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: The Influence of Water

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

Nonfiction Text Features Checklist

Use this graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.

Top Hat Graphic Organizer

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

Compare & Contrast Nonfiction Texts: The Underground Railroad

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.

Firsthand or Secondhand Account?

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.

Making Comparisons with a Venn Diagram: Bessie Coleman and Mae Jemison

This informative and inspiring worksheet will have your students compare and contrast two athletes who have been instrumental in changing the world of women’s sports!

Compare and Contrast: Awesome Athletes!

Want to get your kids thinking critically about what they're reading? This fruit-themed Venn diagram alternative will help students to compare and contrast two topics or books during or after reading nonfiction texts.

Fruity Compare & Contrast

Using this Venn diagram, young readers will compare and contrast two thematically similar works of nonfiction.

Venn Diagram: Same Topic, Different Information

In the worksheet The History of African American Spirituals, children read about how African Americans used spirituals during different moments in history, starting from their enslavement to the civil rights movement.

The History of African American Spirituals

Use this handy genre guide to teach students about 14 different genres!

Genre Guide & Reading Challenge

Research, review, and read about classic and contemporary tales for kids! Analyze and explore five books and their movie adaptations in this writing workbook for avid readers and budding film buffs.

From Page to Screen

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.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: The Influence of the Sun

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.

Side-By-Side Nonfiction Text Features 

Learning how to read fluently includes more than just piecing letters together to form words. Kids also have to read from left to right and notice spacing between words. Help your child become a fluent reader by tackling these skills.

Comparing Information

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.

Comparing and Contrasting with Sentence Frames

Good readers are able to compare and contrast key points between two texts on the same topic. With this worksheet, your students will practice this important concept by reading two different texts on feeding pets and identifying the similarities and diffe

Comparing and Contrasting: Feeding our Pets

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.

Response Writing: Comparing Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts

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

Venn Diagram: Compare and Contrast Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of&nbsp;<em>The Great Fire</em>.

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