Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

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

Use this Venn diagram graphic to help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting settings.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

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.

Pretend you're spending the holidays in France as you discover the Christmas customs and culinary delights of a country half a world away!

How are Little Red Riding Hood and the Big, Bad Wolf different? Do they share any similarities? Challenge your young readers to hone their reading comprehension skills as they compare and contrast characters in a book or story with this Venn diagram works

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn to Compare and Contrast.

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.

Students will note features of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

This worksheet will enable your readers to examine several books in a series and compare and contrast the main features across the texts.

Learn all about Sinterklaas (sound familiar?) and the fun traditions that kids in the Netherlands look forward to every Christmas!

Have you ever heard of Julbock, the Christmas goat, or Tomten, the gift-giving Christmas elf? Learn how to celebrate Christmas in Sweden!

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparative and Superlative.

Use this graphic organizer to analyze a common topic and theme between fiction texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

Venn diagrams aren't just a math tool; they make great charts for reading comprehension too!

Use this Venn diagram to help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting characters.

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

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Focus on the Differences.

Did you know that you could celebrate Christmas in December and then fly to Russia to celebrate the same holiday in January?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Compare and Contrast Fictional Characters.

Get inspired by the traditions of the Philippines this holiday season!

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

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