"The Scarlet Flower" shares many similarities with a famous Western fairytale. Can you guess which one?

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

As students read multiple nonfiction books about a topic, they’ll begin to learn more. Help them organize their notes and keep track of the new information they're learning with this fun book-themed graphic organizer!

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.

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

Our worksheet gives your Hobbit fan space to jot down similarities and differences between the book and film for a great exercise in comparing and contrasting.

Learn about a scary condition called Old Hag Syndrome. Kids will respond to the reading with some comprehension questions.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Pick out the Parts of a Story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Sharing Opinions About Stories.

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

Practice making story comparisons and inferences with the help of this useful organizer.

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

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

The more books you read about a topic, the more you learn! This worksheet helps students compare and contrast information they learn from multiple books about the same topic.

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

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

Use this Venn diagram to help kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting events in a story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Sharing Opinions About Stories.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Two Perspectives.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Pick out the Parts of a Story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Real or Not?

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Focus on the Similarities.

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

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

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

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

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