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

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

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.

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

Students will develop and write different opinions about cats and dogs with this friendly worksheet.

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

After students read S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, have them compare and contrast the greasers and the Socs using this two-page novel study extension activity!

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, students demonstrate their understanding of the novel with these post-reading response prompts.

Practice comparative thinking (and writing!) with this getting-to-know-you worksheet!

Turn up the volume on opinion writing as middle schoolers decide who wins the battle of best music!