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1st - 3rd Grade Fiction Compare and Contrast Educational Resources

Your students will read two short stories, then compare and contrast the characters, problems, solutions, and themes with the help of a graphic organizer.

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Compare and Contrast: Short Stories

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.

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Text Detective: Weird Animals

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

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Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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Comparing Two Fiction Texts

Use this resource for your students to practice reading and comparing the story elements of two fiction texts.

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Comparing Two Stories

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

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Compare and Contrast: Platypus

Learners practice comparing two stories with similar characters and themes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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Compare Similar Stories

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1&ndash;38 of The One and Only Ivan.

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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #1

Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

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Compare and Contrast: Vertebrates and Invertebrates

This selection of questions helps reinforce reading comprehension and highlights various elements of the story.

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Practice Understanding What You Read

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.

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American Heroes: Biography Writing

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

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Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: The Influence of Water

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

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Character Comparison Graphic Organizer

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #2

Here are listed a handful of natural resources, for kids to classify as renewable resources and nonrenewable resources.

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Renewable Resources and Nonrenewable Resources

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #3

This worksheet helps students analyze the ways in which stories are similar and different.

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Story Elements: Compare & Contrast

Use this resource to practice describing characters in a fairy tale. Students will use adverbs, adjectives, and verbs to gain an understanding of the character traits.

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Character Traits in Fairy Tales

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.

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Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: The Influence of the Sun

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

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A Tale of Two Texts

Children compare and contrast two texts with an eye toward setting in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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Comparing Settings from Two Fiction Texts

Learners practice comparing a variety of story elements, including characters, setting, and key events, in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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Comparing Story Elements in Two Fiction Texts

Help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting nonfiction texts using this helpful Venn diagram.

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Nonfiction Compare & Contrast

In this exercise, your students will compare and contrast two fictional stories with the same characters.

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Compare and Contrast Fictional Stories: First Day at the New School

Children practice comparing and contrasting characters in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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Comparing Characters from Two Fiction Texts

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #4

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

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Venn Diagram: Same Topic, Different Information

Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

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The Similarities in the Stories

This literature lesson guides kids towards a deeper understanding of second grade texts through an exploration of character, setting, and plot. Kids will be challenged to answer the who, what, where, when and why of a story, in addition to determining the story's message. Two versions of the same story will be presented in order for second graders to see story elements in action.

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1st - 3rd Grade Fiction Compare and Contrast Educational Resources