In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

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

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying key ideas by looking for repeated words and phrases in a text.

Practice making inferences about stories with the help of this writing organizer.

Read this passage about a rainy spring break to boost your character analysis skills!

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

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Use this half-sheet graphic reading log to help students write simple summaries.

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

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

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Get excited about going into nature as you read this passage about a camping trip!

Children will practice using nonfiction text features as they read and interpret a passage about extreme weather.

Young readers will refer to a passage from The Secret Garden to answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

One of the first questions young readers should ask is, "Who is telling this story?" Here students will practice spotting different points of view by identifying which point of view sentences are written from and then writing sentences of their own.

If your students struggle with how to compare and contrast texts, this worksheet can be used for reteaching or extra practice.