Differentiating between facts and opinions is a key fourth grade skill to master and is helpful in identifying the author’s purpose in a text. Use this activity to give your students extra practice differentiating between these two kinds of sentence

This worksheet provides students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. After reading and completing Part 1 as a class, challenge your students to complete Part 2 on their own or with a pa

Students read short biographies of pilot Bessie Coleman and astronaut Mae Jemison, each a pioneer in her field. They then practice using a Venn diagram to compare the lives and accomplishments of each woman.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when comparing and contrasting.

Discover how events are related to their outcomes in this worksheet!

After students read R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, watch the film adaptation of the movie to compare and contrast the written and film versions of the story!
 

Learn how frogs and butterflies transform as they grow into adults!

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

A monkey, a fruit tree, and reading comprehension! Kids learn a Brazilian fairy tale and strengthen comprehension skills with this worksheet.

This resource will help your students practice an important reading comprehension skill as they read a fiction text and identify cause and effect relationships

Use this worksheet to show how to compare characters’ thoughts and actions.

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.

Learners will practice identifying the problem and solution in texts in this reading comprehension worksheet.