Use this resource to help your students familiarize themselves with the concept of literary themes.

Students will have some fun with reading eyewitness accounts of Roswell, and then doing some writing responses on the topic.

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

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

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

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

Good readers are able to compare and contrast key points between two texts on the same topic. With this worksheet, your students will practice this important concept by reading two different texts on feeding pets and identifying the similarities and diffe

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Practice comparing texts that share a distinctive feature within a genre.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

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

This exercise is designed to reinforce the concept of comparing and contrasting two texts on the same topic. Your students will write complete sentences with the support of sentence frames.

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

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

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 these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparative and Superlative.

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 these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

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

Use this organizer to dig deep when comparing and contrasting texts within a genre.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Focus on the Differences.

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.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying Character and Setting.

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

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