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3rd - 7th Grade Nonfiction Compare and Contrast Educational Resources

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

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Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts

Introduce students to some wild and weird types of lightning with this fascinating reading comprehension worksheet!

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Extended Informational Reading Comprehension: Weird, Wild Weather: Lightning 

Introduce learners to three inspiring indigenous women with this four-page reading comprehension worksheet!

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Informational Reading Comprehension: Water Protectors

Comparing and contrasting nonfiction stories is an important skill for fourth and fifth graders. This worksheet gives kids plenty of chance to practice.

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Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Stories: Extinct Birds

Do your students know the difference between Veterans Day, Memorial Day, and Labor Day? This reading comprehension worksheet will teach them about the similarities and differences of the holidays. First, they’ll read a passage that provides facts about ea

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Compare and Contrast: Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Veterans Day

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

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Transition Words for Comparing & Contrasting

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

comparing two nonfiction texts the influence of water

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: The Influence of Water

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

Read about the history of the Winchester Mystery House, and then answer some comprehension questions.

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Winchester Mystery House

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

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Compare and Contrast: Chemical and Physical Changes

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.

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Making Comparisons with a Venn Diagram: Bessie Coleman and Mae Jemison

Students will compare two informational texts on the same topic using a Venn diagram.

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Compare & Contrast Nonfiction Texts: The Underground Railroad

In the worksheet The History of African American Spirituals, children read about how African Americans used spirituals during different moments in history, starting from their enslavement to the civil rights movement.

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The History of African American Spirituals

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

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Feeding Our Pets

Use these questions to encourage critical thinking and support literacy development as students read the first few diary entries of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

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Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #1 

Use this graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast information from different sources of their choosing while researching a relevant topic.

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Compare and Contrast Information From Different Sources

Use this resource with your students to get them making connections between two nonfiction texts on the same topic. They will use a Venn diagram to organize the similarities and differences.

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Compare and Contrast Whales

Research, review, and read about classic and contemporary tales for kids! Analyze and explore five books and their movie adaptations in this writing workbook for avid readers and budding film buffs.

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From Page to Screen

How do different plants respond to hot or cold temperatures? In this hands-on worksheet, students will analyze two different texts, comparing and contrasting details in both texts.

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Hot or Cold? How Temperatures Affect Plants

Use this two-page graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast informational narratives from two different genres.

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Comparing and Contrasting in Nonfiction: Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir

During this reading exercise, students will work in small groups to look at various sample passages and sort them based on firsthand or secondhand accounts.

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Firsthand or Secondhand Account?

Students practice comparing and contrasting two versions of the same piece of text—written and audio/visual—with this graphic organizer!

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Compare and Contrast Written vs. Audio/Visual Forms of a Text

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.

comparing two nonfiction texts the influence of the sun

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: The Influence of the Sun

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

comparing and contrasting feeding our pets

Comparing and Contrasting: Feeding our Pets

Encourage critical thinking with this discussion guide as students read the next set of Anne&rsquo;s diary entries in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

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Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #3 

Use these engaging discussion prompts to support literacy development as students read the next set of entries in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

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Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #2 

Use this graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.

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Top Hat Graphic Organizer

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first chapters of A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

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Book Study: A Night to Remember: Discussion Guide #1

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

nonfiction text features checklist

Nonfiction Text Features Checklist

After reading&nbsp;The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba, students compare the movie adaptation to the written story.

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3rd - 7th Grade Nonfiction Compare and Contrast Educational Resources