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3rd Grade Compare and Contrast Worksheets

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

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

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

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

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Compare Similar Stories

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

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

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Character Comparison Graphic Organizer

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

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

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Practice Understanding What You Read

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Story Elements: Compare & Contrast

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Comparing Characters from Two Fiction Texts

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

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Comparing and Contrasting: Feeding our Pets

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

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 graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.

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Top Hat Graphic Organizer

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts

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Compare Story Elements

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.

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3rd Grade Compare and Contrast Worksheets