Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Common Theme Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Common Theme Words.

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Two Perspectives.

Use this resource for your students to practice reading and comparing the story elements of two fiction texts.

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

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

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

Support students’ inference skills with this targeted two-page reading worksheet. 

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

After reading the next few chapters of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s Esperanza Rising, engage students in discussion with this two-page guide!

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

Practice analyzing point of view and perspective with this relatable excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons.

Use these picture cards to introduce your students to 16 common theme words.

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

Celebrating the New Year is all about tradition, and it's different in every culture! Many common traditions are actually based on superstition.

Meet the red wolf, an endangered species of animal that was once very common, but in the past 50 year nearly became extinct!

Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

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

Students will read passages and compare the traits of two characters.

Use this exercise to give your students practice using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.