Kids compare and contrast two famous fairy tales with a Venn diagram in this worksheet.

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.

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

Get your students thinking about themes as they compare and contrast two different picture books of their choice.

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

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

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

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

Learners practice comparing a variety of story elements, including characters, setting, and key events, in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Upon finishing The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, readers compare the written and visual forms of the story in this extension activity!

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

Use this handy genre guide to teach students about 14 different genres!

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

When paired with nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between two accounts of the same event.

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

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

Use this activity with your students to compare themes between fiction texts.

Read some fictional "eyewitness accounts" of the haunted London Underground, then write your own version of a ghost sighting!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

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