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5th - 8th Grade Common Core Compare and Contrast Worksheets : Page 3

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?

Compare the Fairy Tales

Build your reading stamina and comprehension skills with this worksheet based on “Ashputtel,” the Grimm Brothers’ version of another famous fairy tale.

Extended Reading Comprehension: Ashputtel

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.

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

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

Transition Words for Comparing & Contrasting

Compare and contrast your traits with the character traits of other people.

Comparing My Character Traits

This worksheet gives kids the opportunity to compare and contrast two different versions of the Greek myth of Persephone.

Compare and Contrast Fictional Stories: Persephone

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

Winchester Mystery House

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

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

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.

The History of African American Spirituals

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

Compare and Contrast Information From Different Sources

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

Compare & Contrast Themes

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

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

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

Genre Guide & Reading Challenge

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Thinking About Themes: Reflection Cards

Support key literacy skills with these discussion questions as students continue their reading of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #4

After finishing Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, readers reflect on the major elements of the story with these writing prompts.

Novel Study: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Post-Reading Response Prompts

Use this discussion guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about chapters 5&ndash;9 of The Hunger Games&nbsp;by Suzanne Collins!&nbsp;

Novel Study: The Hunger Games: Discussion Guide #2

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

Head to Head Fiction: Themes

After reading Suzanne Collins&#39; The Hunger Games, have students reflect on the novel and record their responses to these post-reading writing prompts!

Novel Study: The Hunger Games: Post-Reading Response Prompts

Get to know nonfiction text features! Use this resource with your class to compare nonfiction text features for same-topic selections. This resource goes along with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Side-By-Side Nonfiction Text Features 

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

Fantasy Genre Discussion Cards

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 26&ndash;33 of Lucy Maud Montgomery&rsquo;s Anne of Green Gables.

Novel Study: Anne of Green Gables: Discussion Guide #4

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

Compare and Contrast Texts: Same Sub-Genre

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development with these discussion questions for Mildred D. Taylor&rsquo;s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.&nbsp;

Novel Study: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Discussion Guide #1 

Encourage thoughtful discussion after students read chapters 19&ndash;23 of Suzanne Collins&rsquo;s The Hunger Games with this helpful discussion guide!&nbsp;

Novel Study: The Hunger Games: Discussion Guide #5

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Internal & External Character Traits.

Glossary: Internal & External Character Traits

Help students reflect on chapters 5&ndash;8 of&nbsp;Madeleine L&rsquo;Engle&rsquo;s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Novel Study: A Wrinkle in Time: Discussion Guide #2

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