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.

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 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.

Use this graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.

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.

With this language arts exercise, students will find textual evidence and use it to support an inference.

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

Use this bubble map to compare two things in a visually-appealing way.

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Introduce your students to two myths from different cultures.

Hang out with two seriously challenged love birds, the god Cupid and his human girlfriend Psyche.

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

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

In this engaging reading comprehension worrksheet, learners read an original two-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions.

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.