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

Comparing and contrasting nonfiction stories is an important skill for fourth and fifth graders. This worksheet gives kids plenty of chance to practice.

After reading Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.

Help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting nonfiction texts using this helpful Venn diagram.

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.

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

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

Main characters would be lost without their supporting characters! Use this reading comprehension worksheet to compare and contrast characters from classic novels using a graphic organizer and paragraph excerpts.

After students read R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, watch the film adaptation of the movie to compare and contrast the written and film versions of the story!
 

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

Use this graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.

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

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

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

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

Use this worksheet to show how to compare characters’ thoughts and actions.

Students will compare two informational texts on the same topic using a Venn diagram.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Practice making inferences about stories with the help of this writing organizer.

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

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

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

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

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