"Compare and Contrast" Reading Lesson Plans & Worksheets

Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Compare and Contrast Similar Themes Across Time Periods

For Students 9th - 10th

In this lesson, you'll learn how to compare and contrast similar themes across time periods and types of works.

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Read Works: Compare and Contrast 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson plan unit on comparing and contrasting through which students learn how to compare two items using key terms, compare and contrast two non-fiction texts on similar topics, and compare and...

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Read Works: Lesson 3: Comparing and Contrasting Two Characters From a Book

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on comparing and contrasting through which students learn how to compare and contrast two items, themselves with a character, and two characters within a text. Lessons use the books...

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Read Works: Fourth Grade: Three Lesson Unit: Compare and Contrast

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on comparing and contrasting through which students compare and contrast two non-fiction articles and two editorials, and write a compare and contrast essay. With free login, users...

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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Compare and Contrast

For Teachers 2nd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify similarities and differences to compare and contrast objects and stories. Lessons are based on the provided text "My Brother and I"...

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Education Oasis: Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This site contains several downloadable graphic organizers for comparing and contrasting reading topics.

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Compare and Contrast Similar Themes Across Time Periods

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

Compare and contrast similar themes from different genres and different time periods.

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Castle Technology: Compare and Contrast: A Web Quest for Grade Two

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

This activity for young readers includes step-by-step teacher directions, student directions, resources, and rubrics. Students read or listen to two or more versions of a fairy tale and then work in groups to update the fairy tale to a...

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Writing Fix: Compare and Contrast Lesson: "I Used to Be, but Now I" Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 8th

After reading/listening to the picture book When I Was Five by Arthur Howard, young scholars will compare themselves today to a time in their life when they were younger. After determining exactly how old you will be in your younger...

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Read Works: Compare and Contrast Kindergarten Unit: Identifying What Is the Same

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to recognize similarities between two pictures. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included. Pictures for the lesson are available to...

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Read Works: Compare and Contrast Kindergarten Unit: Identifying What Is Different

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to recognize differences between two pictures. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included. Pictures for the lesson are available to...

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Compare and Contrast Rubric

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

Students and teachers can assess their own writing with this compare and contrast rubric.

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University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Teaching Strategies (Reading) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards

Printable, fifty-five page PDF file of a staff development manual containing strategies for teaching reading. Includes chapters on vocabulary, main ideas and supporting details, author's purpose, chronological order, plot and conflict...

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Class Flow: Compare and Contrast Lesson

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Compare and Contrast Lesson for 1st Grade Reading in Learning Focused Format.

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Read Works: Super Stats

For Teachers 4th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a paragraph and a chart about the popularity of different types of Girl Scout cookies. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.

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Read Works: Get Ready for Winter

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about animals that hibernate throughout the winter. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.

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Read Works: The Olympics Then and Now

For Teachers 3rd

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read two charts with information about the Olympics in ancient Greece and in modern times. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.

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Read Write Think: Tale of Text Messages: A Character Study of a Tale of Two Cities

For Teachers 9th - 10th

Students engage in a character study of the numerous figures created by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities. They compare and contrast several forms of communication: email, text message, and telephone; complete a character study...

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Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Compare and Contrast

For Students 1st - 5th Standards

A brief graphic organizer to help students visualize the similarities and differences in a piece of informational text.

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Within Context (English 6 Reading)

For Students 5th - 7th Standards

You will learn how to use context (e.g., cause and effect or compare and contrast organizational text structures) to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar or multiple-meaning words.

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Read Works: Telephones: Then and Now

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This short literary text passage is about how telephones have changed over the years. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills...

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Read Works: Winning the Vote

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how Women won the right to vote. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.

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Read Works: Starting Over

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about rebuilding after a disaster. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.

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Read Works: The Homework Hubbub

For Teachers 5th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the effectiveness of homework. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.

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