Description
These compare and contrast activities give you everything you need to teach comparing and contrasting texts and topics, with digital and printable mini-lessons, anchor charts, reading passages, response sheets, and more.
Teaching Tools
- Comparing and Contrasting chant with teaching video, plus a second teaching video
- Focus posters
- Digital anchor charts: We Can Compare and Contrast, Comparing Fiction and Nonfiction, and Let’s Compare Texts
- Printable anchor charts
- Key words and comparing fiction bookmarks
- Comparing and contrasting printables
Interactive Digital Activities
- Would You Rather, with a directed drawing
- Comparing Pictures
- Comparing Animals
- Sleep Tight Farm read aloud and activity
- Comparing Weather and Climate
- Choose Your Ending
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs with a read aloud video and directed drawings
Practice and Assessment
- 12 leveled reading passages
- Exit tickets
- 7 reading response sheets
What’s Included
- Printable and digital versions for Google Slides, Seesaw, and PowerPoint
- 200 pages
Digital Formats
- PowerPoint: files are in the zip folder
- Google Slides: links are throughout the PDF, so you just click and save
- Seesaw: links are throughout the PDF, so you just click and assign to your class
Differentiation
- Reading passages come in 3 levels, with 4 passages at each level
Good to Know
This is not a set of lesson plans. It is a set of activities to use whenever you focus on this skill, during a unit of study or all year as you read books in class. The activities are not book specific, and the video mini-lessons feature Katie and Amy teaching the skill.
Save with the bundle: this resource is also included in Reading Comprehension Toolkit Bundle.
More Reading Comprehension Toolkits
- Reading Activities for Making Connections
- Reading Activities for Lesson and Theme
- Reading Activities for Nonfiction Text Features
- Reading Activities for Making Inferences
- Reading Activities for Summary and Central Idea
- Reading Activities for Asking and Answering Questions
- Reading Activities for Setting and Illustrations
- Reading Activities for Character Traits and Analysis
- Reading Activities for Making Predictions and Synthesis
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