Description
Help students explain similarities and differences with evidence.
- Grades: 3
- Format: Printable pages + Google Slides
Learning Objective
Students will compare and contrast information or story elements using text evidence.
What's Included
- 10 practice passages in 5 pairs and 1 paired assessment with 2 passages.
- 2 model texts, anchor charts, and teacher guidance.
- Scaffolded comprehension questions and answer keys.
- Printable PDF and Google Slides formats.
- Classroom use
- Use model texts for whole-class instruction, practice passages for small groups or independent work, and assessments to check understanding. Rainbow Reading encourages students to color-code evidence and build the habit of returning to the text to support answers.
- Passage titles & Lexile levels
- Tony Mulligan: Missing Toy Cars (untitled passage) — 600L
- Tony Mulligan and the Missing T-Shirts — 570L
- Ms. Delhomme’s Class Trip: 1776 (untitled passage) — 640L
- Ms. Delhomme’s Class Trip to the Launch — 640L
- Oliver Strummer Makes a New Friend — 610L
- Oliver Strummer and the Talent Jitters — 620L
- Camden Willis and the Invisible Cloth — 550L
- Camden Willis and the Bunny Ears — 660L
- The Monster of Oak Crescent: Sally’s Fear — 620L
- The Monster of Oak Crescent: The Sleepover Nightmare — 600L
- Assessment: Horace the Horse and His Jungle Adventure — 580L
- Assessment: Horace the Horse and His Ocean Adventure — 620L
- Model text: Adventures at the Grand Carnival — Lexile level not provided
- Model text: Mystery at the Moonlit Library — Lexile level not provided
Ways to Use
Whole-class instruction, small groups, independent practice, or enrichment.
Preparation
Preview the student pages, choose the activities, and print the pages you need. For digital use, check device and internet access and assign the version you will use.
Standards & Skills
Source-listed alignment: RL.3.9.
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Melissa K. –
This is a great resource for small groups that completely aligns with the standards, especially for standards-based instruction. The students also enjoyed the stories.
Jennifer B. –
I used this as independent practice. I love that they have to go back in the text to prove their answer. The digital aspect is great as well!
Megan T. –
My students enjoyed this resource and found the passages interesting. I liked that the format was easy to follow and required them to find text evidence to support their answers.
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This is such a great resource for the standard comparing texts. Thank you!
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Katharine Joy –
These passages are great for differentiation. There are some more rigorous options and some on grade level options for 3rd grade.
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These passages were just what I needed to help my students understand comparing and contrasting. Thanks!
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My students really enjoyed this resource just as much as I did! The articles were interesting and engaging, which is important when working on the challenging task of comparing and contrasting.
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Melissa J. –
These are engaging texts to compare and contrast 2 texts.
Cassandra P. –
I love the use of different colors to highlight their evidence.
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SimplyMissG –
Perfectly aligned with the third grade compare and contrast standard. I like the consistency of the practice pages. Only thing that could make it better was if the passages were a bit shorter to cut down on printing.
Prickles and Pickles –
My students loved getting to use their colored pencils to find the information and it kept them engaged with the text instead of just circling answers they thought were correct.
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