Description
Help students explain similarities and differences with evidence.
- Grades: 2
- Format: Printable pages + Google Slides
Learning Objective
Students will compare and contrast information or story elements using text evidence.
What's Included
- 12 practice passages in 6 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
- Little Red Riding Hood — 480L
- The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids — 530L
- Boy-man — 580L
- The Mouse and the Sun — 530L
- Hansel and Gretel — 610L
- The Baba Yaga — 600L
- The Lambikin — 540L
- The Story of the Three Little Pigs — 540L
- Cinderella — 550L
- Tattercoats — 600L
- The Merry Wives — 660L
- The Emperor’s New Clothes — 630L
- Assessment: Snowdrop — 540L
- Assessment: Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree — 550L
- Model text: The Gingerbread Man — Lexile level not provided
- Model text: The French Macaron — 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.2.9.








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I love that these are aligned to Lexile levels and offers a variety of different question types.
Katherine L. –
These are one of my favorite resources to use for reading groups!
LMNOPrince –
This is great reading practice and an excellent source for comparing and contrasting.
Ms Decker –
I loved using this resource to teach comparing and contrasting! Highly recommend!
Jenny S. –
I love these packs! My students are always engaged and I love how I can have them focus on one specific standard.
Cotner’s Corner –
This is a very helpful resource to provide supplemental material for comparing and contrasting texts, which is a challenging skill for students.
Ericka T. –
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April Stough –
This pack was perfect for texts that fit my 2nd grade student needs and abilities!
Stacie L. –
These were great because the students could use their background knowledge with the stories.
Skills with Mrs. Lee –
Great resource for my HS life skills class to review concepts.
Shuntia G. –
My students enjoyed reading these stories! They were engaged.
Jaymi H. –
Really helped my students have extra practice with comparing and contrasting. Thank you!
Emily L. –
Loved this! Great Review for our skill! Thank you!!
Ellen A. –
These were fabulous when we were working on this standard! Great resource.
Alexa S. –
This was a great resource that had my students engaged.
Shannon B. –
This was a great resource and I enjoyed using it in my classroom.
Kids and Curriculum –
My students enjoyed using this — it was a great resource for our class!
Marie T. –
The fables were short and interesting. I like that students had to find evidence and color it.
Taisha R. –
I purchased this resource because our curriculum uses long stories that students do not find interesting enough to pay attention to. These stories held students’ attention and kept them engaged in comparing and contrasting. I loved the breakdown of comparing and contrasting through the questions.
kailey majewski –
Great additional resource for student choice centers.
Pre-K 4 Days –
This was a valuable resource for reinforcing skills.
Cynthia M. –
I enjoyed using this resource for compare and contrast.
Ryen W. –
This was a great way to assess students on comparing and contrasting.
Katie Teves –
I loved this resource and so did my students! Thank you!
Laura Metzenberg-Creative Core Content –
I love these packets. I have them for several standards, and I love all of the options that are given and the way that they very throughly allow me to teach each standard.
Laura M. –
This was a great resource to teach the standard explicitly. they did so well on their benchmarks!
Cristina G. –
I love this resource and use it in small groups to differentiate.
Jessica T. –
This resource aligns greatly with the standard. The passages are highly engaging!
Kayla H. –
I like this idea for compare/contrast at a more advanced level.
Olivia M. –
This resource helped me so much during report card season!
Kellen H. –
Great resource when comparing two versions of the same story!
Olivia Ginder –
My students were engaged in the lesson. It was a great teaching tool.
Tammara C. –
I used these passages in small groups with my fluent readers. With the passages being longer students were able to build reading stamina as well as comprehension. The stories were interesting to my students and provided great connections to what they have seen and heard since they were interested in what they were reading. Students were are able to sharpen their skills with finding text evidence to support the answer. Great resource!
CozyinSecond –
I loved using this resource for my 2nd graders! I will continue to use this resource in future years. Thank you!
Melissa N. –
An amazing resource that is comprehensive and worth the $$!!
Katie A. –
Great resource! Students were engaged and challenged!
Tania L. –
I love this resource! I love that my students have to prove their answers and they have to look back through their stories to find evidence. I love that I can use this as a whole class and in a small group. Thank you so much for creating these.
Adrienne J. –
Another fantastic resource to use with my language learners! Highly recommend.
Brooke T. –
Great Resource! Was extremely helpful within our classroom.
Felicia F. –
This was a great resource to practice this reading standard. Thank you!
Ami B. –
I love this type of resource! Clean, concise, easy to use! My students got great practice out of these!
Sliding Through Second –
This has been one of my best purchases! This was so amazing to have during our comparing and contrasting unit.
Schooled ByStocks –
great resource to use with my second grade students!
Casey C. –
This product was great and helped my students a lot.
Theresa A. –
This was a great resource to use in the classroom to aid our compare/contrast lessons.
Irma C. –
It is so difficult to find passages to use when comparing and contrasting. These were perfect with which to practice this important skill.
Jennifer G. –
This is a great example of a way to meet your students standards when curriculum isnt able to help them.
Doreen B. –
Great tool to use for students to understand compare and contrasting.
Brittany K. –
I love this resource, easy to use and the students love it.
Alexa Zielinski –
I really love these packs. I do wish the text was a little shorter though so my students could read it together.