Description
Help students explain similarities and differences with evidence.
- Grades: 1
- 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 containing 2 passages.
- 1 character comparison anchor chart. Teaching guidance is built into the charts and practice directions.
- Scaffolded comprehension questions and answer keys.
- Printable PDF and Google Slides formats.
- Classroom use
- Use anchor charts and selected passages to model the skill during 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
- Pika Gets Blamed — 220L
- A Gift — 170L
- A Dog and His Bone — 260L
- The Mouse and His Corn — 200L
- The Pony Express — 270L
- New Job — 260L
- Two Doors — 320L
- Science Partners — 350L
- The Boy Who Cried Wolf — 380L
- Lost at the Zoo — 350L
- Broken Arm — 420L
- A Hand Up — 440L
- Assessment: Pie Girl — 430L
- Assessment: Muddy Face — 370L
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.1.9.
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Kendra D. –
Fun, low prep, easy to assemble, lots of worksheets to choose from. Students were engaged.
Charleen R. –
I owm a lot of Magicore products. I used this with my struggling 3rd grade readers.
Halle B. –
These Compare & Contrast Reading Passages are exactly what I needed to help my 1st graders understand RL.1.9. The passages are short, clear, and age-appropriate, making the skill of comparing and contrasting both approachable and meaningful for young learners.
Julia Brauns –
This resource really helped my students to understand the concept! Very useful!
Educating with Em –
I loved using this resource with students to practice comparing stories, and I will continue to use this in the future.
Addie Pittman –
This was such a helpful resource when my students were working on comparing/contrasting characters!
Rebecca S. –
These were the perfect addition to my reading centers and rotations! Thank you!
TeachingKwithMsB –
Awesome passages that I was able to send home for students to practice reading and answering the questions. Thank you so much for creating this resource. My students really love doing them.
Julie H. –
My students loved these activities! This is super helpful for teaching comparing and contrasting!
Kellen H. –
Great resource for comparing and contrasting stories and characters!
Kreations by K –
Great product for the beginning of the year! It offered lots of engagement for students.
Katie A. –
Great resource! Students were engaged and challenged!
Rachele P. –
I needed something to supplement this standard as our curriculum wasn’t covering it well. These worked for what I needed, and my students did well with them.
Jennifer S. –
These activities made teaching this standard so much easier. My students were engaged.
Amanda P. –
This was a great resource to use in the first grade classroom.
Mallori K. –
Super fun activity! Kids were fully engaged. Great resource!
Nicole Guldenstein –
My students loved using this resource. They were engaged in the resource and had no trouble getting started independently. It did not take much time to prepare this resource, so it was easy for me to use in a time crunch. I adapted it a bit for my students who needed a little bit more of a challenge.
Megan P. –
These packs are my very favorite to ensure my students have practice opportunities that are very aligned with standards and still have ways to implement differentiation with passages of various levels. Highly recommend!
Kelli Lynn Teaches –
This was a really great resource! Thank you for all of your hard work!
Christina R. –
Hands down my favorite resources and my favorite author! The students enjoy the stories and I love that the students have to use different colors to go back into the text to find their answers. Through using these resources, my students are now in the habit of underlining information they need in a story.
Ashley F. –
Loved using this resource with my students in my classroom!
Jennifer B. –
This resource is great. I was able to use this resource with struggling readers. They had material they could read while still practicing the grade level skill.
Kirsten A. –
Great product that was easy to use and offered lots of great material!
Karen R. –
I love using this resource with my students. The activities are very aligned with the current standard that we are working on.
Mallory K. –
My students love using this resource for quick reviews! This makes review the standard easy!
Amanda Green –
I love MagiCore’s resources. They are perfectly aligned, rigorous and beautiful! I would buy them for any grade I teach.
Melinda Nolen –
This is a great resource to use to practice the skill provided. I use this for my small groups.
Lauren T. –
I love that these are paired passages. They are nice and short and easy for my students to read along with and practice comparing and contrasting.
Kristie Stewart –
These stories are perfect for my firsties. It pushed them to think about the answers.
Regina T. –
This is a great resource to use to review compare & contrast and to have students practice finding text evidence. A much needed skill!
Michelle C. –
When reading the stories, it was a real stretch to compare them. The stories were not similar. Luckily most of the questions were multiple choice. It would have been difficult for first graders to compare. The idea is good but did not like the stories. Probably will not use now.
Taylor H. –
Easy to use with my students and met the standards
Megan Bowman –
Used for differentiation materials.
Valarie O. –
A+
Heidi Lukofnak –
I used this packet with my higher first grade students. This packet is perfect for second graders.
Gabrielle R. –
This resource worked well with progress monitoring my students!
Ms Prichy Prich –
Great extra standards aligned stories
Moeglis Creations –
My students absolutely loved this!
Paula J. –
Students enjoyed reading the short stories and comparing them.
REBECCA D. –
Love this thank you
Dhaara S. –
Great resource to use with my ELL Students.
Tiffany H. –
My students loved working with this resource!
Shine Bright Teaching Resources –
Thanks!
Amy L. –
I used this resource with my students to introduce Comparing and Contrasting. I liked that the reading level was accessible to my second graders so we could focus on comprehension.
Amy T. –
I use this resource in my small group with reading groups. It is a great resource!
Becky K. –
Good about comparing and contrasting stories.
TeachinwithGlitter –
Love!
Shelby H. –
This was perfect for distance learning!
The Spanglish Classroom –
Compare and Contrast is one of my favorite things to teach. This resource was a wonderful way to practice the skill. The passages were engaging for students. =)
Deanna C. –
Great resource!