27 task cards with short passages for comparing and contrasting, promoting critical thinking and reading comprehension skills. Includes print and digital versions, differentiation options, and is suitable for 3rd-5th grade. Part of a money-saving bundle. Great for enhancing reading skills.
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27 compare and contrast task cards with short passages – These are great for encouraging students to use their critical thinking skills and strengthening their reading comprehension!
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NOTE: This resource uses American English and is not editable.
Comparing and contrasting is a challenging reading skill. Each of these 27 cards features a short passage along with two text-dependent questions. To add more rigor, several of the cards may also require some inference for full understanding. Each passage is focused either on people, places, events, or a nonfiction topic.
Use digitally as Google Slides or Easel. Easel and Google Slides are identical. PLUS an extra Google Slides activity to utilize a Venn Diagram!
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โ๏ธ “Love, love, love these! I’ve used these in centers and in small group intervention practice. I’ve used them with Venn Diagrams and T-charts…they work well for both.” -Lisa H.
โ๏ธ “I thought this was a fun activity for practicing comparing and contrasting skills with my students. I am always looking for new ways to present information. Sometimes it is hard to find activities that are not too simple for my upper elementary students. This is a great addition to my comparing and contrasting unit. Thank you!” -Lindsay M.
โ๏ธ “These task cards were awesome! Was able to use a card as a warm up for students and in centers. The cards also promote critical thinking, which is a huge plus! Thanks!!” -Jade F.
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About the Author
These passages were written by me, Rachel Lynette. I am a published author of over 120 nonfiction books for children on a variety of subjects, as well as several teacher resource books. I have written for publishers such as Harcourt, Thompson-Gale, Rosen, Childrenโs Press, Evan-Moor, Kagan, and several others. These passages reflect more than a decade of professional writing experience.
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This resource was created by Rachel Lynette and Cassi Noack for Minds in Bloom INC., all rights reserved. It may be used by the original purchaser for single class use only. Teachers may distribute this product in email, through google classroom or over the Internet to their students (and parents) as long as the site is password protected. In other words, you may distribute it to your own students, but may not put it on the Internet where it could be publicly found and downloaded.
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SKU: 201755
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Candice P. –
This resource provided additional practice and support for my class. It aligned perfectly with my lesson. My students were actively engaged and excited to complete this activity. Thank you.
Eleanor B. –
It was a great resource and well digitised (sadly kind of unusual on this website!). My grade 8-9 students have missed a lot thanks to Covid so this was a good easy activity to introduce the skill of comparing and contrasting. Some would have found it too easy but it was good for those who needed it. I didn’t force the more advanced student to do it. Maybe too many ‘scenarios’ at the same level of difficulty? You definitely get a lot of scenarios so thank you! But none that will extend the learning beyond the first level, so I did wind up deleting about half of the resource.
SpeechBySaraPaige –
Utilized to support skill in speech therapy. This material is easy on the eyes and functional across a variety of therapeutic targets. Wonderful support to increase complexity of comparing/ contrasting goals from objects to more academically relevant materials.
McKenzie Reiners –
Great resource! My students did great with it and it was easy to use.
Maria G. –
Thank you so much for taking the time to create this resource. It was great to use with groups of students.
Kelly G. –
This is great resource to use when targeting the skill of comparing and contrasting using literacy based instruction.
Mersedes S. –
Valuable resource even for my fifth graders. The kids who knew how to compare and contrast were able to fly through it. While those who didn’t, were able to understand it in easier terms.
Stephanie C. –
I used this resource for my students who had an IEP. This resource helped them to practice their objective.
Farmhousekansasteaching –
This resource was very helpful to review for my 5th graders. I love that it is digital and printable.
Montessorikiwi –
This resource was good to introduce the words compare and contrast and the task cards had clear examples of both in each. Non US teachers should be aware that some of the contexts are not always appropriate to non US children so may require pre teaching about culture in the US.