Grade 3 Comparing Texts Reading Unit - 10 Lessons Compare RL.3.9

Help your Grade 3 students master comparing texts the way RL.3.9 and RI.3.9 actually ask for it: compare and contrast two stories, or two texts on the same topic. This complete unit teaches students to find what two texts have in common and how they are different.

Students learn that comparing means finding what’s alike and contrasting means finding what’s different, how to compare two stories by setting, plot, and theme, and how to compare two texts on the same topic by their points and details. The keystone Compare + Contrast Statement brings naming a likeness with the word both and a difference with the word but into one reusable sentence students can use with any two texts.

WHAT IS INCLUDED

• 52-slide Google Slides / PowerPoint deck, 10 lessons, with full speaker notes
• Worksheet 1: comparing vocabulary, alike and different, compare two texts, quick check (2 pages)
• Worksheet 2: compare two stories, compare two topic texts (2 pages)
• Worksheet 3: independent compare and contrast, Compare + Contrast Statement, self-check (2 pages)
• Exit ticket with two original texts on one topic and a four-task assessment
• 4-point assessment rubric with teaching notes and differentiation guidance

CCSS STANDARDS

RL.3.9 - Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters
RI.3.9 - Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic

All passages are original - not recycled public-domain filler.