Grade 4 Comparing Texts Reading Unit - 10 Lessons Integrate and Compare

Help your Grade 4 students master comparing texts the way RI.4.9 and RL.4.9 actually ask for it: integrate information from two texts on the same topic, and compare and contrast the themes, topics, and patterns of events across stories and myths. This complete unit teaches students to read two texts together and understand more than either one alone.

Students learn to find what two texts share and how they differ, combine facts from two nonfiction texts, compare themes across two stories, and compare patterns of events. The keystone Text Comparison Statement gives students one reusable habit that works for research and for literature - a nonfiction mode and a story mode that always use both texts.

WHAT IS INCLUDED

• 52-slide Google Slides / PowerPoint deck, 10 lessons, with full speaker notes
• Worksheet 1: vocabulary, alike-versus-different sorting, combine the facts, quick check (2 pages)
• Worksheet 2: compare the themes, compare patterns of events (2 pages)
• Worksheet 3: independent compare two texts, Text Comparison Statement, self-check (2 pages)
• Exit ticket with two original texts on a topic and a four-task assessment
• 4-point assessment rubric with teaching notes and differentiation guidance

CCSS STANDARDS

RI.4.9 - Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably
RL.4.9 - Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics and patterns of events in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures

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