Respond to a Story by Comparing Two Characters

Read the story or poem together, then have your child underline the sentences they plan to use before they write. After the response, check that each quote is copied word for word and followed by an explanation.

Read a made-up story about cousins building a raft and compare them with a trait and a quote each. To compare is to tell how two things are alike and different. A trait is what a character is like. The directions on the page read: Read the Example and the story. Then, turn the page and answer the questions. On page 2: In Part A, write a trait and a short quote for each cousin, and one way they are alike. Then, in Part B, write your response on the 5 lines. The answer key covers the questions on page 2.

Yes, both. We made it for 5th Grade informative writing, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with text evidence. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Text evidence is a detail or a quote from a story, poem or article that supports what you say about it. W.5.9.A asks 5th graders to draw evidence from literature, for example to compare two characters or explain a theme.

Copy it word for word inside quotation marks, then explain how it supports the point. The theme page asks for two quotes from a story about neighbors fixing up an empty lot, and the river poem response asks for one quoted line.

Two narrators notice different things. The bake sale page has a seller and a buyer tell the same morning, so children sort which details each telling has and explain how the two points of view differ, with a detail from each.

Yes. All 7 sheets have an answer key. Where children copy a quote, the key gives a sample and accepts any quote that shows the same idea.