Compare Two Texts About Fossils

Read Text A, then Text B, and ask your child what new thing they learned from the second text. Use the chart to compare. Check with the answer key.

Compare key points in two original texts about how fossils form and fossil hunters. To compare two texts is to find what they both tell. To contrast them is to find what only one tells. The directions on the page read: Read Text A and Text B. Both are about the same topic. Then, turn the page. On page 2: Write three key points from each text in the chart. Then, circle the letter of the best answer. Then, write one fact on each line. The answer key covers the questions on page 2.

Yes, both. We made it for 3rd Grade compare and contrast, 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 compare two texts. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

A key point is an important fact in a text. Two texts on the same topic often give different key points, like one text about how hummingbirds eat and another about where they nest.

It shows children that no single text tells everything. Finding what both texts say and what only one says is the RI.3.9 skill.

Have your child read the key points chart across. If a fact shows up under Text A but not under Text B, it belongs on the Only in Text A line.

Yes. All five sheets have an answer key, with sample key points for the chart.

To compare is to tell how two things are alike. To contrast is to tell how they are different. A Venn diagram shows both, with what is alike in the middle and the differences in the outside parts.

In 3rd grade, children compare the themes, settings and plots of stories by the same author about the same or similar characters (RL.3.9). Keeping Pip or Captain Fluff in both stories makes it easier to see what changed from one story to the next.

They write three key points from Text A and three from Text B, answer questions about the texts, then write one fact found only in Text A and one found only in Text B. This is the RI.3.9 skill of comparing the most important points in two texts on the same topic.