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Comparing and Contrasting

A Grade 2 ELA worksheet to practice comparing and contrasting using stories and everyday objects.

Grade 2 ELA ReadingReading Comprehension StrategiesComparing and Contrasting
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.9CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.9

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ELAGrade 2ComparingContrastingReading Comprehension
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Comparing and Contrasting

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Read each question carefully and follow the instructions to compare and contrast.

Read the story below and then answer the questions.

Lily and Tom were best friends. Lily loved to draw pictures of flowers and butterflies. She used bright colors like pink, yellow, and blue. Tom loved to build with blocks. He made tall towers and long bridges. Sometimes, Lily would draw a picture of a flower for Tom's block city. Sometimes, Tom would build a small house for Lily's paper dolls.

1. How are Lily and Tom alike?

2. How are Lily and Tom different?

Fill in the Venn Diagram to compare apples and oranges.

U Apples Oranges

Things only apples have:  

Things only oranges have:  

Things both apples and oranges have:  

3. Which of these is a way a cat and a dog are ALIKE?

a

They bark.

b

They meow.

c

They are pets.

d

They fly.

4. Which of these is a way a bird and a fish are DIFFERENT?

a

They both eat food.

b

Birds fly and fish swim.

c

They both have eyes.

d

They are both animals.

Complete the sentences using words that compare or contrast.

5. A bike has two wheels,   a car has four wheels.

6. Both a cat and a dog are furry, but a cat says meow and a dog says  .

7. You can eat an apple   you can eat a banana.

8. Think about two of your favorite toys. How are they alike? How are they different?