Activity 2 directs students to reread specified pages in Oh Say Can You Say What's the Weather Today? and read specified pages in Whatever the Weather, then "discuss the different types of precipitation described on the pages." Activity 1 asks students to find pictures of habitats and describe their weather, and students complete picture-based activity pages that require identifying rain, snow, and hail from illustrations.

Activity 3 asks students to look through books and describe communities found in the illustrations, to select three books with different types of communities, copy each book title, and draw a simple illustration of each community. The activity then directs students to "discuss ways the communities are similar and ways they are different," which prompts direct comparison of texts on the same topic (communities) using illustrations and descriptions.

Students are asked to compare two illustrated communities on the "Where Would You Want to Live?" page by marking Xs on problems in one picture and circling positive features in the other, which requires noticing differences and similarities in illustrations. An extension asks students to look through a variety of picture books and discuss whether the settings portray safe/happy communities or not, prompting comparison of settings across texts. The activities also ask students to explain what makes each community safe or not, encouraging descriptive comparison.

Students read two related nonfiction picture books (Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt and Over and Under the Pond) and are prompted to compare their covers and illustrations. Guided questions ask students to describe how the writing in the two books is similar (alternating opposites) and to identify similarities and differences in characters. Activity 4 directs students to identify rocks in the illustrations of both books and to discuss similarities and differences in illustrations and descriptions.

Students are asked to look through books and identify ways the characters use their senses (Activity 3). The lesson specifically names two books, Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See and Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear, which present characters using senses and give students two texts on a similar topic to examine. Students also record sensory details in the Nature Walk and on activity pages, practicing identification of sensory descriptions and illustrations.

Students receive a sample "Party Planner" sheet and create their own Party Planner, giving them two texts on the same topic to compare. Game 1 explicitly instructs students to compare their own party plan with the sample to find similarities and differences. The Party Planner table (senses, ideas, supplies) gives concrete descriptive elements that students can compare across the two texts.

Activity 2 asks students to "look online for pictures and descriptions of holidays and traditions around the world" and to "discuss with your child any similarities and differences you find" between those descriptions and celebrations in the home. The Skills list explicitly includes "Compare and contrast customs and traditions of families in communities around the world (SS)," and Activity 1 directs students to "read about the holidays in encyclopedias or on websites." Activity 5 asks students to include a holiday they "read about that is celebrated in another country," supporting work with multiple informational sources.

Students are asked to 'look through books/websites on different countries and identify the modes of transportation,' and to examine pages in A Life Like Mine to find examples of transportation in pictures. The opening questions include 'What makes things the same? Different?' and a listed skill is to 'Recognize that families and groups have similarities and differences,' which prompts attention to similarities and differences. Some activities ask students to compare scenarios (e.g., deciding which mode fits different environments) and to gather information about a chosen form of transportation from books or online.

Students are prompted to read about a child from another country (in A Life Like Mine or other books/Internet) and then complete pages that compare location, food, hobbies, homes, clothing, transportation, and holidays. The activity pages guide students to write parallel sentences such as "I live in ______" and "_____ lives in ______" and a prompt for "One way that we are the same is…," which requires identifying similarities and differences across those categories.

The lesson explicitly asks students to compare Wemberly and Chrysanthemum (Activity 2) and to discuss how both characters change over the course of their stories. Students complete a "Characters Change" activity page where they write how Wemberly was at the beginning and at the end and respond to prompts like "Before Wemberly was ____, but now she is ____." The skills list also includes "Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories," which directs students to identify similarities and differences between the two texts.

The lesson asks the child to recall Wemberly and Chrysanthemum's problems and to read three stories (Chrysanthemum, Wemberly Worried, What Do You Do With a Problem?) and place their beginning, middle, and end, providing material for cross-text comparison. Activity 5 explicitly asks the child how the boy in What Do You Do With a Problem? is similar to and different from Wemberly, prompting students to identify similarities and differences between two characters from different texts. The lesson includes prompts and pages (Characters Change, Beginning/Middle/End) that require students to describe and compare character traits and changes across stories.

Students complete Venn-diagram activities that ask them to write similarities and differences between Chrysanthemum and Wemberly, explicitly prompting consideration of personalities, situations, families, and illustrations. Students complete a second Venn diagram comparing Wemberly and the boy from What Do You Do With a Problem? and a "Two Stories, Same Problem" page where they dictate three-sentence summaries and answer questions about how the characters' situations are similar and how the authors take different approaches.

Activity 1 asks students to compare who is telling The Raft with What Do You Do With a Problem? and to find sentences with "I," prompting direct comparison of narrator across two texts. Activity 7 gives students a Story Elements page and a matching exercise that requires students to identify characters, settings, problems, and solutions for four stories (The Raft, Wemberly Worried, Chrysanthemum, What Do You Do With a Problem?), which provides structured information for comparing texts. The included comparison chart/image and title-character/problems-and-solutions matching task present summaries and illustrations for all four stories to support cross-text comparison.

The Skills section explicitly lists identifying basic similarities and differences between two texts as a learning target. In Activity 3, students are asked to discuss multiple stories read in the unit (e.g., What Do You Do With a Problem?, Chrysanthemum, The Raft, Wemberly) and consider how characters experienced positive change, prompting comparison across texts. Activity 1 asks students to identify cause-and-effect situations in the stories they read, including labeling effects as positive or negative, which requires referencing events from different texts.

Activity 3 has students choose two different first-person sections (e.g., Hori, Caius, Marcus, Robert) and prompts them to point out differences in setting, clothing, and illustrations and to answer comparative questions about similarities and differences. Activity 4 asks students to draw a historical young person and themselves and complete prompts such as "One way the young person is different from me" and "One way we are the same," requiring explicit comparison of descriptions. Activity 5 and the four-column grid require students to compare homes, transportation, clothing, and school across time periods using images and text.

The Option 2 activity directs students to choose a historical time period and "compare it to her own time," selecting three cultural elements to examine. For each element students write or dictate an "In the past __________" sentence on the left and a "Today __________" sentence on the right and then illustrate each side on the Elements of Culture pages. The lesson requires students to produce paired descriptions and matching illustrations for past vs. today for multiple cultural elements.

Activity 4.1 has students reread multiple short readers (The Club, At Camp, King Hank, Spring Has Sprung!, The Raft Trip) and then asks them to name or point to different characters and talk about the different things those characters do (e.g., swim, camp, sing, go on a raft trip). Students are asked which reader is their favorite and why, prompting comparison across the set of texts.