Comparing Two Non-Fiction Texts

Year 6 EnglishReading Comprehension2 pages

About this worksheet

Two opposing texts, Why We Need Zoos and Animals Belong in the Wild, sit at the centre of this two-page Year 6 comparison task. Pupils sort nine lettered statements into a Venn diagram and decide which belong to Text 1, which to Text 2 and which to both. The statements mix claims, facts, opinions and language choices, from breeding programmes to emotive language. The answer key lists three letters for each region. It fits the England National Curriculum objectives on comparing texts and on fact and opinion.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Reading - comprehension

“Making comparisons within and across books”

The whole Venn sort asks pupils to compare what each zoo text says and how it says it.

Reading - comprehension

“Identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning”

Statement D, about strong emotive language, makes pupils look at how each text persuades.

Reading - comprehension

“Distinguish between statements of fact and opinion”

Statement B is worded as a fact and statement F as an opinion, so pupils sort both kinds.

Reading - comprehension

“Retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction”

Pupils record what they find in two non-fiction texts in a single diagram.

Reading - comprehension

“Provide reasoned justifications for their views.”

Putting a letter such as G in the overlap needs a reason from both texts.

What's inside this worksheet

Compare: Zoos For and Against

Pupils write each letter from A to I in the correct part of the diagram. Statement A says zoos save endangered species, and statement C says animals suffer stress in small enclosures.

Answer Key

Three letters for Text 1 only, three for Text 2 only and three for the overlap.

How teachers use it

Persuasive writing unit

Use it after reading both zoo texts and before pupils plan an argument of their own.

Card sort

Cut the nine statements into cards so pairs can argue over each placement before they commit.

Fact and opinion check

Pull out statements B and F and ask the class which one could be proved.

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