Compare+and+Contrast

Compare and Contrast TEKS
 * Identify similarities and differences across texts such as in topics, characters, and themes (3);
 * Compare and contrast the settings in myths and traditional folktales.


 * Read "Angel of the Battlefield" to your students. Discuss the passage with your students. Tell them that they will be reading another story about a famous person. Tell them that while they are reading they need to be thinking about how the ladies are alike and different. Explain that when we find out how two things are alike we are comparing them. When we find out how they are different we are contrasting them. Tell students that clue words to signal comparrisions include words such as like, both, same, alike, and similar. Clue words that signal how things are different include but, unlike, different, however, and whereas. Have students read "The Lady with the Lamp" in pairs. Create a class Venn Diagram in order to compare and contrast the two scientists.

Compare two biographies/autobiographies

Finding how two or more things are alike and how they are different is called comparing and contrasting. Comparing is finding how people, places, objects, and events are alike. Contrasting is finding how they are different. · Clue words that signal how things are alike are both, same, like, alike, and similar. · Clue words that signal how things are different are but, unlike, different, however, and whereas. · If there are no clue words in a reading passage to signal a comparison or contrast, think about the people, places, objects, or events you read about. Ask yourself, “How are they alike? How are they different?”


 * Just fyi-on TAKS the two sides always relate (or at least have in the past) so if they are looking for something to fill in the missing line it would be kinda like the opposite of whatever is across from it on the other side of the venn diagram. Sometimes it helps to make a t-chart first and then turn it into a venn diagram.

Additional Resources:

[|Compare and Contrast Extensive Lesson Plans.pdf] [|Compare and Contrast 1st Grade.ppt](fairly easy but would be great for low students) [|compare contrast story and questions.doc] A short story with TAKS formatted questions to match. You will have to scroll down a few pages to get to the good stuff. There is also a rubric to use if you want to ahve them create their own Venn Diagrams. [|compare and contrast story elements.pdf] [|what do they have in common.htm] [|What Doesn't Belong Version 3.mht]

Non Fiction Inner and Outer Planets Book on Pearson, has a graphic organizer to go with it.

[|Compare and Contrast Lesson Plan.pdf] [|Compare and Contrast Lesson Plan 2.pdf]

Additional Links:

[|Short Story and a Few Comparrison Questions] [|An Explanation and Examples of making Comparrisons and Contrasting] [|Students Match Boxes that Show Comparrisions]

Assessment: Second Nine Weeks: Week Nine we will assess this skill on the Reader's Theatre Project.