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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Various Texts With Similar Themes (English I Reading)

For Students 9th Standards

You will learn how to make inferences and draw conclusions about similar themes in various texts by finding supporting evidence within the texts.

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Texas Gateway: Compare and Contrast Similar Themes Across Time Periods

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

Compare and contrast similar themes from different genres and different time periods.

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Texas Gateway: Writing Engaging Stories With Literary Strategies to Enhance Plot

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

Use various literary strategies and devices, including dialogue and suspense, to enhance the plot in a short story.

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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Compare and Contrast Informational Text

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards

This third grade lesson plan engages students in comparing and contrasting paired informational text passages about frogs. Students will use a Venn Diagram to keep track of the information.

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Lumen: Introduction to Writing About Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This is an introduction to writing about literature; it includes a list of learning objectives for writing about literature including finding and using historical sources to discuss the historical context, finding and using literary...

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Compare Narrative and Informational Texts: Practice 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you are going to analyze differences in texts that use visual techniques to present narrative and informational content. You will also look at how information...

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Compare/contrast Themes and Genres in Literary Texts

For Students 7th - 9th Standards

In this lesson, you will learn how to compare and contrast themes and genre across history and cultures.

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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Mechanical Monsters

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

In this lesson plan, learners read the description of the mechanical dog from Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and then work in groups to create and write descriptions of their own futuristic pet.

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Read Works

Read Works: The Yo Yo

For Teachers 2nd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Brendan who learned that it is always better to share his toys. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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Ab Cya: Henry and the Sugarbugs

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

ABCya presents Henry and the Sugar Bugs! A great story about a young boy learning to brush his teeth. This is a great activity to use with an interactive whiteboard.

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Educeri: Compare & Contrast the Overall Structure in Two or More Texts [Pdf]

For Students 5th Standards

A 10-page handout that explains clearly what text structure is and four different types, with accompanying examples. Different types are then presented along with two pieces of informational text and a modeled analysis, then two other...

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Sas: Exploring Ways Authors Use Text Structures to Convey Meaning

For Students 5th - 8th Standards

In this lesson plan, students will explore ways authors use text structures to convey meaning through cause and effect, sequencing, comparison, and more.

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Learning Farm

Learning Farm: Compare and Contrast Literature

For Students 6th - 8th Standards

Students will learn how to compare and contrast passages from different time periods. Analyzing the similarities and differences of in the way authors show a historical time, place, or a character gives the reader a broader understanding...

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Learning Farm

Learning Farm: Common Core Standards: Text Structure in Literature

For Students 6th - 8th Standards

Practice comparing and contrasting the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style. Choose test mode or game mode!

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Education.com: Rl.4.9 Worksheets: Compare and Contrast Similar Themes and Topics

For Students 4th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 29 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard RL.4.9: Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g.,...

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Various Texts With Similar Themes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

In this lesson, you will make inferences and draw conclusions about similar themes across various genres by finding supporting evidence within each of the texts. This task will require you to use your analytical reading skills, and it...

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Text Structure Sort [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read short texts and sort them according to structure: cause and effect, problem and solution, question and answer, compare and contrast, description, and sequence. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Compare and Contrast [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which young scholars use graphic organizers to compare and contrast topics within a text. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Fiction and Nonfiction Sort [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students look at different books, write their titles, and sort them according to whether they are fiction or nonfiction. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Character Compare [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to compare two characters. Materials are included.

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TES Global

Blendspace: Compare Two Texts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This lesson will allow students to identify similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic. Includes a video on comparing and contrasting, printable charts, activities, and an assessment question.

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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Finding Theme

For Teachers 3rd Standards

The students will be able to determine the theme of a story by recalling key details that support the theme.

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Know It All: Types of Conflict

For Teachers 5th Standards

Students will learn about the four major types of conflict. They will use children's books to identify the types of conflict used, as well as create their own narratives using one of the types of conflict.

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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Non Fiction Text Features

For Teachers 5th Standards

Fifth graders will use non-fiction books to identify and explain how text features help them as individual readers.

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