ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Cover to Cover: Comparing Books to Movies
A 7-lesson unit where middle schoolers critically analyze how a film adaptation portrays a novel to see what impact it had on the retell of the story. They then design a movie DVD cover and write a DVD insert based on what they have...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Venn Diagram, 2 Circles
A printable Venn diagram to use when comparing and contrasting two things or topics. Directions on how to use this graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are also provided.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Cinderella Stories From Around the World
In this lesson plan, 5th graders will compare and contrast different versions of the fairy tale "Cinderella." Students will use a compare and contrast chart chart. After the shared readings, students will use all the elements of a fairy...
Utah Education Network
Uen: 1st Grade Act. 02: How Do You Feel Today?
This instructional activity engages students in self-assessing their feelings. Students will make a graph about their feelings and then listen to Dr. Seuss' book, My Many Colored Days. Students will reflect on the book, make a similar...
Read Works
Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 1: Identifying What Is the Same
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to identify similarities between two pictures.
Read Works
Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 3: Similarities and Differences in a Text
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to identify similarities and differences using the book Long Ago and Today by Rozanne Lanczak Williams.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Prose Constructed Response Organizer [Pdf]
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for preparing a constructed response that must compare three sources: two articles and a video.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Compare Central Idea Across Mult Texts [Pdf]
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for comparing a central idea across multiple texts.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Within Context (English 6 Reading)
You will learn how to use context (e.g., cause and effect or compare and contrast organizational text structures) to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar or multiple-meaning words.
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Comparing Plants and Animals
A tutorial that compares and constrast plants and animals. Explore how living things their obtain basic needs, protect, support, and reproduce. A PDF file of the tutorial is available.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Rl.3.9: Compare and Contrast Themes, Settings, and Plots
Links to 16 lessons that focus on skills within third grade reading standard RL.3.9.
Other
Curriculum Associates: Comparing and Contrasting Texts [Pdf]
In these activities, students are asked to compare and contrast two versions of each event with two pieces of writing that are about the same topic. Teaching notes with answer keys are provided as well.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Percent as a Means to Compare Fractions
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad uses fractions and percents to compare the contest results of the Squitters, little creatures who love to jump.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Goody Goody Gumdrop! Building Structures Are Fun!
In this lesson, the children will be building a physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object, such as triangles, helps it function. At the end, the children will test their gumdrop structures and the class will collectively...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Comparison Contrast Essay
This three-page essay provides an example of an comparison-contrast essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Earth and Moon
Students are asked to compare and contrast the earth and the moon.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: More or Less Estimator
This activity allows the user to practice estimation skills by determining if a given amount is more or less than the number of objects shown, the length of a curve, or the area of a shape. An interactive activity and teacher resources...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Comparison Estimator
This activity allows the user to compare to quantities by estimating. Students use three types of estimations: counting, length, and area. An interactive activity and teacher resources are included.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Comparison/contrast Feet [Pdf]
A graphic organizer where students write similarities on one foot and differences on the other.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Square Compare and Contrast Diagram [Pdf]
A graphic organizer where students compare and contrast items by writing similarities and differences in overlapping squares, similar to the circles on a Venn Diagram.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Compare & Contrast as an Idea Springboard
In this Writers Workshop lesson, students read Frog and Toad stories by Arnold Lobel to learn about writing that compares and contrasts to things. This format can be used to write about many different topics in curricular areas and...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Patterns of Organization: Compare and Contrast
This learning module provides an explanation of the compare and contrast text structure. An explanation of the compare and contrast text structure is provided, and the compare and contrast text structure is demonstrated in a video...
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Dinosaur Land [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for Dinosaur Land is provided on these pages. Two character roles are needed in this play that reinforces the difference between dinosaurs that are omnivores and carnivores.