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Graphic
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Compare and Contrast [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for comparing and contrasting fiction or nonfiction characteristics.
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Website
The Book Report

Kids reads.com: The Fudge Books by Judy Blume

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This comprehensive site features activities, reviews, and more for Judy Blume's "The Fudge Books." Come and explore this educational gold mine.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Comparing Numbers Using Greater Than and Less Than

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students practice comparing numbers using greater than and less than.
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Handout
Other

Oregon State University: Parts Per Million

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives a good comparison of parts per million, as well as conversions.
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Website
Diffen

Diffen.com

For Students 9th - 10th
Diffen aims to provide a one-stop shop for information that is unbiased, free, concise, and easy to understand.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Comparison and Contrast

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides examples of paragraphs that are arranged by the comparison and contrast organizational structure.
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizers [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
This learning module contains postable questions to show when students will compare and contast content and points of view.
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Interactive
Antonio Salinas and Maria Jesus Egea

Vedoque: Atento

For Students 3rd - 5th
This interactive game is designed to teach students to identify similarities and differences among objects.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Test 9: Ben's Harmonica

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a reading assessment passage. This passage contains a brief biography about Ben Franklin and a few of his inventions.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Introducing the Venn Diagram in the Kindergarten Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for short lessons that introduce the use of Venn Diagrams to kindergarten students. Uses interactive Venn Diagram exercises to make the concept easy to understand. In addition to objectives and standards, this...
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Handout
Scholastic

Scholastic: Judy Blume's Biography

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover more about the life and work of Judy Blume with this resource. Students and teachers will gain a different perspective of this author after exploring this resource.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Arithmetic: Comparison of Fractions, Decimals, and Percents

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Order fractions, decimals, and percents by comparing them in the same form.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Comparing Numbers Originally in Word Form

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students use place value to compare numbers.
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Lesson 3: Comparing and Contrasting Two Characters From a Book

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on comparing and contrasting through which learners learn how to compare and contrast two items, themselves with a character, and two characters within a text. Lessons use the books...
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Comparing Plant and Animal Cells Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th
Take an interactive quiz over plant and animal cells. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Compare and Contrast Kindergarten Unit: Identifying What Is the Same

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which young scholars learn to recognize similarities between two pictures. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included. Pictures for the lesson are available...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Compare and Contrast Kindergarten Unit: Identifying What Is Different

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to recognize differences between two pictures. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included. Pictures for the lesson are available to...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Compare/contrast Kindergarten Unit: Similarities/differences in Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book Long Ago and Today by Rozanne Lanczak Williamsin in which students learn to recognize similarities and differences within a text. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 4.nf Using Benchmarks to Compare Fractions

For Students 4th Standards
Melissa gives her classmates the following explanation for comparing fractions.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Telephones: Then and Now

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This short literary text passage is about how telephones have changed over the years. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills...
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Other

Santa Monica College: Compare or Contrast?

For Students 9th - 10th
Need a little help with choosing whether you are comparing or contrasting two objects? Here you'll find definitions and an interactive "quiz" which will let you try out your skills in choosing the correct word.
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Other

Compare & Contrast Informational Texts: Common Core Literacy: 3.ri.9

For Students 3rd
This downloadable resource developed by Jamie Jacobs and edited by Karen Almond will engage students in comparing and contrasting two sets of paired informational passages. Students will compare and contrast articles about coyotes and...
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Lesson Plan
Teachers.net

Teachers.net: Venn Diagrams With the Pain and the Great One

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Come and check out this awesome lesson plan featuring Judy Blume's book, "The Pain and the Great One." Students will have an opportunity to learn about comparing and contrasting through this Venn diagram lesson plan.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: rl.k.9

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Written by Master Teachers, BetterLesson provides lesson plans for all core subjects. This site provides 15 lessons for RL.K.9: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar...