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Compare & Contrast Informational Texts: Common Core Literacy: 3.ri.9
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...
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: Venn Diagrams With the Pain and the Great One
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Developing Vocabulary Context Clues
[Free Registration/Login Required] This interactive whiteboard lesson is designed to help students develop their vocabulary by recognizing and analyzing context clues with unfamiliar words.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: rl.k.9
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...
Quizlet
Quizlet: R.3 Analyze How and Why Individuals, Events, or Ideas, Develop/interact
Please align to CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.3 Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Arctic Adventures
During this lesson, students will explore plant and animal life found at the Arctic Circle. They will also learn about the dangerously cold climate and the location of the Arctic Circle relative to the school's location on maps and globes.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Color Contrast (Practice)
In this 5-problem quiz/practice, students adjust the contrast as directed to achieve the desired picture.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Comparing and Contrasting Two Stories Using a Double Bubble Map
In this lesson, 1st graders will look at two texts with the "The Three Little Pigs" story. Students will compare the approach that each of the authors takes.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: The Butter Bees
Students will compare the characteristics of the butterbee. Then they will engage in informative writing to share the information.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Speaking, Listening, and Writing Comparing Sentences
In this lesson, 1st graders will look at the structure of both stories to determine how our two stories are the same.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Peas for Two
Students will comparing and contrast parts of "Eat Your Peas, Louise" by Mike Venezia to "Little Pea" by Amy Krause Rosenthal.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Polar Bear Polar Bear
In this lesson plan, students will use a double bubble map to compare and contrast two characters from the story "Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?" by Bill Martin, Jr.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What's Up With All the Sheep?
In this lesson, students will compare and contrast several nursery rhymes related to sheep.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Same but Different
Today, this common student answer will be the accepted one as students try to find different ways to fill in a hexagon.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 7: The Giver
Seventh graders consider how individual perspectives are shaped by knowledge and memory. Through the study of dystopian literature and related texts, 7th graders will explore common themes, characters, and contrasting points of view....
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 4: Pushing Up the Sky
Fourth graders learn that storytelling is a performance art that also transmits knowledge about cultures and life. Through reading different tales from various cultures, 4th graders are able to compare and contrast similar themes,...
Indiana University
Iu: Assimilation: Seeing What We Will
A cartoon that defines the idea of assimilation and contrast. We see only what we want to, showing how the individual takes their cultural view and imposes it in all situations.
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Reading Worksheets: Compare and Contrast: Different [Pdf]
This PDF resource allows for practice distinguishing between familiar, colorful objects which are the same and different. Requires Adobe Reader.
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Compare and Contrast: Things That Go Together [Pdf]
This PDF resource allows for practice finding items that are the similar in a group of colorful items. Requires Adobe Reader.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Compare and Contrast [Pdf]
This graphic organizer includes a Venn Diagram. Students will then answer a guiding question to synthesize the information on the Venn Diagram.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Compara Y Contrasta [Pdf]
Students will compare and contrast information with the aid of this Venn Diagram that has been translated into Spanish. Students will answer a guiding question to help them summarize the content of the diagram.
Other
C.a.s.t.l.e. Technology: Student Page: Compare and Contrast
A lesson plan requiring students to work in groups to create a modern version of a popular nursery rhyme and then compare and contrast the original version with the one they have created.
Other
Design and Colour
A site by watercolor artist John Lovett. He describes the Elements of Art and Principles of Design and gives tips and techniques for watercolor painting and for composition.
Quia
Quia: Compare and Contrast
Answer questions comparing and contrasting two short texts in this five-question quiz.