Read Works
Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Compare/contrast Genres
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use fiction and nonfiction books from a classroom library to identify the similarities and differences between fiction and nonfiction and to create a Venn diagram...
Cengage Learning
Themes, Perspectives and Issues/edwin Arlington Robinson
In depth site including comparisons, contrasts, form, style and artistic conventions. Great research site!
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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.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Now & Then
Inspired by Gene Barretta's Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin this fantastic cross-curricular activity has students comparing or contrasting a particular topic of history with how things are in this day and age.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: New Leadership [Pdf]
"New Leadership" is Harold Washington's Acceptance Speech as Mayor of Chicago on April 12, 1983. It is followed by an assignment which requires students to provide evidence from the text; it includes comparing Washington's election as...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: It's Double Bubble Time!
School isn't always what we expect it to be! With teacher guidance, students will use a double bubble map to compare and contrast two similar characters from two books.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Comparing Two Cinderella Stories
Students will compare two characters and list their comparisons on a graphic organizer using modern Cinderella stories. This lesson includes a detailed lesson plan for guided practice and partner work, and a video of students engaged in...
English for Everyone
Reading Comprehension Assessment: "A Streetcar Named Desire" [Pdf]
Read Theory provides a free reading comprehension assessment that is designed for middle grade students. Five multiple choice questions and two extended inquiries are included on this nonfiction reading assessment that addresses two...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure Worksheets
This site provides several assignments and graphic organizers related to identifying text structures. Analyzing the following types of text structures are provided: main idea and supporting details; cause and effect; chronological order;...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure Activities
Numerous links related to analyzing text structures are provided on this site. Lesson plans, PowerPoint slides, graphic organizers, rubrics, and quizzes related to text structures are also provided to support students while analyzing...
Cengage Learning
Houghton Mifflin College Division: Sandra Cisneros
Superb analysis including the author's themes, perspectives, form, style, comparison, and contrast. Good research material here!
Georgetown University
Georgetown University: Jean Toomer (1894 1967)
Excellent research site! Includes theme, perspective, form, style,audience, comparison, and contrast of the famous author's work.
Georgetown University
Georgetown University: Countee Cullen (1903 1946)
Includes form, style, comparison and contrast of Countee Cullen's work. Also has links to famous contemporaries of the era.
Georgetown University
Georgetown University: Langston Hughes (1902 1967)
Excellent research site on Langston Hughes. Includes theme, perspective, form, style, audience, comparison and contrast of the famous Harlem Renaissance author's work.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: The Sketch N Write [Pdf]
This is a PDF lesson. After studying vocabulary words or concepts that have similarities and differences, students create a two-sided Sketch-n-Write for two or more words (or concepts). On the right-hand side of the Sketch-n-Write...
Other
Educeri: Compare & Contrast the Overall Structure in Two or More Texts [Pdf]
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Parallel Structure in Pairs: Lesson 2
This lesson discusses the importance of parallel construction in pairs. Parallel sentences with comparisons or contrasts are included in the lesson. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Parallel Structure in Pairs." L.9-10.1a Parallelism
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Museum of New Zealand: Similar Artworks by John Singleton Copley
View two seated portraits by John Singleton Copley, which are suitable for comparing and contrasting similar artworks. Accompanying caption begins the analysis for you.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Story Writing With Arthur
This series of 12 downloadable activities teach students some basics of story writing, using books or videos from the PBS "Arthur" series as a springboard. Activities include creating story maps, asking questions about characters and...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Professional Writer's Models: Grade 9: Compare Play to Film
This PDF file presents a professional viewpoint on the play/film versions of "The Fantasticks" in a compare/contrast sense. Also includes questions for comprehension and understanding for students. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Teri and Jairus: Biome Buddies
This video segment from ZOOM compares and contrasts the habitat and life forms found in Death Valley with those found in the temperate rain forest of the Pacific Northwest. [3:46]
Other
Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Describe Text Structure
A short explanation of informational text structures. Follow links for more information on: chronological text structure, comparison and contrast text structure, cause and effect text structure, and problem and solution text structure....
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