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Read Works

Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Compare/contrast Genres

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[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...
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Unit Plan
CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Comparing Plants and Animals

For Students 4th - 6th
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.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: 3 Voice Storyboard: Feeling [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this PDF lesson, students study topics on which people might have differing feelings; they then create three dialogue bubbles that represent three different viewpoints: one that loves the topic, one that dislikes it, and one with a...
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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
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Is Romance Dead?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As an introduction to the medieval romances, students compare and contrast the medieval rules of courtly love to the modern "rules" of courtship and romance. Students write a compare/contrast essay after group work and class discussion.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Earth and Moon

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to compare and contrast the earth and the moon.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Punctuation Context Clues

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review how to use punctuation context clues to assist with reading comprehension. The following types of punctuation context clues are included in the lesson: definitions, synonyms, comparisons,...
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Article
Christian Science Monitor

Christian Science Monitor: Pro Tennis Players Gear Up for Surface Switches

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a sample comparison and contrast essay from a magazine. The article "Pro Tennis Players Gear Up for Surface Switches" by Suman Bandrapalli is about the grass tennis courses at Wimbledon versus other playing surfaces.
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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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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: New Leadership [Pdf]

For Teachers 8th
"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...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: It's Double Bubble Time!

For Teachers K
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.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Comparing Two Cinderella Stories

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
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Handout
US Department of Education

Literacy Information and Communication System (Lincs): Signal Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource page provides twelve long lists of signal words and what they mean. Covers signal words for continuation, change of direction, sequence, time, illustration, emphasis, cause of condition or result, spatial,...
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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 2nd - 8th Standards
This graphic organizer includes a Venn Diagram. Students will then answer a guiding question to synthesize the information on the Venn Diagram.
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Graphic
Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Compare Contrast [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This graphic organizer can be used as a response to informational texts. Students will write two topics from their informational text as a during or post-reading activity. Under each topic, students will list similarities and differences...
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Graphic
Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Compare Contrast [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
This graphic organizer can be use with students when they read an informational text. Using a Venn diagram to organize content, students will write important similarities and differences after reading an informational text and analyzing...
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Other

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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Other

Museum of New Zealand: Similar Artworks by John Singleton Copley

For Students 9th - 10th
View two seated portraits by John Singleton Copley, which are suitable for comparing and contrasting similar artworks. Accompanying caption begins the analysis for you.
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Activity
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Professional Writer's Models: Grade 9: Compare Play to Film

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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]
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 1: Identifying What Is the Same

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to identify similarities between two pictures.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Teri and Jairus: Biome Buddies

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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]
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Parallel Structure in Pairs: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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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Activity
University of Virginia Library

Prism: "What Mitosis Has to Do With Families" Visualization

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have ReadWorks' "What Mitosis Has to Do with Families." Text details related to descriptions are blue, definitions/examples are red, and comparisons/contrasts are green....
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Interactive
Museum of Modern Art

Mo Ma: Picasso: Themes and Variations

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive analysis of Picasso as printmaker explains the printmaking techniques that he put to inventive use over his long career. See close-up comparisons of his works on paper along a number of key thematic and subject-matter...

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