Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizer Teaching Resources :: 553

Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Compare and Contrast

For Students 1st - 5th Standards

A brief graphic organizer to help students visualize the similarities and differences in a piece of informational text.

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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Compare Matrix

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer uses a matrix to help students compare items or events. It is useful for helping students understand and analyze reading passages, historical events, and scientific experiments.

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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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Utah Education Network

Uen: Introducing Text Structures in Writing 5th Grade

For Teachers 5th Standards

This lesson engages students in learning about text structures. Graphic organizers are provided to assist students in planning writings that have the following text structures: problem and solution; sequence; cause and effect; and...

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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Teaching With Primary Sources

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

Five lesson plans, complete with videos, primary sources, and document-based questions (DBQ) to encourage students to utilize primary sources and incorporate thinking and writing into daily learning. Topics include: Artifact &...

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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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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Compare and Contrast Lesson: Comparing Community Helpers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th

After reading the picture book Come on, Rain by Karen Hesse, which discusses how the weather both helps and harms the community, students bring tools from home to represent what their parents do for a living. They will present these...

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Diagram It! Identifying, Comparing & Writing About Non Fiction

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Introduce your students to the different types of non-fiction such as biographies, biographies, and informative books. Students will use graphic organizers, peer interaction, and hands-on experiences to further understanding of this lesson.

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Compare Info in a Video and an Article [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th Standards

This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for comparing a video and an article about the same topic.

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Compara Y Contrasta [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards

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.

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Venn Diagram, 3 Circles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

A printable Venn Diagram with three circles to use when comparing and contrasting three things or topics. Directions on how to use this graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are also provided.

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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: The Gingerbread Boy Versus the Gingerbread Girl

For Teachers K

Students will compare and contrast parts of two stories, "The Gingerbread Boy" and "The Gingerbread Girl" with the aid of graphic organizers.

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Contrast Points of View [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 9th Standards

A graphic organizer is provided for students to use as they analyze arguments. Students will find a guiding question to answer after they complete this graphic organizer.

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: T Chart

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards

A printable T-chart for students to use when comparing two topics or two sides of one topic. Directions on how to use this graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are also provided.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Compare a Character [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to compare and contrast two characters from the story. Materials are included.[PDF]

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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Polar Bear Polar Bear

For Teachers K

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.

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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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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Who Is Little Red Riding Hood Anyway?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th

This lesson compares and contrasts the traditional Litle Red Riding Hood, by the Brothers Grimm, to Little Red Cowboy Hat, by Susan Lowell. [Requires Adobe Reader.]

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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Don't Need Friends 2nd Read

For Teachers K

In this lesson, students will engage in a second guided reading of "Don't Need Friends" by Carolyn Crimi. Students will compare and contrast elements within the story and elements between two stories.

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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Romeo and Juliet Graphic Organizer

For Teachers 9th - 10th

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart can be used after, or while reading the play and viewing video of Romeo and Juliet.

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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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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure Activities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

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...

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Compare a Story [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read two narrative texts and complete graphic organizers to compare and contrast the texts. Materials are included.

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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure Worksheets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

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;...

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