Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Spiritual Waters

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
After analyzing primary source documents, pictures, and artifacts, students will use the describe, analyze, and interpret method to compare and contrast a sketch of Tahoe City in 1865 to a photograph of modern day Tahoe City. Then...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Similarities and Differences Between Two Text

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
In this lesson, through guided practice, the learners use two texts about Martin Luther King to compare the similarities and differences between those texts. Includes videos of the lesson in action, printable charts, and a graphic...
Graphic
Curated OER

Write Design: Graphic Organizers: Compare and Contrast

For Students 9th - 10th
Lists and describes several types of graphic organizers which fall under the "compare and contrast" mold, including the Venn diagram, T-chart, and the compare/contrast matrix.
Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Venn Diagram [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Teachers will learn how to use Venn Diagrams in their classrooms. Teachers will learn how to implement Venn Diagrams; measure progress with Venn Diagrams; and find research to support the use of Venn Diagrams. A blank Venn Diagram is...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Movie vs. Book

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson, students compare the video version of the teleplay "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" to the actual teleplay. (A teleplay is a play or script written for television.) The links to media in this lesson no longer work,...
Unit Plan
Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: A Midsummer Night's Dream

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will compare and contrast the imagery from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with other works of Shakespeare using online resources.
Lesson Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Units: 8th Grade Argumentative Writing Unit: Improving Society

For Teachers 8th Standards
Complete teaching unit for 8th Grade Argumentative Writing Unit: "Improving Society." Students will read six texts about problems in society. Throughout the unit, 8th graders will gather information from their readings in a graphic...
Lesson Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Units: 7th Grade Thematic Unit: Happiness

For Teachers 7th Standards
Complete teaching unit for 7th Grade Thematic Unit: "Happiness." Students will read 6 texts that speak to the theme of happiness. Students will revisit the essential question "How we can achieve happiness?" throughout the unit. They will...
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Other

Have Fun Teaching: Graphic Organizers: Compare and Contrast: Venn Diagram [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource is a blank Venn diagram which allows two students to illustrate what each of them likes individually and what they both like the same.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Thinking Maps the Bubble Map

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teach your students to visualize the writing process using this graphic organizer as a tool.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Text Structures

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A thirty-part learning module on text structures including description, sequence, problem and solution, compare and contrast, and cause and effect. Lessons include links to pictures, story text, informational text, videos, charts,...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Venn Diagram Rubric

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A printable three-leveled rubric for evaluating a Venn diagram in the areas of test support of comparisons, placement of statements, and number of quality statements. Directions on how to use this rubric as well as lists of teaching...
Unit Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Working With Sets and Venn Diagrams

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
A collection of activities that help students understand number relationships by using Venn diagrams to solve math problems. Practice problem solving skills in the interactive practice. Then, follow up with a classroom activity using the...
Graphic
Curated OER

Write Design: Graphic Organizers: Compare and Contrast

For Students 9th - 10th
Lists and describes several types of graphic organizers which fall under the "compare and contrast" mold, including the Venn diagram, T-chart, and the compare/contrast matrix.
Graphic
Curated OER

Write Design: Graphic Organizers: Compare and Contrast

For Students 9th - 10th
Lists and describes several types of graphic organizers which fall under the "compare and contrast" mold, including the Venn diagram, T-chart, and the compare/contrast matrix.
Graphic
Curated OER

Write Design: Graphic Organizers: Compare and Contrast

For Students 9th - 10th
Lists and describes several types of graphic organizers which fall under the "compare and contrast" mold, including the Venn diagram, T-chart, and the compare/contrast matrix.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Thinking Maps the Double Bubble

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teach your students to visualize the writing process using this graphic organizer as a tool.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Bat Versus Bird

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students compare and contrast two animals to recall learned information so they can share two facts using the informational text "The Best Nest". Included is a video explanation, a printable graphic organizer, samples of student work,...
Handout
Other

Gallaudet University: English Works: Guide to Different Types of Essays

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
English Works site has suggestions on how to write an essay to convey helpful information. This site offers examples of eight different types of essays and graphic organizers.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Character Connections

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to describe a character or compare and contrast two characters from the story. Materials are included. [PDF]