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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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CPALMS

Cpalms: Five Little Monkeys: Comparing and Contrasting

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Five little monkeys sitting on a bed or sitting in a tree? In this close reading lesson, students will compare and contrast the actions of the characters in two of Eileen Christelow's beloved books,...
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Other

Essay Transition Words: Compare and Contrast Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This reference page focuses on compare and contrast transition words including defining transitions and compare and contrast transitions, providing a list of transition words, and showing how to use transitions in writing essays.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Lesson: Compare and Contrast

For Teachers 5th Standards
In this lesson, 5th graders are asked to compare the similarities and differences between two fables, "The Three Questions" and "Fu Finds the Way." Examples of students' Venn diagrams are provided.
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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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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Comparison and Contrast Text Structure

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A reference article showing reading strategies to understand text structure of comparison and contrast.
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Informational Text: Compare Text Structures

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
This learning module focuses on comparing organizational patterns in informational texts including chronological order, compare and contrast, cause and effect, and problem and solutions. Click on each text structure for an explanation.
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Better Lesson: Polar Bear Polar Bear

For Teachers K
For this lesson, 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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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Comparing Two Fossil Localities

For Teachers 6th - 8th
During this lesson plan young scholars go on a field trip to locate fossils. Students investigate their findings and identify them using resources from the Internet. They then videoconference to compare/contrast their hypotheses with...
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Read Works

Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 3: Similarities and Differences in a Text

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to identify similarities and differences using the book Long Ago and Today by Rozanne Lanczak Williams.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Identify and Analyze Text Structure

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn how to identify the text structures of chronological/sequence, cause/effect, problem/solution, compare/contrast, description, and directions by using a list of guiding questions.
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Better Lesson: Don't Need Friends 3rd Read

For Teachers K
In this lesson, students will compare and contrast characters within the story "Don't Need Friends" by Carolyn Crimi.
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Better Lesson: Same but Different

For Teachers 1st
Today, this common student answer will be the accepted one as students try to find different ways to fill in a hexagon.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Compare and Contrast Lesson: Opposing Points of View in History

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
After reading/listening to the picture book I am the Dog I am the Cat by Donald Hall in which two characters have opposing viewpoints, students are asked to look deeply at opposing viewpoints of real people just before the Revolutionary...
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Harriet Tubman: An Informative and Impressionistic Look

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Harriet Tubman was a leading figure in the Underground Railroad movement. In this lesson, students research information about her using informative resources and look at impressionistic artwork depicting her life. Comparing informative...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creative Problem Solving With Ezra Jack Keats

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Contains plans for eight 50-minute lessons that use Ezra Jack Keats books to teach predicting, comparing and contrasting, and problem solving. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF...
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Better Lesson: Arctic v. Antarctic

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learners will be able to identify similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic. After reading and discussing books on the Arctic and Antarctic, they will use a Venn diagram and assorted images to compare and contrast...
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Better Lesson: Whose Piece Is Larger?

For Teachers 4th Standards
Fourth graders are always concerned about whether they get their equal piece when things are divided. In this lesson, 4th graders will use fraction bars to visually see how to compare fractions
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Differentiated Narrative Lesson: Two Safe Frame Choices

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This instructional activity is based on two narrative picture books that can be compared and contrasted: When I was Five by Arthur Howard and Jamie Lee Curtis' When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Old's Memoir of her Youth. Students will need...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: The Big Yellow Bus

For Teachers K
In this lesson, students will talk about two characters from The Big Yellow Bus. Students will compare and contrast these characters. Then students write about what is similar and different.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: c.s.i.: The Cory Crime Scene

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The character talked about in E. A. Robinson's poem, Richard Cory, is about a man with everything, a man that everyone wants to be like, a man who ends his own life without explanation. Singers Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, intrigued by...
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Other

Acadia University: Structure of Dna and Rna

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Acadia University provides the basic structure of DNA and RNA and a decent compare/contrast between the two.
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Yale University

Pen and the Pad: Romeo and Juliet and Westside Story

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan explains how to compare and contrast Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet with the film West Side Story.
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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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